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(...) It's not always this easy. Some parts just cannot be constructed out of the primitives - or the scaling/transformation is just too difficult to figure out. Examples are those with complex curves (like the wizard's hat), or complex (...) (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 1-8sphe.dat tesselations compaire image
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"Manfred Moolhuysen" <moom@nospamchello.nl> wrote in message news:G1w9FL.Csy@lugnet.com... (...) made (...) should do (...) No: they never reached the point of actually generating a sphere for anything past the standard tesselation. All the higher (...) (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Once again I dit it! :)
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(...) (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Unusual View matrices in LDRAW.INI
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(...) I don't know their origin, but you're right, there's a shear component in them. Here's what a matrix decomposition shows: (...) Scale : (1.5, 0.942809, 1.41421, 0) Rotate : (0.321751, 0.729728, 0.463648, 0) Translate : (0, 0, 0, 0) Shear : (...) (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: part skins (was Re: some thoughts on ldraw parts)
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(...) You are correct on both points. The primary value of the tool at this point is that it removes the tedium of defining polygons to connect vertices. It's a start! (...) Your edge-detection suggestion is certainly the ideal, but would get a bit (...) (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: MLCad can't find new parts
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Did you run MKLIST? (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: More tips for L3P
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(...) Move L3P.exe to a different directory, for instance C:\Pov, and change the path reference in the last line of L3P.bat accordingly. This way you can still use way the DOS-window openened with the shortcut for L3P for running Ldraw.exe also. (...) (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I downloaded the latest parts update and added the parts to my Ldraw\parts directory as well as to Parts.LST. I went into MLCad and wanted to select a new part, just to see if it worked, and the part was not in the list dialogue box or in the side (...) (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: part skins (was Re: some thoughts on ldraw parts)
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(...) Cool beans! (...) Define "feed" in this context... an ordered vertex list? That's still hard to do, what is needed is an app that lets me create these regions superimposed on a bitmap. (...) Er, ah, kind of like that. (...) I think this is an (...) (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Another license draft
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Sorry it's taken me so long to get back to this -- I've been too busy to really dig into it. Overall, I think this is a decent *redistribution* license. It does not address: 1. The agreement(s) between the contributors and ldraw.org. 2. The fact (...) (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Where is the 2x1 plate?
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(...) For most parts. In slopes, the dimension across the primary slope face is listed first. So regular 45-degree slope-bricks will always be described as 2xN. Less regular 45-degree slope-bricks have a different leading number, because of multiple (...) (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Thanks for pointing this out. I can't check into this right now -- I'm wondering if there's some obscure reason behind this (besides me not being careful) -- but I will delve into the matter ASAP. Steve (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Unusual View matrices in LDRAW.INI
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Hey, does anybody out there know the origin of the "Oblique", "UpsideDown", and "Natural" viewing matrices in LDRAW.INI. I'm not sure whether these came from LDAO, LDLITE, or perhaps even LDRAW? Wherever they came from, they don't seem to be pure (...) (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LCad Parts Update 2000-02 Now Available
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(...) Now that the update is available, will the parts reference on lugnet updated as well? The web reference is a really nice feature ;-) Regards, Hakan (...) (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: More tips for L3P
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(...) The problem is the first one you listed: L3P.bat and L3P.exe are in the same directory. C:\Ldraw\L3P.bat C:\Ldraw\L3P.exe How should I separate them so L3P.bat will be found first? --Ryan Lugnet member #517 E-mail: Ryanjf2@juno.com Amateur (...) (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 1-8sphe.dat tesselations compaire image
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(...) Travis, what do you think about this: (please take a look at the following image) (URL) tesselation matches the existing normal 1-8sphe.dat tesselation closely, all "even" points are identical to the points in the normal 1-8sphe primitive. (...) (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: part skins (was Re: some thoughts on ldraw parts)
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(...) Yes indeedy, and coincidentally I slung together the beginnings of such a program tonight. You feed it the outlines of the features of the printed element, along with a "color seed" inside each colored region, and it generates the triangles (...) (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 1-8sphe.dat tesselations compaire image
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(...) Travis, do you save any results of the variation trials ? I think we should do the same thing here, make a compaire image of the different possible variations and decide wich one looks the best (before you start generating those type 5 lines). (...) (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Sehr Schnell Catalog Expands
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First, I'd like to thank everyone who voted for the Sehr Schnell Supertuning site last week for the "Cool Lego Site of the Week". Unfortunately the site didn't win, fortunately Todd saw fit to keep me on the ballot for this week, so stop by again... (...) (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: 1-8sphe.dat tesselations compaire image
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"Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message news:6alktscro14u6dr...4ax.com... (...) Quite frankly, I have no idea what a 48 version would look like that followed James' approach. Would there be a single row of quads with the rest being (...) (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad)
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