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Re: US Road System (was Re: Ldraw cannon)
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Thu, 12 Nov 1998 02:30:52 GMT
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Will people get to pick the color of their 'Home'? 'Cause, if so, I
want Dibs on where ever Pine Green is (if that's okay). :)
Jeff
Todd Lehman wrote:
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> wvw@earthlink.net (De Bengel) writes:
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> > In a town in Holland (Zoetermeer), they made a new part where all the
> > roads are color-coded. You have a blue quadrant, a red quadrant, etc.
> > So the road between the blue and red is called the 'blue-red street'.
> > And within the green quadrant you have the (I made these up, for I
> > don't know the english equivalents) moss-green street, the basil-green
> > street, etc. I never knew there were so many names for different
> > shades of red/blue/yellow/green. Not all that practical, but I'm sure
> > it looked cute on the proposal.
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> Seriously?! That's so great to hear!!! One thing we're looking at for the
> LUGNET community map(s) is color-coding the boundary markers for a sense of
> overall location. Numbers alone just don't cut it.
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> At first it was going to be four main directional gradients -- West=Yellow,
> East=Blue, North=Red, South=Green...with the intensity fading to white the
> farther away you got from the center.
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> But the color mixing code for that was gunky, so now what it does is takes
> the cartesian coordinates and converts them to polar coordinates, then
> converts the angle (theta) to a hue on the rainbow (red, yellow, orange,
> green, blue, purple) and uses the distance from the origin (rho) to modify
> the hue into a tone -- black at the center, increasing slowly up to full-on
> color at about 15 squares out, then increasing slowly up to full-on white
> about 30 squares out.
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> In the end, I think it works well, and it's fun to navigate around in it.
> (Demo coming maybe later this week if people are interested...)
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> I'm wicked surprised (but in a happy way) to hear that some area of the real
> world actually did this with color mixing! So you say that moss-green
> street is actually given by a slightly different color of paint on the sign
> compared to basil-green street? Or do they just vary the names and not the
> pigments in the paints?
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> > The street I really like is in Utrecht, the one that the university is
> > on, called (loose translation) 'The road to wisdom'
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> That's pretty cool! Does it have an associated color?
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> --Todd
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| (...) Yes, the houses have red, yellow, or blue roofing. Hmm, Pine Green, eh? I think that's at about W4,S3 (West 4, South 3). That might wind up being inside the reserved area at the center. Then again it might not... Maybe the coloring should (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Seriously?! That's so great to hear!!! One thing we're looking at for the LUGNET community map(s) is color-coding the boundary markers for a sense of overall location. Numbers alone just don't cut it. At first it was going to be four main (...) (26 years ago, 12-Nov-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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