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Re: Smooth surfaces
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lugnet.cad.ray
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Mon, 11 Nov 2002 17:02:35 GMT
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I know this is an old discussion, but I really like Steve's idea of
meta-statements to control this.
What would be really cool is to have all the primitives and parts in the parts
library have the meta-statements that simply turn smooth triangles on and off.
This way we would not need a heuristic.
It is probably a *huge* effort, but we could run each part in the library (and
primitives) through a heuristic and then review each part to see if we want to
override the heuristics. This is probably really nieve, due to the amount of
work, but it is the optimal solution.
Kevin
In lugnet.cad.ray, Steve Bliss writes:
> My thought was that the smoothing could be turned on and off, as
> appropriate. That would require metastatements in the parts files.
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> Extra metastatements will slow down processing, but not by very much.
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> They will also increase file size, but again, not by very much. Unless
> someone likes to turn triangle smoothing on and off a lot.
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> Steve
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> In lugnet.cad.ray, Michael Horvath writes:
> > Instead of shoving all these metastatements into files, maybe a file
> > conversion utility (DAT -> POV) should keep an INI file that records which
> > parts can be processed in this way, and which cannot.
> > I'm basing this suggestion on the assumption that more metastatements will
> > increase file size, but if that's not really the case, then nevermind.
> > -Mike
> >
> >
> > In lugnet.cad.ray, Steve Bliss writes:
> > > In lugnet.cad.ray, Lothar Teichert wrote:
> > >
> > > > I think the following is of interest in this newsgroup:
> > >
> > > Wow! Yes, I'd say it's definitely of interest! At least it is to me.
> > > :)
> > >
> > > > See some examples at http://members.aol.com/elferwette/LDraw/index.htm.
> > >
> > > That one example looks awesome!
> > >
> > > > Is it worth to ask Lars Hassing for integration in L3P, e.g. controlled by
> > > > commandline parameters?
> > >
> > > Heck yeah!
> > >
> > > Would there be any point to discussing possible meta-statements, to turn
> > > smoothing on and off for different sections of part files?
> > >
> > > Steve
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| (...) Actually the meta-statements are probably unnecessary because all the information already exists in the parts in the form of type 2 and type 5 lines. Type 2 lines indicate a hard edge and type 5 lines (or the absence of type 2 lines) indicate (...) (22 years ago, 11-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| My thought was that the smoothing could be turned on and off, as appropriate. That would require metastatements in the parts files. Extra metastatements will slow down processing, but not by very much. They will also increase file size, but again, (...) (23 years ago, 24-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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