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Travis, I want to thank you for your help and the explaination on the rotation matrix. You can see the results in the Skeleton Torso I am about to post. I have documented your help in the file. Once again, Thanks. Dennis (24 years ago, 11-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Sphere tesselation
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(...) As far as I know, the sphere is incorrectly tesselated in Ldraw, because it has non-planar quads. So if there is ever going to be a matematical tesselation, which aproaches this form, it won't surelly be a sphere, more like "spheroid", similar (...) (24 years ago, 11-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Nope, sorry. (...) I don't think James used any particular algorithm when he selected points for the sphere p-files. At some point, I'd like to replace the sphere p-files with something better-looking. Something like the 48\1-8sphe.dat I (...) (24 years ago, 11-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Does anyone know how to perform an arbitrary sphere tesselation which ends up with the tesselation used by the LDraw sphere primitives when set to a detail level of 16 (16 being the number of facets around the circumference at the equator). I'll (...) (24 years ago, 9-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Fanzine- CAD Page? (was Re: "Needs Work"- Needs Work)
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(...) current (...) A feature of the fan-zine CAD page perhaps? If anyone was willing to write one? Other, items could include: Tool reviews and comparisons. How to - tutorials... MOC's in the CAD system- (Although I supsect most of the artwork for (...) (24 years ago, 9-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Not having actually created any parts, I can't guarantee that the information below is correct. However, my understanding of linetype 5 is that you will normally use adjacent points in your overall curved shape for the two extra points. This is easy (...) (24 years ago, 9-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) So is the hyperlink to Tom Burger's Reference Materials on (URL) a phantom link also? Chris (24 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: HELP !!! Rotating a cylinder [DAT]
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OK, here is what I came up with: 2 24 14.8 -16.4 6.1 16.8 -5 6.1 4 16 14.8 -16.4 6.1 16.8 -5 6.1 16.8 -5 -6.1 14.8 -16.4 -6.1 1 14 21.2 -11.2 0 0.547 -3.102 0 3.102 0.547 0 0 0 3.15 8-8SPHE.DAT 1 14 21.2 -11.2 0 0.379 -5.909 0 2.147 1.044 0 0 0 2.18 (...) (24 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Chris Dee" <chris_w_dee@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:G0LAn3.KJt@lugnet.com... (...) with (...) below (...) No, I'm not sure....there probably isn't. But nothing there exists yet - that's all just made up URLs....the only place that does exist (...) (24 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I get the same _Couldn't find the resource_ error with this URL as I do with (URL) Are you sure there is public access below www.ldraw.org/dev ? Chris (24 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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