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(...) the (...) therefor (...) I would suggest to make the meta-commands for the renderer as simple as possible and move all other corrections to external programs or functions. I believe that what we have of BFC in MLCad for example is good enough (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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OK. I've thought about most of John's posting, and I think I'm ready to make an intelligible response. Just to be sure I caught everything, here's a (hopefully quick) re-iteration. The major differences between John's proposal and the proposal I (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) What would you suggest simplifying or removing? (...) How do you mean? What is a 'bad definition' in a matrix? Having a negative determinant? And what do you have to do to correct it? My understanding was that the rendering program could (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) That's not always possible, as has been discussed. And is still being discussed... (...) Yeah, that's a possibility. (...) OK, but that's a complication for the rendering engine. It would have to check the actual path of each file, after the (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Good point. We definitely *should* muddy this discussion up with some real facts. ;) (...) Yes and no. Something that's easy to do is definitely less of a 'requirement' than something that's a lot of work. But it's still a requirement, placed (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) oops. that should be adding the blue polygons around the edge to fill out the torso. (...) I didnt see that you had hardcoded the shield in grey... (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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You little beauty, chris. Now if we can only get the torso (the scan in the torsos plan fell through because the guy never got back to me). Could the torso be done by taking the pattern from this piece & shrinking it down a bit, then adding the edge (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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I am at a loss of speech... Thank you so much Joseph for actually downloading the HWPH file and playing around with it! I am so shocked because about a year ago I was going through all you models and getting inspiration from them! I'm just so happy (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:4qbnescr7hii5bq...4ax.com... (...) I hope it doesn't cause indigestion :-) -John Van (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New Part: Castle Shield with Black Falcon Pattern [DAT]
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Chris, I noticed another set of "bowties" along with some work-arounds. 0 4 15 4 21 -10 7 21 -10 4 23.5 -10 3 22 -10 3 15 3 22 -10 4 21 -10 4 23.5 -10 3 15 4 21 -10 4 23.5 -10 7 21 -10 0 4 0 -4 21 -10 -7 21 -10 -4 23.5 -10 -3 22 -10 3 0 -3 22 -10 -4 (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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Hi Brian, Brian Sauls <barbcue@nospam.home.com> wrote in a message: FsIo7L.7qH@lugnet.com... (...) of (...) The whole design I got from the accient town walls (and city) of Rothenburg o.d. Tauber in Germay. The town walls are of that height, because (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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I just had to play around with this terrific model by Mladen Pejic (URL) dropped the heavy armaments and changed colors to a black-and-white police type cruiser. Please note that this is an original design by Mladen Pejic. 0 Name: PHELI.DAT 0 (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:v96neskqugbi18b...4ax.com... (...) use to (...) object (it (...) faces (...) choose (...) in some (...) required to (...) the (...) You make a very good point here, Steve (especially (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I need to digest this. I'll respond tomorrow. Steve (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Rui, I think that it's better to keep the 4-4disc and 2-4disc files the way they are. The current configuration is more flexible, requires fewer special-size primitives, and is less likely to be mis-applied. The new proposal would only provide a (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Chris, When I display this DAT file in MLCAD, I get a couple of "bowties". I've taken the liberty of finding the errant lines and providing solutions for them. 0 4 16 15 7 -10 18.72 6.03 -10 14.93 15.68 -10 12 14 -10 4 16 18.72 6.03 -10 15 7 -10 (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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Chris, When I display this DAT file in MLCAD, I get a couple of "bowties". I took the liberty of finding the errant lines and finding a solution for them. 0 4 6 15 7 -10 18.72 6.03 -10 14.93 15.68 -10 12 14 -10 4 6 18.72 6.03 -10 15 7 -10 14.93 (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) You'd have to ask James these questions. Only he would know. It *looks* like the non-planar quads could be a rounding error, or rounding limitation, since he used just 2 decimal places. Steve (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Another of the easier shields (putting off figuring out the fine detail of the dragon and lion motifs !) 0 FILE 3846P02.dat 0 Castle Shield with Wolfpack Pattern 0 Name: 3846p02.DAT 0 Author: Chris Dee (chris_w_dee@hotmail.com) 0 Unofficial Element (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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Chuck Sommerville <chucks@he.net> wrote in message news:FsK824.2vK@lugnet.com... (...) I was talking about rendering engines like LDLite, MLCad, L3Lab, etc. You are correct that BFC won't help ray tracing. The big thing that would help ray tracing (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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