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Is there any benefit...
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Date: 
Wed, 23 May 2001 16:13:26 GMT
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I've noticed that a number of older DAT files could be steamlined (that is,
rendered using far fewer lines) by application of box.dat and rect.dat
primitives rather than a series of linetypes 2 and 4.  Is there any merit in
doing this, such as quicker rendering time?

     Dave!



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  Re: Is there any benefit...
 
(...) The main advantage would be saving a few bytes of file space. Which is most significant to the download process, since we've got about 3MB of data, between ldraw.exe and complete.exe. The rendering time would be *mostly* unaffected. On the on (...) (24 years ago, 24-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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