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After a long time of battle testing, we’ve now made the Manifold backend in #OpenSCAD the default.

This means that all new users of the development snapshot will, starting with the next nightly build, experience significantly faster rendering.

If you already have OpenSCAD installed, make sure Manifold is selected.

If you rely on, or want to still use, the CGAL backend, you can enable this in preferences (see screenshot) or on the cmd-line using `openscad --backend=cgal`.

TFW you wipe your computer and install a different #Linux distribution, like you've done dozens of times before, secure in the knowledge that everything is backed up, but realise that this time you had some very recent work-in-progress #OpenSCAD files that are now gone forever

Due to this topic coming up recently, we'll have a look at how #OpenSCAD supports typographic features some modern fonts have. A list of features can be found at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ along with a short description of what they do.

OpenSCAD supports enabling those features when specifying the font to use in the text() module.

The screenshot shows the different display of the "Linux Libertine G" font (numbertext.org/linux/) with "Small Caps" and "Oldstyle Figures" features enabled.

It seems like if the object is in the middle, you can't see it. #openscad

used 1/F = 1/a + 1/b and ya/yb = -za/zb, basically.

But also a bit of a hack with the shapes, used the size changes to take an input shape of light, `hull`ing it to a central point and then adding `scale(-1)` which is does the end beyond the focus. The result is `intersection`ed to the relevant area.

The next input it made by using that shape and intersecting with the lens.(1/2)