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Re: Question: polygons filling a t-shape
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lugnet.cad
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Fri, 5 Dec 2003 13:15:22 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Lars C. Hassing wrote:
> I believe quads are mainly a convenient shortcut for making rectangular surfaces.
> If you are in the process of subdividing a polygon there's no reason to search for
> triangles that can be paired into a quad (though it saves a few bytes of file size).
Actually, with LDraw code, reducing triangle pairs to quads reduces that section of
code by 35% (more-or-less). If you've got a lot of surfaces, that's not an
insignificant savings of bytes.
Steve
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 | | Re: Question: polygons filling a t-shape
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| (...) Yes, L3P detects and warns about the collinear points of the quad. In the case of splitting the T why don't you just use triangles? The renderers do that anyway, but then you can take control of the splitting. I believe quads are mainly a (...) (21 years ago, 4-Dec-03, to lugnet.cad)
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