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So I've got an application where a forklift loads a crate onto a conveyor belt. I could then start the conveyor belt up by having the forklift throw a polarity switch. What I would *like* is that when the crate gets to the other end, it somehow (...) (21 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | I just have to say I am impressed...
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While at Brickfest, I was able to purchase for myself one of the Star Wars Imperial Star Destroyer sets (at a 25% discount, yay!), and while I am several years behind in jumping on this particular bandwagon... I am very impressed. LEGO really outdid (...) (21 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: My humble opinion about LDraw animation
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(...) Artists are certainly not stupid and i will learn from them as much as i can. Nobody wants to reinvent the wheel, neither do i. (...) Damien My lego POV-Ray gallery: (URL) (21 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: My humble opinion about LDraw animation
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(...) I downloaded Lani long time ago, not deeply tested it but i wouldn't say it sucks. I know about POV-Ray, ray-tracing primitives and Constructive Solid Geometry. My lego POV-Ray gallery: (URL) (21 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: My humble opinion about LDraw animation
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(...) Yeah it's already difficult enough and i don't say i will try. And if i try i will not embark anyone as a collective project can have a negative impact when it fails: people who have invested time and effort want someone to be blamed and (...) (21 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Error in part #590
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(...) This part is already in the PT (with the correct number) with this change as well as being BFC'd and tidied up. (URL) Dean Earley, Dee (dean@earlsoft.co.uk) irc: irc://irc.blitzed.org/ web: (URL) +44 (0)780 8369596 (21 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: My humble opinion about LDraw animation
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(...) My computer is a Celeron-Mendocino 500Mhz, 128Mb RAM, Win98se. Thus, even free is too costly because i can't afford the required hardware. damien (21 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Brick versions over the years
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The group is far from dead. Maybe no one has an answer, wants to answer, or hasn't read the post yet. The only person that I could think of offhand to answer your question since I can't answer (and probably not alot of people can answer that (...) (21 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.parts)
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| | Re: My humble opinion about LDraw animation
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(...) Right. When free software exists and is good enough to outperform commercial solutions in some applications, it will of course be used. The extremely successful combination Apache/PHP springs to mind - lots of web sites who could easily afford (...) (21 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Whose angel sculpture was that?
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(...) Yup. I gave a talk on the software at Brickfest, "Automated Brick Layout" I posted the slides from that talk in my brickshelf folder: (URL) Please feel free to post photos. Thank you! -dw (21 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: avevo dato una brutta notizia..
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(...) Mi pare di capire che tu ti stia offrendo come volontario per inserire in MLCad le istruzioni della mia stazione! :-) (scherzo, ovviamente..) BTW, si tratterebbe di solo (circa) 13.500 bricks. (21 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: My humble opinion about LDraw animation
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(...) I think it would be wise to include a step 3.5: We first need some means for saving animation data, i.e. we need to design and agree upon a file format for time-varying LDraw data. Without that, we might end up with the situation that is still (...) (21 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: My humble opinion about LDraw animation
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(...) And I'll add to that the animated GIMP (forgotten its name) is used by Dreamworks and other big animation studios. Tim (21 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: My humble opinion about LDraw animation
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(...) How much does Linux cost? How much does OpenOffice cost? How much does Gimp cost? How much do thousands of titles of quite useful free software cost? I think you are missing the point. Professional software titles are often out of range for (...) (21 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: cerco set studios 1349
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(...) ehhh...ma a me piacciono le cose sempre dopo... ..arrivo sempre in ritardo! hehe;-) ciao! Matteo (21 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug.market)
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| | Re: My humble opinion about LDraw animation
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(...) (URL) Personal Learning Edition> is free for non-commercial use. (21 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Brick versions over the years
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(...) OK, no reply in 3 days, and my message is still the most recent post. I guess this group is dead. >Sigh< Stefan G (21 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.parts)
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| | Re: My humble opinion about LDraw animation
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(...) At the very least you should read the manuals to see what techniques the artists use. They aren't stupid. And they do apply to Lego animation because I have read some manuals so I know. Lightwave is only $895, which isn't that expensive (how (...) (21 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: My humble opinion about LDraw animation
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(...) I have been working on what you want for 5 years. At first I came up with Lani as a language. (URL) sucks. I now use POV-Ray. Have you learned POV-Ray? Have you seen this: (URL) fully agree, POV-Ray isn't as powerful as, say, Maya. But it is (...) (21 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: My humble opinion about LDraw animation
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I've had a basic animation system working in LeoCAD for a while, I tried to do things as close to how 3DS works as I could since I didn't have much experience with animations and I figured the guys at Discreet know what they are doing (I'm not (...) (21 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Star Trek vs. Babylon 5
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Ever wonder what would happen if they fought it out? Soon we will be able to find out... ...In Finnish (URL) (21 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Brickfest Pneumatic Master and new Pneumatic Gate Circuits
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(...) [MUCH SNIPPAGE] Mark, I did this simple repost to remove the remainder of this conversation from events.brickfest. I'll go home and study your feedback, build models and test them, and provide a writeup. Kev (...) (21 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Brickfest Pneumatic Master and new Pneumatic Gate Circuits
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(...) Kevin, I think "differential output" is what I really meant, though I called it "no leak" because the supply never leaks, one output or the other is always pressurised and there is never a state where both outputs leak. There is also only one (...) (21 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | LEGOFan.org Now Hosting LEGOFactory Forum!
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Hi all, It was announced at BrickFest™ that LEGOFactory would be launched this week. In conjunction with the launch, LEGOFan.org has opened a LEGOFactory forum. What makes this forum special is the Product Manager for LEGOFactory, Mark Hansen, will (...) (21 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, FTX) !
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| | Re: From the Firefly TV Series: Serenity
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(...) Rockin! Cool moc. I love your use of both dark grays in the engines and throughout the moc. It really makes the model pop. Your insane use of snot is also just ridiculously cool. My favorite part (URL) (21 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Darth Maul
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(...) Hi Daniel, Congratulations on some nice work. Given the nature of Darth Maul, I know that he must be made from black and red pieces. This makes it difficult to see his construction, because black does not photograph well. I know that a (...) (21 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.technic.bionicle, FTX)
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| | Re: different output power at different ports?
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(...) I've discovered a thread in legofan (URL) that talks about new features of a possible RCX 3.0. Is there more information that can be handed out? - Dave (21 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: Take Two: Minifig-Scale Motorcycle
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(...) Looks great! I hope to see this on LEGO Factory soon... it's the sort of model I would most likely buy for our town layout. Best, – Joe (21 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: My humble opinion about LDraw animation
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(...) Dear Damien, I'm not 100% sure what you are saying for a lot of this post but I do have to say that writing an animation scripting language, even utilising what else is around, is a very difficult task. As a simple example of how hard this (...) (21 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: My humble opinion about LDraw animation
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(...) May be the concepts in these sofware are fine for 3D artists, but nobody has ever experienced and validated them for complete lego animation. Take "Revenge of the Brick" as an example: it's more about adding some bricks in traditionnal (...) (21 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: My humble opinion about LDraw animation
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(...) MLCad + L3P + POVray does static pictures, greatly limited when it comes to animation scripting capability. Considerations, - damien (21 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Mecha Contests at BrickFest 2005!
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oh cool, thanks for the credit for the photo, the mecha room was excellent and i was truly honored to walk away with the 'best micro mecha' award. thanks to jeff for setting up the only room with audio/video playing around the clock. the books were (...) (21 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: When will the Vikings raid the US?
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"The Rev. Brendan Powell Smith" <thereverend@thereverend.com> wrote in message news:ILHuJv.E8n@lugnet.com... (...) October release scheduled as a TRU exclusive. S@H to have them later this year. Rob www.brickmodder.net (21 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: cerco set studios 1349
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(...) Un paio d'anni fa l'avevo segnalato a 99 €, sono rimasti lì per un anno (li ho contati, ne avevano venduto solo uno su cinque) poi sono spariti tutti di botto... L'ho rivisto qualche mese in un altro iper a 60 €, ma pochi giorni dopo non c'era (...) (21 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug.market)
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| | Re: avevo dato una brutta notizia.. (was: ho ricevuto una brutta notizia)
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(...) E se anche fosse, qual'è il problema? Ricordatevi di che hobby stiamo parlando! ;-) Un po' di MLCad preventivo, e si sistema tutto... se solo fosse esistito 13 anni fa... ma all'epoca avevo un 286 e il Web non era ancora stato inventato, era (...) (21 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: All plastic track
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(...) What make the most sense to me is... Conducting L-gauge track and non-conducting L-gauge track Chris (21 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: All plastic track
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(...) I'd say 'L-Gauge' defines the spacing of the track. If you want to distinguish between metal or plastic track then use some other terminology. Don't confuse the issue when some people have just started making headway into traditional model (...) (21 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: avevo dato una brutta notizia.. (was: ho ricevuto una brutta notizia)
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(...) Fiuuuu... (...) Sono stato io a dirglielo... Mario aveva detto che il plastico di ItLug era stato definitivamente smontato ed io avevo capito che tutto era stato smantellato... fa piacere anche a me che la stazione sia ancora integra! :-) (...) (21 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Error in part #590 [DAT]
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Hi, I don't know if I post in the right forum, but I wanted to notice you about an error I found in the part #590 Electric train motor 9V. It's about the 4 little hooks that are at the bottom of the motor (2 hooks on each side). I noticed these (...) (21 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: cerco set studios 1349
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(...) grazie per l'informazione...se ci capiti fammi sapere, altrimenti vedrò io di informarmi in qualche modo.. ciao! Matteo (21 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug.market)
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