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15 Sep 2025 08:18:35 EDT (-0400)
  Impossible stl file conversion!  
From: Bald Eagle
Date: 8 Sep 2025 19:35:00
Message: <web.68bf6793ce177ca21f9dae3025979125@news.povray.org>
*** TRIGGER WARNING ***

Matt Parker (Stand Up Maths) has a new video about a "self-righting"
tetrahedron:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6S5gHjuN48

But wait ...

                 ........... what's that?!!!

He provides not one but TWO .stl files . . .












                                        ... 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


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