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In lugnet.announce.moc, Jim DeVona wrote:
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The other night I built an alternate ship using the pieces from my new B-Wing
kit.
What do you think?
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I like the ship, and especially that you’ve done it up in LDraw on the Mac.
Cool. I’ll have to leave any other comments to the starwars and building
experts though.
What I really like about that particular cad picture is the way it
highlights the fix for a problem that’s been bugging me about some of
the parts for a while. I hope you don’t mind if I hijack a fork off
of your post to talk about it a bit.
If you look at the picture you can see some of the convex curved slopes
have a bit of a tiger striping pattern when shaded. But there’s also
an upside down dark gray convex curved slope part that doesn’t have the
problem. The good part uses a fan design to lay out the triangles so
they all meet at one point where the convex curve flattens out. The
bad design uses a zig zag pattern of triangles with lots of extra points
along a straight edge. It looks bad and uses extra points. Double plus
bad! Part designers, take note. Actually, I could swear there already
was, once upon a time, a mention in some part design guide somewhere
about not adding extra points along a straight edge.
Anyhow, have fun,
Don
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| (...) Hi Don, That problem has bugged me for a while but I didn't realise there was such a simple solution to it. I imagine that something similar can be done where both edges are curves by setting up shells along the double curves. Now I'm off the (...) (18 years ago, 8-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| (...) I have to wonder if I'm partially to blame. Perhaps the part author was using LDView (thumbnail is linked to bigger image, generated by LDView): (URL) Everything looks great there. --Travis (18 years ago, 8-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| (...) Thanks! I enjoy recording models in LDraw after I've made them because the process of methodically disassembling and reassembling them for input is very different from the casual way I initially build them. It's just sort of fun to look at a (...) (18 years ago, 9-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Alternate 6208 B-Wing Escort Fighter
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| Hi! The other night I built an alternate ship using the pieces from my new B-Wing kit. (Admittedly, I'm a wee bit late for last year's (URL) B-Wing alternate model contest>.) Although I haven't prepared instructions for it - something I plan to do (...) (18 years ago, 8-Feb-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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