diff --git a/vcg/complex/algorithms/update/flag.h b/vcg/complex/algorithms/update/flag.h
index 9ac28615..3d258cba 100644
--- a/vcg/complex/algorithms/update/flag.h
+++ b/vcg/complex/algorithms/update/flag.h
@@ -337,24 +337,6 @@ static void VertexBorderFromNone(MeshType &m)
 	}
 }
 
-/// This function fill the flags with the info on what is the best projection direction
-/// for a given face. Used by the point-face distance function when do not exploiting pre-computed 
-/// per-face data (the so called edge component)  
-static void FaceProjection(MeshType &m)
-{
-	FaceIterator fi;
-	for(fi=m.face.begin();fi!=m.face.end();++fi)			// Lo riempio con i dati delle facce
-		if( ! (*fi).IsD() )
-		{
-			ScalarType nx = math::Abs((*fi).cN()[0]);
-			ScalarType ny = math::Abs((*fi).cN()[1]);
-			ScalarType nz = math::Abs((*fi).cN()[2]);
-			if(nx>ny && nx>nz) { (*fi).Flags() |= FaceType::NORMX; }
-			else if(ny>nz)     { (*fi).Flags() |= FaceType::NORMY; }
-			else               { (*fi).Flags() |= FaceType::NORMZ; }
-		}
-}
-
 /// Computes per-face border flags without requiring any kind of topology 
 /// It has a O(fn log fn) complexity. 
 static void FaceBorderFromNone(MeshType &m)