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  Level B Simplification - LDraw Boxer
 
Level B Simplification: Replace with plain boxes only those parts that has all its studs and inside totally hidden by other parts. I've just finished a program that scans for all non-transparent parts that has their studs and bottoms covered with (...) (22 years ago, 11-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Level B Simplification - LDraw Boxer
 
Tore Eriksson worte: (...) [...] Great! (...) Any chance to see the source code? Or binary versions for Tru64/Alpha, Linux/Alpha and Linux/x86? Play well, Jacob (22 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Level B Simplification - LDraw Boxer
 
(...) Just so you don't interpret the paucity of responses to indicate a lack of interest, let me say for the record that this sounds like a fantastic utility! I haven't had time to download and install it yet, but I will try to do so when I get (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Level B Simplification - LDraw Boxer
 
(...) Thank you. Even if I were the only lugnut to benefit from the LDBoxer project, I'd still find it worth the effort. (...) Not the way you expect, I can tell! :o) I've made a pile of .nfo files to be copied into the Parts\B directory. For (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Level B Simplification - LDraw Boxer
 
(...) Clever idea. I don't know if you are interest by optimization. I suppose a brick is (xmin,xmax,ymin,ymax...min,zmax). I guess the most efficient data structure is octree. Octrees can be implmented as binary trees. On the first level you sort (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  LDraw Boxer Page
 
(...) Thanks! :o) (...) Sounds like a good idea. But first, I make the features I like to have, then I'll try to optimize it. /Tore (22 years ago, 21-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Level B Simplification - LDraw Boxer
 
(...) Looking through the /B directory I have a suggestion. Why not simplify further by using box4.dat instead of box.dat? -Orion (22 years ago, 21-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad.ray)
 
  Re: Level B Simplification - LDraw Boxer
 
(...) If I make the simplified versions of grooved tiles more detailed by making them out of two boxes instead of one (which I intend to), there will be very visible gaps. /Tore (22 years ago, 22-Feb-03, to lugnet.cad.ray)

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