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Larry, Yes, I'm glad you mentioned string. It is similar to both bands and tubes. I'm not much of a mathematical theoretician, so I'll probably need some help designing the algorithms, but I can code like a madman. Kevin "Larry Pieniazek" (...) (22 years ago, 14-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I think this would be very nifty! (...) One other type of flexible part is string. Taut string should conform to the shape of whatever it is wound on, leave tangentially, and have a linear path to the other end. Slack string should conform to (...) (22 years ago, 13-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDGLite and XFree86 4.2?
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(...) I'm not sure if MESA-demos (I just looked it up) is part of XFree86-devel. I suspect not. (...) I don't know about that. Perhaps MESA-lib is closely tied because of the intermingling of X and OpenGL protocols, but the higher level windowing (...) (22 years ago, 13-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) XFree86-devel is already installed. (...) I will see if I can get that to work, but I would expect it to be rather closely tied to the rest of the XFree86-package. Play well, Jacob -- Bregnerod (a LEGO town): (URL) (22 years ago, 13-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I'm relatively new to the LDRAW CAD world, but am very impressed with all the work that has been done. It is amazing that we have such a huge parts database to work with. I've been working on a tool for publishing LDRAW based designs. It has been in (...) (22 years ago, 14-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev) !
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(...) That's not going to do it. You seem to be missing the glut library which is not a core OpenGL library, but a widely distributed toolkit that's used for most of the example programs. Ldglite uses this extensively to open the window, get the (...) (22 years ago, 13-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I use a Linux system where I do not have system administrator rights, but I would still like to compile and use LDGLite on it. My problem is that the system has XFree86 version 4.2 installed, and the names of some of the OpenGL/Mesa files seem to (...) (22 years ago, 13-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Detemining Bad Vertex Sequence
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(...) Yes - "Poll, silent update" - that's the option - it refreshes for me (400Mhz Celeron) every one to two seconds. Not sure if you can control the poll frequency, though. Lars, can you answer this? Chris (22 years ago, 13-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Thanks... I am having trouble with these instructions, maybe I'm not running the right versions of things? I have LDAO 2.1.8 and L3Lab 1.2. I'm not sure what the autofresh option is... when I launch LDAO editor on my part, I set the viewer to (...) (22 years ago, 13-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Preview of a new ldraw editor "sort of"
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(...) (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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I decided to release a preview on what I'm making so far is called edraw is a new editor for making LDR files with a new system powered by ldglite it uses ldglite's off-screen system so is not real time but I belive it will allow PC's with litle (...) (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Ldglite sourcing STDIN not working under Windows 2000?
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(...) I suppose that's as good a reason as any. Actually It's kinda neat to finally find a compelling reason for the single pass, render as you go, ldlite parser. Pipes are just too cool! On the other hand, the user won't be able to spin the model (...) (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Ldglite sourcing STDIN not working under Windows 2000?
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(...) Hmm. Supplying '--' does make a difference, but only in the error messages I get. :) (...) I was going to poke around with making a utility that would give the user a file polygon-by-polygon, and have them respond with whether the winding was (...) (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Well I suppose I could say the problem is on the side of the keyboard where your chair is, but that wouldn't be completely true. According to the readme.txt file you need to give ldglite the -- command line option to use stdin. However I'm (...) (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Has anyone gotten the Windows version of ldglite to read from standard input? When I do something like: type \ldraw\parts\3001.dat | ldglite I expect ldglite to render a 2x4 brick. Instead, ldglite reports that it can't find file " ". Anyone have (...) (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Right. There are definitely situations in ldraw parts that won't fit the nice all-polygons-in-a-mesh model. That's why I said that auto-rewind should be an 'option'. Meaning, the user can turn it off. Although for a part to be BFC compliant, (...) (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Well, my program does exactly this when it finds the correct winding of one polygon. (...) Well, I remember this thread, where Leonardo said that it created such a program: (URL) It's a long and old thread, so, search for the word "green" two (...) (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I'm not so sure this is completely true because we allow overlapping and intersecting polygons. In fact, there is nothing which prevents a single polygon face from being partly on the outside and partly on the inside. You can't automagically (...) (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) What would be especially good is if there was an option to test and flip adjacent polygons. Once the winding of one polygon is known, adjacent polygons can be automatically wound correctly. So you click one red polygon, and all the polygons (...) (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I use LDAO in combination with L3Lab. - Ensure your dat file has a "0 BFC CERTIFY CW" - Set the "stop at cursor" option in the LDAO editor. - Set the mytest6 and autofresh options L3Lab (and leave the BFC option on) - Step through the file in (...) (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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