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4 Oct 2024 01:14:21 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Most unuseful macro contest : the mPipe macro  
From: Gilles Tran
Date: 30 Apr 1999 13:46:34
Message: <3729DEF5.EC494C84@inapg.inra.fr>
No it doesn't. It only verifies that the pipes stay in the containing box
(they tend to crawl on the box surface after a while). Implementing collision
detection shouldn't be to difficult (though parsing intensive) since the path
of the pipe is kept in an array, but the macro was primarily built to create
automatically a very complicated pipe object that looks good with no intention
of verisimilitude whatsoever. Indeed, these pipes look much better when they
cross... I decided to write the macro after trying to position the pipes by
hand (and having little success).

Gilles

Remco de Korte wrote:

> >
> The image is teriffic.
> The macro... one question: does it check for crossing pipes (?) ?
>
> Remco


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