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  Re: Announcing the book "Lego Software Powertools"
 
This is very cool, I see from the TOC that there are lots of plugs for our favorite LEGO web pages as well...nice. Was there any issue with putting all of the different freeware on a disk? I though Tim had tried this once before but ran into some (...) (22 years ago, 12-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.books, lugnet.general)
 
  Re: Why should parts not have vertices lying along edges?
 
(...) I wouldn't ignore it lightly as it can have many adverse effects. You get little holes from from the roundoff errors. You can also see it in lighting problems with more advanced renderers such as ldview and POV. Here's an old example of the (...) (22 years ago, 12-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: what about new (and old) colours?
 
(...) Right the reference is here: (URL) Todd gets around to posting the POV code, I'd use this: (URL) (22 years ago, 12-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
 
  Re: Why should parts not have vertices lying along edges?
 
(...) My opinion is that this isn't a significant enough problem to worry about. Further more, I consider this is a renderer limitation and not a problem with the part itself. Therefore, feel free to ignore this if it suits your purposes. -Orion (22 years ago, 12-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: Rendering over lan?
 
There is another way, but it's not for the feint of heart. It's distributed raytracing. People have hacked pov and made it run across multiple machines. I'm not sure if it's actually been done on Windows OSs yet, bet it has worked for other people (...) (22 years ago, 12-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)


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