a " boolean " feature

i'm sure this has been sugested before but i do a lot of modeling in 3dsMax and it has a boolean feature where you can put two prims together and subtract a from b or b from a, this would be awesome in SL and i was quite surprised when i first started using SL it didnt already have this feature.

Constuctive Solid Geometry.

Been suggested at least once in the last two weeks.

And as a side note, even 3D Studio can handle only so many booleans before the program explodes (its on the line of about 30 before you have significant problems, 10 and you'd damn well better convert it to a mesh or it's going to run REAL slow like).

Yeah, it would be so cooool!

There would be ways of pulling this off. But it would involve converting objects into single meshes at some stage. Unfortunately, it appears meshes will cause problems that Linden Lab arent willing to tackle... Yet?!.

Shouldn't they be called "venns" rather than "booleans"? I think they chose the wrong mathematician!

Boolean math. AND, NAND, OR, XOR, NOT.

ORing two circles gives you a Venn diagram (blobbling two prims together into one). NAND is the two ouside spaces. AND is the middle space, XOR is well, everything ouside the diagram (admittedly useless in CSG). Circle 1 NOT circle 2 is the space that's not the middle on one side (what people see as a "cut out" or subtraction opperation).

Yes, clearly -- but it's really set/subset operations. Clearly named by computer geeks rather than mathematicians, and computer geeks are notorious for coining less than ideal terms.

Seriously, venn is a more appropriate model. Not that it matters.

Signed -- a computer geek.

Goes along with:
Black Hole
Icon (as per the things that sit on your desktop)

And a whole bunch more that I can't think of (useless knowledge kinds of stuff).

Seconded, CSG would add rocket fuel to building efforts.

I'm sure it'll be implemented sooner or later (probably gonna by this time in 200