Howdy
. By chance i found a old screensaver from 1996. This screen saver is called FLYBY2. Some smart guys remade this screensaver
for modern systems, low poly art at its finest. Several jet fighter passing one at the time in a modest 3D environment. I saw the jets and
found the 3D data, it was
***.sfr files. Next i tried to open these files using a note pad.. Bingo! There it was, some simple plain text
describing the elegant form of the fast moving much desired objects in the screen saver. I knew STEP and VRML can also be opened with
a notepad and FreeCAD can deal with these files to make the 3D shape. However this format was different and could not be imported unless
you write a instruction for FreeCAD how to deal with these files. I couldn't do it, did not even find any useful information on the particular
format. I decided to put my discovery here on the forum, maybe get some more information on the whole topic.
It didn't take long some guys found the post. Within a view minutes a very sharp guy called TheMarkster not only figured out the file layout,
he also wrote a working script, bam just like that and the wire frame was reviled. One script after another were posted, each version with a
huge leap of progress, solving problems for several jet models. Now the jets had not only a wire frame, faces were also present. Short after
that colors were introduced, they were not quite done yet i mentioned we need to scale the models up for the 3D print! Well the excitement
and fast pace, i got carried away. You can't print faces you need solids, there i was "standing in the rain".
If you like to see the models, maybe look at them in your 3D viewer, just hop over and try the SurfMacro, it is elegant and fast. You can read
the comments get all the jets, scale them up and after a little post process even have some printable files.
In addition to that get the links to the screen saver in several variants...
All credit goes to TheMarkster, without him screenshots were the most we could look at! (Even those would be small and crappy!)
See for yourself:
https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=66521
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