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Re: Idea for a meta-statement
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Wed, 2 Oct 2002 00:02:40 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss writes:
> As a part author, I would *love* to see a POLYGON meta-statement. It
> would allow any number of points, and could be concave or convex (but
> not bow-tied). This would allow part authors to (more) easily construct
> surfaces, because they would just need to specify each point once.
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> I know I should just go look it up, but how hard is it to decompose a
> polygon into triangles?
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> Ah, I should go fire up LDScript, just for the polygons...
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> Steve
Steve, you gave me an idea, hehe!
Here's my first pre-embryo of an LDDP plugin:
http://home.swipnet.se/simlego/ldraw/plug_lds.zip
So far, it is anything but impressive. It can only handle the LDS LINE
command, and without any error check at all.
Just copy the DLL into the Plugins folder
Then run the LDDP and enter some lines in a new document:
LINE [color]
-20 0 0
20 0 0
20 0 20
0 0 30
-20 0 20
-20 0 0
LINE END
Colorful, isn't it? ;)
Run the LDS Plugin and voila! You have a neat polygon.
But you want a filled polygon if I get you right?
So, how do you want the input syntax and, more important, the output?
Should the program look for the centre of the polygon and make pieslices
from it or just draw triangles from existing points?
/Tore
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| (...) :D I was *hoping* someone would pick up on this. ;) (...) I don't have time to look right this second, but I will check it soon. (...) Right. (...) The input would be a color and a list of points. The output would be a list of LDraw triangle (...) (22 years ago, 3-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| As a part author, I would *love* to see a POLYGON meta-statement. It would allow any number of points, and could be concave or convex (but not bow-tied). This would allow part authors to (more) easily construct surfaces, because they would just need (...) (22 years ago, 26-Sep-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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