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(...) Bram, Way cool, I'm dying to see how exactly you did the articulations though. And it could use some action shots, with bug eyed Aliens. Thanks, George (21 years ago, 4-Apr-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Crate Contraption Writeups
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Thanks to Philo, I've put up much smaller versions of the Crate Contraption videos for download. You'll have to have the latest DIVX codec (from www.divx.com) installed. The videos average 1/4 to 1/5 the size of the originals. (URL) on the Divx (...) (21 years ago, 4-Apr-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Blade Runner Police Spinner: version 2
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(...) Boy, is it! The director's cut of Blade Runner is one of my favorite films (and Ridley Scott's last great work, IMO). I'm always delighted to see a good rendition of the police spinner, even when I can't track down (URL) the picture of it (...) (21 years ago, 4-Apr-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Thanks! Filling in the gaps left by those larger arches can be tricky...it would if the intermediate size existed. I always wish I had more of the big ones too (I ran out on this project). (...) No, they're just for show. (...) The moonbase (...) (21 years ago, 4-Apr-05, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Type 5 lines, BFC relevance, and OpenGL
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(...) I'm using a display list. The triangles are drawn inside the display list using "classic" OpenGL calls (glBegin(GL_TRIANGLE....glEnd()). The lines are being drawn inside the display list using vertex arrays. Using vertex arrays to draw the (...) (21 years ago, 4-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New MOC: Multi-Terrain Analyzer ACR-10
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(...) I can't take credit for the name...thank Tom McD and Jon Palmer for that. And yes, it does sound like a nice C-S name. --Bram (21 years ago, 4-Apr-05, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Packing MOCs for Shipment - Suggestions?
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(...) This kind of stuff would be excellent material for a curator to collect... The trick is to consider what forces cause MOCs to disassemble. Vibration is one issue. Solidly constructed models will survive best from this standpoint. This is the (...) (21 years ago, 4-Apr-05, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: New MOC: Multi-Terrain Analyzer ACR-10
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Sweet! The wheels/suspension are especially nice, but my favorite part is the name, which sounds like something Lego would have come up with. James Wilson Dallas, TX (21 years ago, 4-Apr-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) (snip) That's really cool. I'm gonna have nightmares about all those curved pieces--I can barely get four of them to look good, and here you've raised an entire civilization of the things and they probably worship you as a god. Upside down, (...) (21 years ago, 4-Apr-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) I'm not familiar with Blade Runner, but I know nifty when I see it. That, sir, is nifty. The lights on the roof are a little messy-looking. I dunno if there's any way to fix it without sacrificing accuracy--what you have there is already (...) (21 years ago, 4-Apr-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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