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Re: Taking shortcuts
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lugnet.cad
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Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:34:14 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Roland Melkert wrote:
> I'm not a part author, but from a rendering engine author's point of view.
> Those kind of overlaps can cause very ugly artifacts during rendering, so
> imho saving a couple of bytes (on harddrives containing 1.000.000.000.000
> bytes these days!) is not worth it.
I've never really understood that either. Okay, my first computer came with a
16GB hard drive, so yeah, space was pretty cramped then. My second computer
came with a 100GB hard drive, but even after I bought that I was still seeing
people getting all tied up in a knot over how large an LDraw part file was vs.
how large they thought it should be. Currently, I've got a netbook with a 16GB
SSD (the circle is complete!), and I keep my LDraw stuff stored on a 32GB SD
card. My entire LDraw library, including both parts and models, only uses up
about 223MB. At this rate, that SD card should crumble to dust before I need to
worry about running out of space, provided people don't start intentionally
bloating their part files by doing stuff like coding the entire part instead of
using primitives and such.
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| (...) My first PC had no hard drives, just two 360 kb floppy drives. One for the OS and the other for applications and documents. My second PC had a 10 Mb hard drive that took the physical space of two 5 1/4" drives. The Michelangelo virus took its (...) (14 years ago, 20-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) I'm not a part author, but from a rendering engine author's point of view. Those kind of overlaps can cause very ugly artifacts during rendering, so imho saving a couple of bytes (on harddrives containing 1.000.000.000.000 bytes these days!) (...) (14 years ago, 20-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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