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Re: Parts as volumes (instead of surfaces)
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Date: 
Sun, 7 Apr 2002 15:29:51 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Jacob Sparre Andersen writes:
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> Damien Guichard wrote:
> 
> > It has been said that, with ldraw parts, we have the geometry of TLG bricks.
> > This is rather optimistic. Because geometry would be CSG descriptions that
> > allow much more (although slower) than quads and triangles. CSG descriptions
> > allow part collision detection.
> 
> What's "CSG descriptions"?

Constructive Solid Geometry? (the notion of modeling solids as constructions
of simpler solids, using union and intersection as operator)



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