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Re: unofficial new primitive -- "Rounded Corner"
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lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives
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Fri, 15 Sep 2000 02:09:55 GMT
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Ooo, cool. That means each of the colored faces in your image is a
1-4disc.dat, right?
That'll work very nicely. I'll forward this to the primitives committee. Do
you mind if I use it in the skeleton leg file?
Steve
In lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives, Franklin W. Cain writes:
> > It is not part of a sphere.
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> UPDATE!
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> It _is_ part of a sphere, I just realized,
> a sphere having a radius of "the square root of 2"!
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> This primitive is one octant of that sphere
> with three faces "planed/smoothed off"
> so that the resulting object will fit
> inside a cube having a length of "1".
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> Thanks,
> Franklin
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> > It can be thought of as a virtual cube
> > which has had one corner sliced away
> > in a curved fashion. Or to put it another way,
> > it is the grey area in this image:
> > "http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/fwcain/lcad/round-corner.gif"
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