(2024-07-01, 21:34)Orion Pobursky Wrote: As long as those same 2 lines are arrived at without referring to the original file. Is it ridiculous? Yes. Is it necessary? Also, yes.
Not disputing the necessity, but definitely agree with the ridiculous. If two people can independently create exactly the same file without referring to one another, that's pretty much, by definition, the opposite of intellectual property.
(2024-07-01, 22:26)Travis Cobbs Wrote: Actually, the quad could start at any point, so somebody doing it from scratch wouldn't necessarily even produce the exactly same file. If you compare 3068b with 3069b, you will see that 3069b chose a different point as the first point in its quad. (3068b starts at -X/-Z, while 3069b starts at +X/-Z.) Since the quad has to be CCW, the only thing an author can choose is which point to start with, but there are 4 options for that, and the fact that these two parts use two different options means that there doesn't appear to be a standard for which one to pick.
That would be about as much of a creative distinction as a phone book that alphabetized by first name rather than last. Actually, less.
