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> allowing custom minifigs from the member to be displayed? How about for each
>
> Yes, and even better you will be able to assign any icon in your collection
> to be the icon for any folder in your collection. I might allow that for
> the user icon otherwise there will be a large selection of figs to choose
> from.
I like this idea. I prefer a large assortment of minifigs for each user to
select on the main page, but having our own icons for the folders would be
cool. I imagine someone like Larry having a GMLTC folder with their logo as
the link to the folder. There needs to be some way to tell if it's a
sub-folder or a picture though since both could be in the same folder.
If you (or some other artist) could come up with a bunch of standard icons, I
think that would be a nice place to start. That way we could still put up a
Town icon on our town folders even if we don't yet have a nice icon of our own.
If I'm someone that is good at building but terrible at art, I'd like to have
a good selection (5 or so of each subject) of defaults to choose from.
Back to the minifigs though, do you think it would add a significant load-up
time for the main page if we all chose different figs?
Ben Roller
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In lugnet.publish, Ben Roller writes:
> [...]
> Back to the minifigs though, do you think it would add a significant load-up
> time for the main page if we all chose different figs?
Depends on the size of the images and the number of images per page. The
neat thing is, with modern browsers and servers, a whole bunch of small
images totalling, say, 100KB can be transferred in roughly the same time
as one big 100KB image.
For example, here's a page containing 500 all-different randomly-generated
minifigs:
http://www.lugnet.com/people/members/minifig-test/
Each minifig there is 28x50 pixels and the file sizes average 909 bytes each,
for a total download size of approximately 500KB, including the index page
and HTTP protocol overhead. It's a slow-loading page, but then again there
are quite a few images.
--Todd
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In lugnet.publish, Todd Lehman writes:
> For example, here's a page containing 500 all-different randomly-generated
> minifigs:
>
> http://www.lugnet.com/people/members/minifig-test/
Wow! Would it be possible to generate all of those with a height
of 128 pixels (total, including space above and below fig.)?
Those would look *much* better than my lousy scans (and I could add
that feature *much* faster) :)
KL
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In lugnet.publish, Kevin Loch writes:
> In lugnet.publish, Todd Lehman writes:
> > For example, here's a page containing 500 all-different randomly-generated
> > minifigs:
> >
> > http://www.lugnet.com/people/members/minifig-test/
>
> Wow! Would it be possible to generate all of those with a height
> of 128 pixels (total, including space above and below fig.)?
Technically speaking, it's possible to generate them at a variety of small
sizes -- it's basically just some pipefitting and scripting with pnmtools.
But then again it was just a little experiment page -- something from the
back burner at lugnet.com.
> Those would look *much* better than my lousy scans (and I could add
> that feature *much* faster) :)
Oops, sounds like there's been a bit of a misunderstanding(?). When I wrote
"here's a page..." above, it wasn't to say "here are a bunch of images to
take/use" but rather (literally) to say (to Ben, to address his question)
simply "here is the existance of a page" which demonstrates that download
speed isn't too bad for lots of images when they're very small. In other
words, it was a technical demonstration.
I didn't mention this before because it didn't seem relevant, but that page
was created on August 21, 1998 (at a different URL back then) and was simply
something lying around on the back burner that happened to be relevant to the
discussion (Ben's question in particular). Although it probably didn't take
more than a couple hours to make back then, it wasn't something assembled
yesterday on-the-fly for any particular purpose or suggestion.
--Todd
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On Sun, 13 Feb 2000 12:01:59 GMT, "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com>
wrote:
> I didn't mention this before because it didn't seem relevant, but that page
> was created on August 21, 1998 (at a different URL back then) and was simply
> something lying around on the back burner that happened to be relevant to the
> discussion (Ben's question in particular). Although it probably didn't take
> more than a couple hours to make back then, it wasn't something assembled
> yesterday on-the-fly for any particular purpose or suggestion.
On a much lighter note, I really liked how the page loaded. I am
guessing that the order in which the images appeared on the page was
not caused by anything other than load times, but it was cool to watch
gaps appear in the lines of minifigs then watch them be filled in
later...
And yeah, it doesn't take much to amuse me.
--
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