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Re: Parts as volumes (instead of surfaces)
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Wed, 10 Apr 2002 17:28:36 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Steve Bliss writes:
Can you give reference to Eric Olsen solution?

Sorry, it was a demonstration he gave some of us awhile ago, of
BrickDraw3D in an early stage of development.  He'd move a part around
the screen, and it would jump over other pieces already on the screen.

That was only bounding boxes (minus the studs). The piece in question was
matched against all other pieces, any pieces in a line above or below were
put into a list. In case one of them intersected the piece in question, a
new place would be found.

-Erik



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  Re: Parts as volumes (instead of surfaces)
 
(...) So stud4 would be decomposed into 16 trapezoidal prisms? That sounds like a fair amount of mark up. (...) Nod, true. But I'd rather decompose a 1x1 brick into 6 volumes (4 walls, 1 top and the stud) than 46 (one volume for each surface (...) (23 years ago, 10-Apr-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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