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Re: My second architecture project
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Thu, 12 Oct 2000 01:50:10 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Steve Bliss writes:
In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Bram Lambrecht wrote:
It's done!
Anyone feel inspired to build it out of LEGO?
http://home.cwru.edu/~bxl34/retreat.html

So, did you create this model in a DAT file?  ;)

Uh, no.  It's strictly POV code.  Almost entirely differences and unions of
boxes and cylinders.  Imagine the pain of doing a spiral staircase without a
loop and a difference command...now you know why there's no DAT file :)
--Bram



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(...) Hmm. How would a difference operation be useful for a spiral staircase? LDScript would have been useful for doing the risers. The angle is a function of Y, and LDScript has looping. That handrail would have been a pain in DAT-world, no matter (...) (24 years ago, 12-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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(...) Steve (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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