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(...) This is _not_ a quarter ring of inner radius nine (9). This is a quarter ring of inner radius eighteen (18) and _outer_ radius twenty (20). All of the ring primitives (and the cone primitives as well) have an _outer_ radius of "[inner radius (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: New ring primative 1-4ring9
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(...) I (...) Yeah, I probably should do that, but I'm too lazy. Also I would have to update the two parts that use it also. If anybody else wants to work on they are welcome to it though. (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: New ring primative 1-4ring9
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(...) Mark, This should be scaled down by 50%, to give inner radius 9, outer radius 10. Steve (...) (24 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | New ring primative 1-4ring9 [DAT]
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Here is a new ring primitive that I use in the finalized 6002 piece. Basicly I stuck 1-4rin18 and 1-4rin19 by Steve Bliss together to create a new ring. 0 Ring 0.25 Radius 9 0 Name: 1-4ring8.dat 0 Author: Mark Kennedy 0 sumation of 1-4rin18 and (...) (24 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | New Primitive - 1-8t1013 1/8 torus, 10-inner Radius, 13-outer radius [DAT]
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Hello, Here is a new proposed primitive. It has an inner radius of 10 ldu, and an outer radius of 13 ldu. This one was created for the x516 "Sailor Epaulette" For more information on this subject, see my web "in process" web page. :-)) Paul (URL) (...) (24 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | New Primitive - 1-8t0102 1/8 torus, 1-inner Radius, 2-outer radius [DAT]
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Hello, Here is a new proposed primitive. It has an inner radius of 1 ldu, and an outer radius of 2 ldu. I have a spreadsheet that made this, so I can generate just about any size needed for a standard 16 point circle. I have been working on a (...) (24 years ago, 9-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: update for "1-8sphc.dat" [DAT]
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(...) D'OH!!! 0 1/8 Sphere Cut Off 0 Author: Franklin W. Cain (fwcain@yahoo.com) 0 Unofficial Primitive 0 0 COMMENT This figure is the intersection of 0 COMMENT a) one octant (1/8th) of a sphere 0 COMMENT whose radius is "the square root of two" 0 (...) (24 years ago, 28-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: update for "1-8sphc.dat"
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(...) Did I ever mention you should carry the decimals out to four places? Oops, sorry. Steve (24 years ago, 28-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | update for "1-8sphc.dat" [DAT]
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Let's try this again..... :-P [fx: chainsaw] I'll just carve out this MIME stuff... [/fx] [fx: jackhammer] ...And I'll just insert this DAT file (as text) at the end here... [/fx] Thanks! ;-) Franklin (...) 0 1/8 Sphere Cut Off 0 Author: Franklin W. (...) (24 years ago, 28-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: Possible replacement for 1-8sphe.dat
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(...) [snip] (...) I also believe that rendering speed isn't a big issue here. I was more curious why you believed that your tesselation was better.I happen to like the currend tesselation because I very quickly understood how to reproduce its (...) (24 years ago, 23-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: Possible replacement for 1-8sphe.dat
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"Manfred Moolhuysen" <moom@nospamchello.nl> wrote in message news:G1AHn2.3Ir@lugnet.com... (...) on (...) opinion, (...) number (...) The even distribution of points means that the polygons involved stay closer to the surface of an actual sphere at (...) (24 years ago, 22-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: Possible replacement for 1-8sphe.dat
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(...) However, if there is a general feeling that a sphere primitive with an even distibution of triangles is a far better option, I'm prepaired to withdraw my submission (made August 22th) in favour for a 4 decimal places version the primitive (...) (24 years ago, 22-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: Possible replacement for 1-8sphe.dat
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(...) Please tell me what the benefit is of your even distribution of triangles over the currend distribution whith 9 quads and 4 triangles? To my opinion, this factor alone doesn't seem to result into any severe deformations in renderings with (...) (24 years ago, 22-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: Possible replacement for 1-8sphe.dat
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(...) Following an initiative by Axel Poqué, I've resubmitted an improved version of the original 1-8sphe.dat primitive for the next update. This version still has 9 quads and 4 triangles, but coplanarity and meeting the surface of the sphere falls (...) (24 years ago, 22-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: Possible replacement for 1-8sphe.dat
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I'm sorry for breaking my reply up intp little pieces, but for an unnown reason I'm not able to post any long message to Lugnet for the past 4 days. (...) Please make that 4 decimal places, for all the other curved primitives that the 1-8sphe.dat (...) (24 years ago, 22-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: Possible replacement for 1-8sphe.dat
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(...) I think these should have 4 decimal places, as with the majority of the circular primitives. The reason for this is that there is often a need to use 3DPs in parts. Where these include circular primitives and scale them up by a factor of 10 (...) (24 years ago, 21-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: Possible replacement for 1-8sphe.dat
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"Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message news:ni4kssg6gejoaju...4ax.com... (...) on (...) files (...) I actually looked at all of the files that contain the string sphe while checking to see the results of my primitive substitution (...) (24 years ago, 21-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: Possible replacement for 1-8sphe.dat
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(...) I think your both of your files are significant improvements over the existing primitives. My only concern is the possible impact changing the primitive could have on other files, where surfaces intersect spheres, but not at the edges of the (...) (24 years ago, 21-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Alternative possible hi-res sphere primitive [DAT]
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Please read my previous post regarding a possible replacement for 1-8sphe.dat. This post will make more sense if you do. Once I got my sphere tesselation algorithm to work, it was straightforward to generate a hi-res version of the sphere primitive. (...) (24 years ago, 21-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Possible replacement for 1-8sphe.dat [DAT]
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I started a discussion on the .dev group regarding sphere tesselation a little while back, and it came out that there is some dissatisfaction with the current sphere primitive. I have finished the code which generates a replacement sphere primitive, (...) (24 years ago, 21-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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