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(...) LDAO writes those entries to ldraw.ini. I'm not sure if any other programs update that section or not. The "Oblique" view is the default view for LDraw, and was also used for LDLite (I think) and L3Lab. "UpsideDown" is derived from "Oblique". (...) (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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OK now we're getting somewhere. Thanks for providing the exact mathematical representations of those numbers. Now I'm gonna have to figure out how you calculated them. :-) (I just had the computer do the work and print out the decimal (...) (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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(...) You're right, I haven't thought of that. Well, you get the general idea. It would be 3 parallel bands of quads along the perimeter, and the rest diveded proportionaly. Generating this is fairly easy in my cad program, and I can use the (...) (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 believe the matrix happens to produce a standard isometric view, but doesn't do so in the traditional 3D graphics way of rotation. This means that in addition to not looking right after rotation, it also doens't produce correct results when you (...) (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:G1wK2M.6ry@lugnet.com... (...) closely, (...) primitive. (...) It does look good, but it is actually a 32 tesselation, not a 48 (32 segments around the equator of an entire sphere). (...) (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad)
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