(2016-11-08, 22:13)Tore Eriksson Wrote: I'm pretty sure I've asked this before many years ago, but my memory is not getting better.
Is it "legal" to let the polygons in a pattern overlap? Of course you can't allow this with different colors, that would look terrible. If I can use primitives in a pattern instead of handmade polygons, the result will look smoother. But if I can't do it without overlapping, is there any reason to disallow this method? I can't see that it would affect the quality in any way, but that hasn't stopped the leaders of the LDraw community from issuing standards rules before.
I would hold such a part. When reworking part from the past I remove all these overlapping rings for two reasons:
* Polycount
* Broken mesh which could led to rendering artefacts. Read http://www.ldraw.org/article/218.html#lt4
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LEGO ergo sum