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Re: An interesting CAD image
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Date: 
Fri, 10 Aug 2001 04:40:54 GMT
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Tim Courtney wrote:
In lugnet.cad.dev, Gary Williams writes:
http://gw.ro/lego/gwcad/7.gif

This image shows James Jessiman's car.dat file with every part marked as
"selected" in GWCAD.  The result is that the car resembles an auto • magazine
ad in which parts of the vehicle are displayed semi-translucent so • callouts
can be drawn to all the advanced interior features.  Somehow I found this
image striking.

Niftyness :-)

I set the image as my desktop wallpaper.  Doesn't help that I run the same
scree res and I think I have a window maximized when I look at it ;-)

BTW - notice it appears James forgot the back right wheel on the car.

The right rear wheel is in fact there, but it doesn't appear in this
rendering.  That seems to be an artifact of how the rendering was produced.
If part #2 comes in front of part #1, it will be drawn transparently on top;
but if part #2 comes behind part #1, it will _not_ be drawn because it's
further back in the Z-order.

If I view the model from the bottom, only the bottom and the wheels are
visible, since they get drawn first and are also the closest parts to the
viewer.

I suppose I could re-sequence the parts so the ones with insertion points
furthest away get drawn first.  I'll think about it some more after I've got
the rest of the program working.

I like the effect - keep it as a part of GWCAD if you can, perhaps as a
render option...

I can't wait for the working program!!

I expect to have isometric part movement working sometime over the next
three days, using the method demonstrated with my proof-of-concept
executable #1, but adapted to work from any of the eight isometric views.
After that, development should proceed at a much more rapid pace.

-Gary



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  Re: An interesting CAD image
 
(...) produced. (...) top; (...) I uploaded an alternate version of this image, with no parts completely obscured. Go to (URL) and click on Screenshot #8. -Gary (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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(...) Niftyness :-) I set the image as my desktop wallpaper. Doesn't help that I run the same scree res and I think I have a window maximized when I look at it ;-) BTW - notice it appears James forgot the back right wheel on the car. I like the (...) (23 years ago, 10-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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