# IRC Log Summary - October 12, 2016

* abetusk shared a command line tool called "clipcli" (https://github.com/abetusk/clipcli) that performs polygon operations using clipperlib, mentioning recent improvements for proper polygon output ordering to support laser cutting applications.

* juri_ reported significantly improving the minimum feature size in ImplicitCAD from a poorly defined 0.0001mm to approximately 0.00000000000002mm, representing a substantial precision enhancement for the CAD software.

* kanzure shared research about scanning ultrasound (SUS) preventing age-related reductions in hippocampal CA1 dendrite structure in mice, linking to a PLOS ONE article (http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0164278).

* A technical discussion about Git occurred between kanzure and jrayhawk_ regarding methods to download commit metadata without retrieving entire commit objects, specifically for creating orphan branches from other repositories.