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Travis, here is a low res version of your sphere primitive. I moved the type 5 lines from the edge into the other sphere primitives, as to prevent them from showing up when it placed against a torus. I could move the edge lines back into the file if (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: Low res 1-8 sphere primitve
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(...) of (...) Where (what part) has a (hemi)sphere against a torus? Also, wouldn't you *want* the edge lines to display in this case (when viewed at the proper angle)? ROSCO (23 years ago, 7-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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(...) I have two comments. The first is that while I prefer my sphere tesselation to the standard one (and presumably you do also :-), a number of people prefer the standard one. I think that a vote of some sort might be in order before replacing (...) (23 years ago, 7-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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(...) FWIW I also like the new one better. (...) I agree. The type 5 lines from the edges belong in the file. See here for my convoluted and poorly written reasoning. (URL) (23 years ago, 7-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: Low res 1-8 sphere primitve
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(...) 5 (...) from (...) of (...) Okay, I will add them back in. This will also make them unnecessarry for the larger versions. (23 years ago, 8-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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(...) I'm not sure I understand why they'd be unnecessary for the larger versions. I thought the idea was that ALL these primitives would have type 5 lines at the edges, but they would be extended in the tangent plane and thus only do half the job, (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: Low res 1-8 sphere primitve
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(...) He put in the type 5 lines at the joins between the eighth spheres in the n-8sphe files (where n > 1). So he put a set in the one join of the 2-8sphe.dat, 4 sets in the 4-8sphe.dat, and 12 sets in the 8-8sphe.dat. So instead of just being type (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: Low res 1-8 sphere primitve
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(...) I'm an idiot, but I think I understand now. The larger *sphe.dat files must simply include of a bunch of 1-8sphe.dat instances as type 1 lines. So yes, you only need the type 5 edge lines in the 1-8sphe.dat file if it's made right. Don (23 years ago, 8-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: Low res 1-8 sphere primitve
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(...) 5's. (...) Yup, that's what I did. (...) (23 years ago, 9-May-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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