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Re: Quick way to mirror-image a model?
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Date: 
Thu, 24 Jun 2004 21:11:29 GMT
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Oops, I missed replying to one point.

In lugnet.cad, Carl Nelson wrote:
My reservation about doing it this way is that it is exclusively tied to a
reflection matrix of (-1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1)--please see my response to your
2nd message.

If you mean (-1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1) as the 'default' matrix, my response is: that default matrix works for *any* reflection across any arbitrary plane.

If you mean (-1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1) as the reflection matrix, my response is: Don's algorithm works for *any* reflection across any arbitrary plane.

Steve



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  Re: Quick way to mirror-image a model?
 
(...) Uh, I thought we were refering to it as "Steve's algorithm". Are you having 2nd thoughts? ;^) Enjoy, Don PS. Why am I constantly seeing really long lines in the browser for this thread. It makes things really hard to read when I have to scroll (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad)
  Re: Quick way to mirror-image a model?
 
(...) Alright, I give up then. I've accomplished my original goal of mirroring a model, and I'm just confusing and frustrating myself and wasting your and Don's time with stupid questions. I've put the newest executable & source code at: (URL) (20 years ago, 25-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad)

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  Re: Quick way to mirror-image a model?
 
(...) Why process something as an exception when the default behavior is needed? It's all in what one sees as extra, unneeded code. ;-) Though I just did some timing and I don't see any performance differences between ignoring them and not. (...) (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jun-04, to lugnet.cad)

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