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Pretty useful. Although it would be better if you could just send the diff over the wire when trying to look a previous version -- it takes way too much time to download the whole model.

Being able to continue inspecting the model in the same position it was before loading another version would be nice as well.

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Ahh, yes, that makes a lot of sense. And then if someone jumps around, send the whole model, but if it's sequential, just the diff will work.

Is this not what git does?

My understanding of his question was how I rendered the diff of the models.

While git does calculate textual diffs, it does not calculate visual diffs of 3D models, which is what I've managed to do here.

I'm not talking directly about your method versus the git method. What I was alluding to: if you're planning to use git to distribute your models eventually, perhaps you should have an eye toward optimizing the models and their diffs for use with git. Then, git transmits only the diffs as needed, when needed.

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