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Need reverse matrix calculation added (feature request)

FWIW, It looks like you know that it's a 4x4 matrix, so you can just use a closed form. http://www.euclideanspace.com/maths/algebra/matrix/functions/inverse/fourD/index.htm

Lazy union (aka. no implicit union)

It seems like implicit union only on anonymous blocks (such as the top block) might be a reasonable behavior. I tend to think a lot of the issue is that...

Wireframe printing (aka Low-Fi Printing)

> usage of this for support or infill raises complicated issues about collision of extruder with non-wireframe printed parts... It really doesn't seem like that should be particularly challenging.

Render() exposed as a function

> ... OpenSCAD has "shape expressions", which compute shape values, but these are called "statements", and they are parsed using a different grammar that is incompatible with expressions. ... Is...

Render() exposed as a function

> ... The OpenSCAD interpreter is so extravagantly slow that I can't believe that it could beat CGAL in performance. ... There's no computer fast enough that it can't be...

Difference between sweep() and skin()

I haven't looked at the code in the examples, but it's probably that sweep is for rigidly transformed profiles, and skin is for more plastic changes in profiles. There's a...