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"Rui Martins" <Rui.Martins@link.pt> wrote in message news:Pine.GSU.4.10.1...0@is-sv... (...) ends (...) a (...) circumference (...) sphere, (...) it has (...) this (...) sphere, (...) Actually, I don't believe the existing one is quite a sphere. I (...) (24 years ago, 11-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message news:ppnprssksi9anl3...4ax.com... (...) How did you generate this file? It certainly looks like it was algorithmically generated. Don't tell me you figured out all those points BY HAND? I did (...) (24 years ago, 11-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I've corrected this now and sent the correction to Steve Bliss. Thanks again for your comment. Fredrik PS: A change of the motherboard fixed my computer. This was very easy to fix -- the difficult part was to find out which component was (...) (24 years ago, 11-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I posted the Skeleton Torso in lugnet.cad.dat.parts Dennis (24 years ago, 11-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message news:qn1arso26cua6dm...4ax.com... (...) Like Chris, I spent probably an hour rotating, inverting, skewing the cyls.dat primitives before coming to the conclusion that I needed something else. I (...) (24 years ago, 11-Sep-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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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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(...) 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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