Hardware for a Soft world
Inset from the March 1997 issue of Game Developer Magazine. Oooh, 2GB hard disk; ahhh, 128MB RAM 😉
The personal workstation…a thoroughbred system indeed…with dual 200MHz P-Pro processors, 128MB ECC memory, 2GB Ultra-SCSI disk…list price with a 21″ monitor was $18,690
For each polygon, I want to get the EdgeIndex of the longest edge (ultimately, I want to get the midpoint of the longest edge for each polygon).
Being literal-minded, I started by getting the length of the longest edge for each polygon:
Here’s a Show Values to show it works:
From there, I hacked my way to the edge index:
The Show Values:
For my second try at getting the index of the longest edge, I stopped trying to go from the length back to the index. I think this is a little better approach:
As you might imagine, it was a busy March on the Softimage mailing list (5000+ posts, ~300 topics). So, here’s a word cloud.
Softimage occurred 3651 times, Maya 3059, ICE 1025, and Bifrost 2078. Bitfrost just once.
I recently had reason to investigate the order in which things are loaded from workgroups, and here’s what I found:
What was my motive for looking into this? A plugin that was trying to get the OriginPath of a plugin in the SItoA addon. That was never going to work, because the plugin was loaded before the SItoA addon.
I tested this on Windows 7, not Linux.
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