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Thanks Steve for your great work. Beside the 476 bow-ties, the next L3P version would like to comment: WARNING "X44.DAT" Line 127: Identical to line 40: 5 24 0 -7 -6 0 -9 -7 2.68 -6.47 -6 -2.68 -6.47 -6 WARNING "X44.DAT" Line 142: Identical to line (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Which submitted parts have been put on hold ?
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Steve, in lugnet.cad.dev, you wrote: [snip] (...) [snip] I'm one of the unlucky victims who's parts didn't make it into this vote. Although I'm not happy with it, I respect your motivations. I'm sure putting up this voting round was complicated (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-01
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(...) Maybe he meant something like: (URL) or (URL) And as you can see, not more polygons, but actually less. as a rule of tumb, "less points implies less polys". NOTE: both examples could be even more simplified (less points) if we removed the disc (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-01
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(...) complete half disc: It would obviously be better to use a half disc in the first place. What John meant above was, if I understood him correctly, a disc with a diameter larger than the quad's height. That way, the problem is non-trivial, and (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Help for povray needed!
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You probably want something like : povengine /RENDER <filename> /NR /EXIT Here is a copy of the docs from POV3.1 concerning this: Special Command-Line Options POV-Ray for Windows supports several special command-line options not recognized by other (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-01
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(...) This depends only on the actual part, the point of view and in which order the overlapping polys are given (also depends on view). (...) Not exactly, see what I mean in the following example image: (URL) points are marked in RED 1 - Quad and a (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-01
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Some more comments on parts ! Maybe I will repeat some other notes, I don't know, I haven't checked all the other mails to compare, so here goes nothing. - [2466p07.dat] This part as 2 bowtie quads in the front panel See the following image: (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Help for povray needed!
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Hy, I'm currently writing an enhanced export function for MLCad and had the idea to include povray into the export process. My question: is there any way to start povray (for Windows 3.1) from the command-line to just generate a picture for an (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | 2000-01 Voting Closing Soon
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The votes have been trickling in. If you want to make your opinion known, please vote soon! I will probably be taking the vote-page down tomorrow night. That's Tuesday, April 18th. If you have fixes for any of your parts that you want included in (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Performance Improvement
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(...) Usually software Renderers internally use only triangles, because it simplifies the rendering algorythm, but in an hardware renderer, you can't be sure, it depends much on the hardware architecture. There a few hardware renderers which also (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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