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(...) Hi Lars. Hey, I've got an idea. Stop adding new features (for a little while) and just release it. ;^) Pretty please with extra sugar? (...) Nifty solution, but what if someone looks down the hose and sees it's all blocked up with spheres so (...) (20 years ago, 7-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) (snip) (...) I'll add 4-4cyls.dat, so that shouldn't hold you back. Also, in the coming version you can add primitives yourself. (...) Another way to achieve no overlap is the method I used in 30093.dat "Plant See Grass": I simply placed (...) (20 years ago, 7-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) OK, here's my VERY LAST word on the subject: Transforming both 4-4cyls S0-S1 and vector S1-S2: Rotate about Y by beta until S0-S1 lies in the YZ plane Rotate about X by gamma until S0-S1 coincides with +Z Rotate about Z by delta until S1-S2 (...) (20 years ago, 7-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Ooooops, I see now I was totally barking up the wrong tree, you need to WORK OUT the alpha angle, sorry. But transforming the co-ordinate system should still work. ROSCO (20 years ago, 6-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Or maybe another way to look at it (got this from old lecture notes): Goal: rotate about arbitrary vector A by alpha Idea: we know how to rotate about X,Y,Z So, rotate about Y by beta until A lies in the YZ plane Then rotate about X by gamma (...) (20 years ago, 6-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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