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Re: BFC revisited
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Date: 
Fri, 17 Aug 2001 02:48:21 GMT
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There was never agreement on what the BFC standard should be.  So there
aren't very many parts that follow it in any way.

I do have a set of primitives that are BFC-compliant.  I didn't straighten
out all the primitives, but I did a number of them.  I can email them to
you, if you want.

Steve

In lugnet.cad.dev, Gary Williams writes:
> I'm looking for a model file that utilizes BFC-certified parts to test
> backface culling in the CAD application I'm developing.
> 
> Unfortunately, as near as I can tell, only 13 part files have a BFC-related
> comment, and on top of that, they're not consistently formatted:
> 
> 30134   (0 BFC CERTIFY CW)
> 30156   (0 BFC NOCERTIFY)
> 30183   (0 BFC CERTIFY CW)
> 4107073 (0 CERTIFY BFC CW)
> 4107488 (0 CERTIFY BFC CW)
> 4107539 (0 CERTIFY BFC CW)
> 4150p01 (0 BFC CERTIFY CW)
> 4523    (0 BFC NOCERTIFY)
> 553     (0 BFC CERTIFY CW)
> 73593   (0 CERTIFY BFC CW)
> 9044    (0 CERTIFY BFC CW)
> 9567    (0 CERTIFY BFC CW)
> 553s01  (0 BFC CERTIFY CW)
> 
> I had hoped that by now, at least the basic bricks would be BFC compliant,
> since they are used more often than any other parts.
> 
> It would be neat if we could develop a standard set of DAT files for testing
> Lego renderers.  These would be akin to the famous teapot model that was
> used for the first general-purpose renderer.
> 
> -Gary



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  Re: BFC revisited
 
I forgot to mention: if anyone is interested in looking at the most-recent version of the BFC proposal, it's still at: (URL). The first screen of text is meta-comments about the status of the proposal. The actual proposal starts at the line "LDraw (...) (25 years ago, 17-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
  Re: BFC revisited
 
(...) I would appreciate that. -Gary (25 years ago, 17-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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  BFC revisited
 
I'm looking for a model file that utilizes BFC-certified parts to test backface culling in the CAD application I'm developing. Unfortunately, as near as I can tell, only 13 part files have a BFC-related comment, and on top of that, they're not (...) (25 years ago, 16-Aug-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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