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Re: What does a subpart with color=24 mean?
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Tue, 5 Sep 2006 19:26:06 GMT
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Okay... that makes sense.

But what if the contrast color for the current file's main color is just
an RGB value rather than a color index?   What should the subfile's
contrast color be set to in that case?

Thank you for your help, by the way.
>> Mark


Steve Bliss wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dev, Mark Tarrabain wrote:
> 
> > Right... but what should the contrast color be defined as within the
> > subfile?  The same?
> 
> The contrast color within the subfile would be defined in the normal way - use
> the main color for the subfile, and look up the contrast color from the color
> table.
> 
> The fact that the originating linetype 1 used color code 24 shouldn't matter by
> the time the renderer is determining the contrast color for the subfile.
> 
> for example, a simple recursive rendering function might be psuedo-coded as
> (leaving out details we don't care about):
> 
> function renderLdrawFile(fileName, mainColor) {
>    // look up edge color
>    var constrastColor = findContrastColor(mainColor)
> 
>    for each line in fileName {
>       var localColor = line.color
>       if localColor == 16 then localColor = mainColor
>       if localColor == 24 then localColor = contrastColor
>       if line.lineType == 1 {
>          renderLdrawFile(line.file, localColor)
>       }
>    }
> }
> 
> Steve



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  Re: What does a subpart with color=24 mean?
 
(...) In the case of some kind of direct color, I guess the rendering program is free to do whatever it wants. The simplest action would be to default to black (either LDraw 0, or RGB #000000). I'd be interested to hear what actual rendering (...) (20 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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(...) The contrast color within the subfile would be defined in the normal way - use the main color for the subfile, and look up the contrast color from the color table. The fact that the originating linetype 1 used color code 24 shouldn't matter by (...) (20 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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