![](/news/x.gif) | | Non-colanar quads question
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I'm fixing the Perl code that generates the curved surface of the Half [1] Onion Dome (part 44511) from its control data. At the moment the surface comprises counter-clockwise wound quads (ABCD) [3] and conditional lines (AB, BC, CD and DA). (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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![](/news/x.gif) | | Re: Non-coplanar quads question
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DOH! Who stole the P? (21 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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![](/news/x.gif) | | Re: Non-colanar quads question
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(...) Be careful with that. You could also replace it with triangles (ABD and DBC) using the other diagonal. I think one way will give you a nice convex exterior and the other way will create all sorts of nasty concavities. You can do some origami (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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