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Re: Part Authors: opinions sought on T-Junctions
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lugnet.cad.dat.parts
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Tue, 6 Mar 2007 22:01:56 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Travis Cobbs wrote:
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Don Heyse wrote:
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Well... Technically it is true. The rendering program ought to be
able to scan all the points in each part and look for intersections
with every edge in the part. Then break up the offensive T-joins
automagically and render it perfectly. That’s only O(n^2) or so.
Blink of an eye on today’s processors.
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OK, I stand corrected. Technically a program can fix things at load time.
However, you might be surprised at how long it takes. It’s “only” O(n^2),
but each iteration is slow. You have to search the current line segment
against all other line segments in the part, and find any partial overlaps.
And n in this case is the total number of points in the entire part, not
just the current file, since it’s perfectly valid for things to blend across
sub-part/primitive boundaries (look at where the studs meet the main body of
the 2x2 round brick).
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Doesn’t ldview do this already? I’m sure txt2dat does. Try to be
a little more up to date, will ya? ;^)
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Assuming txt2dat does this, bear in mind that it doesn’t really have to be
all that fast, since it gets run once and the generated data then gets used
as often as needed....
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blah, blah, blah, snip
Oops, I was trying to be all ironical in a geeky math sorta way. But
apparently I failed. Guess I shoulda used more winkies... Do people
still use winkies? Or have they gone obsolete like ASCII art?
Anyhow, sorry about that. Have fun,
Don
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| (...) OK, I stand corrected. Technically a program can fix things a load time. However, you might be surprised at how long it takes. It's "only" O(n^2), but each iteration is slow. You have to search the current line segment against all other line (...) (17 years ago, 6-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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