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Re: Minifig heads with torus primitives
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lugnet.cad.dat.parts
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Sun, 5 Sep 2004 13:41:54 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Andrew Westrate wrote:
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There’s been some discussion in the past about updating the 3626 parts to use
the torus primitives. Well, here they are (at least for some of the
patterns), now these files just need reviews on the parts tracker.
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Cool. I referenced this previous discussion:
5183
and this one:
5187
The faces themselves are still on the faceted cylinder, and moving them over
would be a LOT of work, I would imagine. But I guess my question is this: are
the little shadows at the points where the faces of the cylinder don’t match the
torus radii an acceptable compromise? You get them only at certain viewing
angles as the image with all the heads illustrates.
I tend to think maybe yes, because having a better defined rounded part of the
head seems worth that flaw.
But in the second thread Steve talked about a way to project patterns onto
cylinders (or at least more finely grained cylinder primitives that matched the
number of divisions in the torii?)
Do we want to put these through the process now and then do it again if and when
the patterns come along? I’m thinking the improvement is such that it is worth
doing, but I am not sure.
Do we then keep two versions around, or do we move to the torus primitive
versions as being the official ones, or? I think there may be some users that
would prefer to stay with the older version because it doesn’t have gaps.
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| (...) I'm pretty sure he was talking about the Y axis there. The original face geometry had the same number of segments around the Y axis, but only two segments in the Y axis, while the torus primitives have 4 segments in the Y axis. As far as I can (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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| There's been some discussion in the past about updating the 3626 parts to use the torus primitives. Well, here they are (at least for some of the patterns), now these files just need reviews on the parts tracker. (2 URLs) I haven't uploaded all of (...) (20 years ago, 4-Sep-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, FTX)
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