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(...) LDraw code? With a circular shape having 16 segments, not eight as in your diagrams. If you think that is simpler for the parts authors (or that it requires a "tiny extra effort") as compared to superimposing a quad and a disc (two lines of (...) (24 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | the parts 754.dat and 756.dat in the 8.5L hose
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Hi, I've been working a bit with flexible hoses lately, and I've noticed an odd thing about the parts which make up the bent version of the 8.5L flexible hose. The part 754.dat (URL) used as a hose segment, about 50 of them go into a single hose. (...) (24 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-01
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(...) Auch, another error? Thank you, Lars, I'll fix it and send it to Steve Bliss, hopefully making it to the next update. Fredrik (24 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Help for povray needed!
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(...) <SNIP> Thanks, this helps a lot, but now there is one problem left: MLCad first creates the dat file to be converted, than calls L3P to convert it into pov and than it executes pov-ray with the above statement. If you do that for multiple (...) (24 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | L3Lab and BFC
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I have been very busy for the past weeks (tearing down a brick fireplace (real bricks :-) and a 20 feet chimney, painting ceilings and walls, the Sping has really put ideas into my wife's head :-), but last night I finally got some time for myself. (...) (24 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Some Words To BFC
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Steve Bliss wrote on April 6th... (...) The program should refuse to certify a part if not all subfiles are certified. (...) Agreed! We should not put any constraints on the authors. They may scale/rotate/mirror primitives as they wish (not (...) (24 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Performance Improvement
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Damien Duquennoy wrote... (...) L3Lab draws a quad as two triangles. You can see this yourself, when you turn off dither-transparency and use true transparency. Because the two triangles share a side, the quad-division line gets drawn twice and is (...) (24 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Problem with BFC
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Damien Duquennoy wrote... (...) Your parts renders OK in L3Lab with BFC enabled. /Lars (24 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Comments on parts up for vote- Pt 1
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Chris Dee wrote... (...) "L3P -check" has always been able to spot singular matrices, simply because POV cannot handle them. L3Lab uses the same file parser as L3P (which BTW is public available in ldglite). However, L3Lab could easily render edge (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BFC: LITS 2
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Steve Bliss wrote... (...) Running "l3p -check" (checks all DAT's in P and PARTS) revals: SKIPPING "4285.DAT" Line 981: Singular matrix: 1 16 10 4 10 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 1-4cyli.dat SKIPPING "6043.DAT" Line 17: Singular matrix: 1 16 0 20 -16 8 0 0 0 0 (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: open source & inventory ?
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Jonathan Wilson wrote... (...) Don Heyse has published source for ldglite, an OpenGL extension of ldlite for Windows/Linux/Mac using L3 parser/viewer at (URL) Zide has published the source for LeoCAD, see (URL) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Problem with 1-4con1.dat
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John VanZwieten wrote... (...) Yes, already made. I just need to update the colors. BTW, what is the LDraw color for the smoke-colored transparent SW cockpit (32?), and does anyone have a good POV color for it? /Lars (24 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-01
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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 (...) (24 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 (...) (24 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 (...) (24 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 (...) (24 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 (...) (24 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 (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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