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Re: Performance enhanced 4-4disc.dat
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Date: 
Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:16:37 GMT
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Most programs that use DAT files as the sources file for a rendered image
break all the quads into triangles anyway.  Technically, this change would
slow down the conversion process (though you would need a *lot* of studs)

And for this very reason, I (repeatedly) voted to "Hold" such primitives on the
Tracker when they were uploaded, and will do so again (if necessary)...

(Sorry, but I'm currently in the second day of a sinus migraine, and aspirin
hasn't been helping...)

Franklin



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  Re: Performance enhanced 4-4disc.dat
 
Hi Orion and Franklin, (...) Be sure I carefully consider opposition. I would not submit these primitives against general consent. I have made empirical measurements. I have found about 2 percent speed increase when model has many studs (yellow (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)

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  Re: Performance enhanced 4-4disc.dat
 
(...) Most programs that use DAT files as the sources file for a rendered image break all the quads into triangles anyway. Technically, this change would slow down the conversion process (though you would need a *lot* of studs) -Orion (22 years ago, 14-Jul-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)

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