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Subject: 
Primitives to Hi-Res or not...
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Tue, 25 Jan 2000 02:33:22 GMT
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Ok, Can some one tell me where we are heading with these Hi-Res primitives.

Today I created the Hi-Res versions of several of the "normal" primitives.
Then I edited the main "normal" ones to use the Hi-Res instead. WOW!

There was about a 10-20% slowdown. Not too bad as long as the model wasn't too
large.
Will this cause a problem with renering POV? So far I have not been patient
enough to get the dat files converted into a POV'able file. I have tried, just
not succeeded yet.

I welcome all comments,

Paul



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Primitives to Hi-Res or not...
 
(...) My opinion is that we do need high res circular primitives (edge, disc, cyli, etc) in cases where the part includes curves/surfaces with a significantly larger diameter than 'usual'. The good old STUD.dat (and its familiy) looks OK with 16 (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
  Re: Primitives to Hi-Res or not...
 
Paul Easter wrote about Hi-Res primitives: (...) L3P will correctly render any DAT file. But it will not substitute any Hi-Res primitives until I release the next version. I did program Hi-Res support in June 1999, so I guess it's about time for a (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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