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Re: Chrome Parts
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lugnet.cad
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Fri, 9 Aug 2002 14:25:07 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Travis Cobbs wrote:
> Looking at the images, it doesn't appear to matter much, but you might get
> better results if your initial rendering were at 4x (or possibly even 2x).
> The reason for this is that a 3x3 sample of a checkerboard pattern will
> result in two slightly different shades. For instance, if the two blended
> colors are blue and green, one pixel will sample 4 blue and 5 green, while
> the pixel next to it will sample 5 blue and 4 green. If you did 2x or 4x
> rendering, all the pixels would line up with the checkerboard and they would
> all sample to exactly the correct color.
Actually, my intent was that the color variation would simulate the
variable appearance of highly reflective surfaces.
> Hmm ... "cautiously optimistic" ... that's a pretty good interpretation of
> my response :-).
I sometimes often try to carefully choose my precise wordiage.
> One thing I didn't mention in my response is that it will
> almost certainly be a post-2.0 feature, assuming I get it working at all. I
> think 2.0 is rapidly approaching, though; 1.9.6 had more bug fixes than new
> features, I think, which is hopefully a good sign of stabilization.
*Sigh*. OK, I'll stop holding my breath. ;)
> Oh, and for LDView to be used in Partsref, I'm guessing you'd want to have
> an orthographic mode (which is on my list of things to try).
Err, yeah. That'd be true.
Steve
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