The answer to the original question is Zero. All the polgons we experience are balanced by an equivalent number of anti-polygons. These are the ‘dark matter’ proposed by scientists to explain the structure and behaviour of galaxies. They are ‘dark’ (ie invisible) because their normals aren’t errr normal.
Obvious, really.
If we do indeed sculpt in a universe of critical density then it will all eventualy collapse back to a single vertice, or singularity. When that happens the forces, not star wars forces will unify.
The answer to the original question is Zero
…following the John Archibald Wheeler theory of multiple Univers 
Moochie: this is cheating :D, although anti-polys do exist they not count -1, at least not until they annihilate with the ‘good’ ones (the big crunch), by that time noone of us will be speculating on this (but we will all be makin a toast at the Restaurant at the end of the universe 
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Aurick: this is really too eZ! I want to work at pixologic! I know C++ quite well! Just need a flat in SF…
You’re all wrong. Acturally it would be one great big huge NGon.
Actually I made you all up in my head so none of you really exist at all therefore a pixol is just a word and polygons are little candies made by Willy Wonka.
if the universe is continually expanding…do polygons get bigger or does the dude or dudette in charge use zbrush to make a difference mesh?
Aminuts:
Actually I made you all up in my head so none of you really exist at all
You have a very devious mind then 
Humpa Lumpa dumpa dee doo
Humpa Lumpa dumpa dee doo
Humpa Lumpa dumpa dee doo
Humpa Lumpa dumpa dee doo
Oompa!
silly mammals.
Antimorpholygon:
Oompa Loompa! sorry…
Woody: “You’re all wrong. Acturally it would be one great big huge NGon.”
like the Allen one you’re obsessed by this paranoid worldwide conspiracy… just relax! there’s no big NGon controlling our minds:eek:
:lol:
That was true about five years ago, but NURBS are dead man. Nobody uses them any more. 
There’s one important thing that we’re not getting at here though. What subdivision level are we talking about?
bill! To tell you the truth during this christmas time I probably hit ctrl-D a couple of times because I am lots of polys more than before
79->81 Kg!
I would hate to be the guy who had to texture it.
If you then had to texture the universe, what mapping would you use, UVTile, GUVTile, or the boring Planar mapping?
I think you’d need particle effects too. And lots and lots of volumetric shaders and SSS.
And beer.
uhm, i think I would paint each single face separately, this would be so much fun!!!
EDIT and each face with a 4k texture
how do you texture something that doesn’t exist?
Now we’ve come full circle…because texturing the universe with Zbrush would be soooooooo easy.
I have lots of star alphas…I’d get Jantim to mix me up some super universe type materials…have Marcus write me a script to make it faster …and then get Aurick to tell me what size texture to use…
easy as 1, 2, Z
Word.