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Re: My second architecture project
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Thu, 12 Oct 2000 18:24:30 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Bram Lambrecht wrote:

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 :)

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 how you slice
it...  Oh wait, you could have used the spring utility!

Any other objections? ;)

Steve



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(...) Each riser is a circular segment--the difference of a donut (difference of two cylinders) and a couple rectangles oriented to result in a pie segment. (...) Which is how I did it in POV-Ray :) (...) The handrail was a pain to do in POV-Ray (...) (24 years ago, 16-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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(...) 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 (24 years ago, 12-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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