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Re: LDraw File Format Spec 1.0 DRAFT - Call for Public Comments
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Date: 
Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:23:39 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Travis Cobbs wrote:
I'm not sure yet what we on the LSC will decide with respect to concave quads.

Keep in mind, the original LDraw tool treats concave quads as triangles,
effectively ignoring the contained vertex.

So, by the 0.27 "spec", concave quads are inappropriate.  Which can be
translated as they are disallowed, but the renderer copes as it can.

Steve



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  Re: LDraw File Format Spec 1.0 DRAFT - Call for Public Comments
 
(...) I'm not sure yet what we on the LSC will decide with respect to concave quads. It may be that we'll change that paragraph to a recommendation. I personally don't like them, but I can see Orion's point. I may write a utility program to (...) (17 years ago, 21-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad)

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