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Re: Conditional lines on sloped wedge parts 43720 and 43721
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Mon, 18 Apr 2005 22:16:26 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Ross Crawford wrote:
   In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Don Heyse wrote:
  
I’m not sure about that. The surface as it’s written is extremely lumpy, and the conditional lines work as expected given the lumps in the surface. You also get an ugly shading effect with flat shading because of those lumps.



There’s gotta be a way to cut the polys through the middle of the saddle and eliminate the problem. It looks like it might involve a ring (or torus) primative?

Well, I thought about this, and what I would try is changing the polygons thus:

If the top points are A1-5 and the bottom points are B1-5, keep the A2-B1, A3-B2 as currently, but instead of A2-B2 etc, use A3-B1, A4-B2, etc. I think that would make all the edges inside curves instead of outside, and eliminate the need for conditionals. But I’m not sure. And I dunno if it would “look right”.

OK, I tried it and realise now that it doesn’t solve the problem at all, just moves the outside curves to a different spot. I think Don is right, a more complex torus-like curve is necessary to represent it properly.

ROSCO



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  Re: Conditional lines on sloped wedge parts 43720 and 43721
 
(...) I'm pretty sure that's going to be the problem with *any* partition of this surface into polygons. Having a mathematical description of the surface would be good, because then we could potentially create a primitive for the surface, and (...) (19 years ago, 19-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)

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  Re: Conditional lines on sloped wedge parts 43720 and 43721
 
(...) Well, I thought about this, and what I would try is changing the polygons thus: If the top points are A1-5 and the bottom points are B1-5, keep the A2-B1, A3-B2 as currently, but instead of A2-B2 etc, use A3-B1, A4-B2, etc. I think that would (...) (19 years ago, 18-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)

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