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Re: Formalizing a method for handling synthesizable parts
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Tue, 15 Oct 2002 03:06:51 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Philippe Hurbain writes:

I guess there is no perfect solution: modelling curved parts with some
smoothness requires lots of polygons. Fortunately machine power increases!

L3P supports conditional in-line POV primitives.  You could use a low
polygon count for tools like Ldraw and MLCAD, but have POV primitives for
perfect objects in the ray-traced images.

Here is an example of a torus:

http://news.lugnet.com/cad/dat/parts/primitives/?n=139

-Chuck



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  Re: Formalizing a method for handling synthesizable parts
 
Chuck, This is a good idea. I'll put it on the list. Kevin (...) (22 years ago, 20-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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  Re: Formalizing a method for handling synthesizable parts
 
(...) Works fine now ;o) My tests were far from exhaustive though ! (...) I guess there is no perfect solution: modelling curved parts with some smoothness requires lots of polygons. Fortunately machine power increases! One possibility though would (...) (22 years ago, 6-Oct-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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