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(...) Okay... 15% speedup is substantial... that means that it's better to pre-transform the subfiles when generating the operations for the current file. I won't worry about the maximum depth any more then. (...) How does a renderer know which (...) (20 years ago, 7-Sep-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Steven, you are truly the master of the minifig fire and rescue apparatus. The detail and scope of your work is amazing. I think you should try to move the front axles of your SuperDuty chassis trucks forward a stud or two to more properly (...) (20 years ago, 7-Sep-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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I have Robolab 2.5 and don't know how to install on a new Mac, or if it can even be done. If it can be, what is the procedure? (20 years ago, 7-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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(...) Same here for LDView. LDView always flattens part geometry, and this seems to improve performance enough to be noticed. LDView does use a display list for each part, and a nested display list for each nesting level above that (as long as you (...) (20 years ago, 7-Sep-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Scorpion Plans
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(...) The graphic files (if you installed in the "standard" location) are located at: C:\Program Files\LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT\engine\EditorVIs\Academy Content\activities\a...1\bi\*.jpg (plus ..\02\bi\*.jpg, ..\03\bi\*.jpg, and ..\04\bi\*.jpg) You could (...) (20 years ago, 7-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) MPD files don't add that many extra levels... usually only 2, isn't it? Further, the only stacking that generally needs to occur at the mpd level is modification of the modelview matrix, which opengl guarantees a minimum of 32. It's only in (...) (20 years ago, 7-Sep-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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BrickWest. I think that would be great. It is a lot easier to make it to California with my creations. Larry (20 years ago, 7-Sep-06, to lugnet.events)
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Well I got Harold, but no Cranky to be seen at my local Target. (20 years ago, 7-Sep-06, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I tested the performance of, and saw a decent gain from flattening part geometry. (Perhaps 15% in BrickDraw3D for QuickDraw3D or OpenGL.) What this means is that when a part is prepared into a drawing list, it is not a list of calls to (...) (20 years ago, 7-Sep-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: NXT Ultrasonic sensor / Retreiving 8 OBjects at Once
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(...) (URL) Hansen (20 years ago, 7-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I'm definitely interested in attending another fan event at LEGOLAND. The draw of visiting the park and AFOL MOC displays in the park make it a great location. Two or three days with a mix of public displays and convention seminars seems to (...) (20 years ago, 7-Sep-06, to lugnet.events)
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(...) As far as building instructions go, LPub only provides for unique background color/backdrop for up to four levels. This is about as much as I've ever seen in LEGO building instructions. The renderers take care of nesting within individual part (...) (20 years ago, 7-Sep-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) LOL!! That may be an idea for next year. To come up with a mindstorms concept/competition that appeals to the other gender as well...maybe Bunnie or our significant others can come up with it! Dave (20 years ago, 7-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I raised this issue in June when discussing GBC reliability, seeing that 1 bps implies a measured time interval. Of course, what is the interval?, I asked. The general consensus is that it is a 30 second time interval. As such, the worst you (...) (20 years ago, 7-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) You see, building with real bricks isn't that bad. ;-) j/k Nicely done, Tim! I really like all the angles on this chopper. You must have used some real crafty (and compact) SNOT to do that. I'm really interested in how you did it. Will you be (...) (20 years ago, 7-Sep-06, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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In lugnet.town, Jonathan Lopes wrote: (snipped) (...) I've tried a couple of times to build one of those. But I could never come up with a satisfactory design for the cab/windscreen. (URL) Photo here> It's the combination of the flat windscreen and (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: Hey, BrickShelf-users, seen this?
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--snip-- (...) Exhibit A (URL) B (URL) really not that hard [1] to keep people unannoyed but good photography requires practise and, most importantly, chucking away crap pictures. I usually shoot about 3 or 4 times as many as I use and I know for (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Okay, I have read the followups to this post, and I have read a recent followup to another post of mine over at Lugnet Announce Creation/MOC's where ALE Linus Bohman kindly gave me some tips on photography for my MOC's. I am not camera savvy, (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I personally use IrfanView since it's free: (URL) If you go to the FAQ page on the IrfanView site, and scroll down to the very bottom, you'll find several tutorials on batch resizing and batch conversion. I used IrfanView to batch resize the (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.general)
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This here: (...) Is exactly what I want to do! Do you have any links? If any of your friends have any of their work online I'd love to check it out.. Thanks! Ben (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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