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Buttons can have text and optionally ugly test icons ! I still need to settle on a UI style but the back-end is working properly.

I got tired of waiting for that, so I'm making this. Might take a while, but that's my goal.

Fixed the slice mode to support fillets. (Working in the command line and using modo to actually render it is really helping keep focus) - think my fancy cylinder generator is done

I added the 'fillet mode' and since I'm running the radius/Y position through a shaping function - accidentally got it backwards and now I've fallen into a rabbit hole of options 😄

So, fillet is underway. I realise that actually you might want to have a segmented chamfer though. So I'll add an option to explicitly select fillet or chamfer, rather than my initial plan of making "segments = 1" imply a chamfer.

The main artificial limit that I thought would be useful for a retro aesthetic is to write a simpler ray tracer, rather than path tracing. Classic diffuse/spec materials, flat ambient instead of radiosity, etc. The stuff that modern software has discarded or is hidden behind wall of options.

I'm thinking about adding fillet to the cone / cylinder / tube / box though because coding that, knowing the specific shape you're filleting, actually would be pretty easy. Make these primitives super powered. (Also write a generic fillet modifier later too)

Nice! Good to know that I have all those options, with the exception of fillet/chamfer (was thinking I'd add that as a modifier on top in the stack).

Thanks! I ought to try C4D as it's probably the one I know least about, but always heard good things from the people I've met who used it.

TIL: the round part of a cone is a "conic surface". Documentation work is already paying off !