Posted by JM on November 17, 1998 at 19:17:09:
In Reply to: Re: Tutorial Preview posted by Nightmare on November 17, 1998 at 09:39:29:
: : : Better way? Well it would be nice if people would share stuff like that so we don't go wasting our time... that's what massassi is about after all.
: My curving pipe method is the same as Evan's.
: My method of perfect polygons is as follows.
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: (makes an octagon, but can by used for any non-prime number of sides if you start with something besides a square)
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: Take the default sector.
: Insert a new one right over top of it.
: Select the new sector and rotate by 45 degrees
: (angle calculation is the same as in your Perfect polygons, 360/number of sides)
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: Cleave off the corners of the rotated sector by the four sides of the non-rotated sector.
: Delete the original, non-rotated sector.
: This leaves you with an octagon.
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: Nightmare
That works, and almost makes sense ;), but it can't do odd numbers, and you need the equalateral triangle to begin with, which you can get using my technique. ;)