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15 Sep 2025 08:28:20 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Impossible stl file conversion!  
From: Ilya Razmanov
Date: 9 Sep 2025 23:34:44
Message: <68c0f1d4$1@news.povray.org>
On 09.09.2025 2:32, Bald Eagle wrote:

I'm sorry but I don't get the joke (well, it's only 6:26 here and I'm 
still waiting for my coffee to extract). So, text files may be converted 
to text files. We already seen it here with DXF converter by yesbird 
<sya### [at] gmailcom>, and DXFs are definitely more unhuman than STL 
(at least it took me about 5 minutes to read STL specs when I was 
writing STL export for my img2mesh, and DXF specs took whole day just to 
find damn chirality reference). So?

>                                          ... IN ASCII!   :O
> 
> The free, open-source provision of these easily downloadable, viewable,
> interpretable, and 3D-printable files is not only sure to send shockwaves
> throughout the POV-Ray newsgroups, but some joker is actually claiming that such
> files bear more thana passing resemblance to . . . the POV-Ray mesh {} format!
> 
> Incredible!   Preposterous!
> Simultaneously a blasphemous, heretical, and seditious utterance!
> Home-coded find/replace extremism!
> 
> <Monty Python>
> Paradoxically, those that find the _non-binary_ form of this file offensive are
> - - - hateful bigots!
> </Monty Python>
> 
> Ni!
> 
> - BE
> 

-- 
Ilyich the Toad
https://dnyarri.github.io/


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