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Re: Text in walls
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lugnet.build.mosaic, lugnet.build
Date: 
Thu, 29 Apr 2004 14:09:02 GMT
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In lugnet.build.mosaic, Mark Bellis wrote:
In lugnet.build.mosaic, Sonnich Jensen wrote:

{snip}

I have added the letters you mention, and the T in your car (slightly different
from mine)
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=703789

I played a little around with the X.
The M and N are great.
The K and Z, partly R too are hard to read, a colleaque here could not figure it
out.

PLMKWYT

BR
Sonnich
http://www.hot.ee/sonnich/lego/

For the M I meant that the middle top plate would be in background colour.

As for reading, there should be no difficulty reading "Railtrack" on my hopper,
so it's the context in the word that matters.  If a person knows what a word
should say, the brain fills in the rest.  This was shown in scientific
experiments that words with letters in the wrong order were still read
correctly, so a couple of imperfectly shaped letters would be no worse than
reading handwriting!


Updated.

If anyone would add some more letters, especially other non-English letters, I'd
be happy.

BR
Sonnich



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  Re: Text in walls
 
(...) I'd leave the old 'M' in as an alternative. Also the 'W' done the same way, but upside down. A 'T' done this way only takes up three vertical plates, rather than six. Doing 4-stud-high lettering, I found that you only had to change the design (...) (20 years ago, 29-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.build.mosaic, lugnet.build, FTX)

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  Re: Text in walls
 
(...) As for reading, there should be no difficulty reading "Railtrack" on my hopper, so it's the context in the word that matters. If a person knows what a word should say, the brain fills in the rest. This was shown in scientific experiments that (...) (20 years ago, 29-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.mosaic, lugnet.build)

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