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Color 462 worked for me, with the following POV definition from L3P: #declare Color462 = #if (version >= 3.1) material { #end texture { pigment { rgb <1,0.754902,0.170588> } finish { ambient AMB diffuse DIF } #if (QUAL > 1) finish { phong 0.5 (...) (27 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | all-LEGO stepper motor (was Re: r/c servos and firmware
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(...) It looks like I might not be able to do this today. My web hosting service (hostsave.com) stopped providing my web pages sometime in the last 24 hours and I'm not sure how long it will take to get them to fix it. Also, a correction: I meant to (...) (27 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: i think i need a hug
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I had the same thing happen, I was bidding on a really nice Space set piece assortment (it had like 30 sets or so, from all spectrums of Space series (Futuron, Classic, Blacktron, SP1 & 2, etc.) and I got into a bidding war with Larry P.(I think) (...) (27 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad)
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What color number did you use for the orange? I've tried everything that had been suggested, but I still can't get orange. Ryan "As long as you stay strong in the Word, you won't allow temptations to manifest themselves." Mike Stanley ***...*** (...) (27 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad)
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Hey, sometimes it works out OK. I had held high bid on one particular set of pieces for a good length of time, and then as I was checking just before it closed someone had outbid me, but fortunately I was able to get my bid in with something like 19 (...) (27 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: CFV: Jonathan Wilson's posting privileges on LUGNET, REV 1.1
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(...) Some of us think there is, and some of us, (including many stalwarts) feel they've been trying for many many months and have exhausted all the other alternatives. I dunno who is right, which is one reason why I suspect a vote was taken. I (...) (27 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Catastrophic Earthquake In Turkey (Was Re: Take a Look at This)
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(...) I'm glad to hear that. I was really hoping you'd be okay -- I don't know anyone else who lives in Turkey. (...) I really don't know what to say. I wish I had taken the EMT training, so I'd be able to volunteer to help in person. Money always (...) (27 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Still bargains on my SC lots (was Re: FA - SC items - 6982 exploriens starship, 8456 technic fiber, custom hopper
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(...) SC, unlike eBay, lets you configure your level of information. If you set to just daily report, you'll get a note once a day about all auctions you're in... One note a day doesn't seem THAT bad... There is not a choice to get NO notification, (...) (27 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: CFV: Jonathan Wilson's posting privileges on LUGNET, REV 1.1
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In article <FGxBz2.D9F@lugnet.com>, John VanZwieten <john_vanzwieten@ema il.msn.com> writes (...) No problem :-) I'm not currently interested in the CAD groups, and this vote came as a bit of a shock. Bearing in mind the good nature of the people (...) (27 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Help needed with the cross compiler setup for legOS
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=>From: sjkang <sjkang@ee.kyungpook.ac.kr> =>... =>Please help me how to build the cross compile environment for legOS in =>the Linux! Have you ever built GCC? If not, it's probably useful to run through a native build & install (and make sure it (...) (27 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Still bargains on my SC lots (was Re: FA - SC items - 6982 exploriens starship, 8456 technic fiber, custom hopper
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(...) Thanks for the heads-up! Look for a 'minimal mail' option on SeriousCollector soon. I'd very much like your input on what would be best for you as far as email notification frequency.... Derick Bulkley SeriousCollector.Com (URL) (27 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Check out my minifig-scale Droideka
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(...) I'll get it on my Web page soon... It's not yet a completey accurate rendering, tho, until I can swipe the LDraw part for the Pirate sword. I might leave it with the knives, I dunno... (...) If you can spare an ix86 machine with about 100Mb (...) (27 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build)
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(...) Hey, thanks for the vote of confidence! I wasn't sure I wasn't "trespassing" or anything by uploading my robot design here. That's good news. I look forward to seeing your robotic arm design. Ian (27 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: U.S. Lego (Was Re: What is Samsonite Lego?)
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I'm sure there are a lot of nuances that went into this decision. The Danish company was only into its' 8th year of exporting it's product when it entered the US market. As to whether tariffs were a consideration, I'm sure they were. Even the sets (...) (27 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) OK, here it is: (URL) can find other include files here: (URL) (27 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I'm getting a good deal of inspiration from everybody's links - thanks guys! Alex - great designs. You have a good selection of differential apparatuses (apparati? :) ) on your page. How fast do your rovers go? I've tried several designs of my (...) (27 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Tom McDonald <radiotitan@yanospamhoo.com> wrote in message news:FGwHBq.MH7@lugnet.com... (...) McDonald is not a jewish name? (27 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: The Ruthlessness of Lego was (Re: Spare Parts Service - How it works)
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I can understand Marks perspective, and I can understand why he would like it all to go to Australia ..... (to replentish the old Lego supply that those not too smart LEGO Australia folks destroyed). But rather than leaving it sitting in storage for (...) (27 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Gettig Motor Division G-type [DAT]
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My new car theme! It's a division of the Gettig Aero Space corporation that manufactors Hornet, Mace,and Swordfish space fighters(mechs are under development). The G-type is the road going sports car basis of my other high performance cars. Unlike (...) (27 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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(...) (URL) is a design that worked well for me (and I still have it together if you want better pictures). I've had it running for up to an hour around my living room without getting caught on anything. alex -- Did you check the web site first?: (...) (27 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Colonial Viper
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(...) Thanks! Before I cleaned up the LEGO in the LEGO room and sorted all of it (which took about 4 weeks, on and off), I wasn't sure I'd have enough of those pieces. I knew I the X-Wing engines would be too small, but I wasn't sure what to use (...) (27 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.cad, lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Colonial Viper
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(...) Thanks! (...) That was one of my main goals, which wasn't so easy considering my limited supply of orange (I had to use 1x4 plates vertically in the tail for lack of 1x1 bricks) Although I usually apply stickers to TLG models when I buy them, (...) (27 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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| | Catastrophic Earthquake In Turkey (Was Re: Take a Look at This)
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Larry, Jeff, and other dear friends, Hopefully, me, my wife and my parents are all OK. Even my wife's parents are OK (by miracle), they were living in Degirmendere, which is the almost exact centre of the quake). I returned back to home from the (...) (27 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: CFV: Jonathan Wilson's posting privileges on LUGNET, REV 1.1
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Tony Priestman <Tony@you-rang.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:Xy5anEAMzAw3EwE...n.co.uk... (...) _PLEASE_ NOTE: All the lugnet.cad* groups invite novices who want help honing their skills. Those of us who author parts _love_ to guide newbies in (...) (27 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Lego designer interviewed in Swedish Newspaper
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(...) Nuernberg (Nuremburg) Toy Fair .... isn't that Europes largest toy fair? And my cousin (who owns a Teddy Bear factory 60 miles north of Nuremburg) always goes to that fair every February ..... hmmmmmmm, I wonder if she could take me along (...) (27 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep
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Hey Tom, Thanks - I've been trying to remember the toy store name where I got the large number of London Bus and Lear Jet sets back in the 1980's. It was KB Toys, the toy Liquidator! (I don't think they have Detroit area stores any more.) That (...) (27 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: wishing upon a star
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(...) attributes (...) As easy as this might be for basic plates and bricks, most of us know the real Lego part numbers for those anyway - and this would get pretty hairy when the part isn't a basic shape. I think that any eventual part (...) (27 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.inv)
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| | Re: Bulk Ordering - Secrets Revealed.
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Thanks Beth, All additional folks are welcome to add their name to the letter. I am still rewriting it, and "toning down the rhetoric". So far I have about 30 signators to the letter. I will be sending out another request for more signators after (...) (27 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Eliminate high-speed derailments forever! (and possibly void your warranty)
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(...) that's (...) transformer (...) transformer (...) by transformer do you mean the lego speed controller? If it's a yes there is no problem feeding it with 7.5V DC. The input will accept 9V to 12V AC or DC for full performance (0V to 9V at the (...) (27 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep
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(...) It's nothing to do with ripping people off, it's the overall local prices. IIRC The Bay Area has the *highest* cost of living in the entire 48 contiguous states. Right now, gas prices are sucking in MI--they're hanging around $1.25/gal for 87 (...) (27 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 10x20 green baseplates
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Well, there were a lot of sets in the 1970's that had those 10x20 green (1 brick thick) baseplates with the tubes around the bottom inside edge. Several sets come to mind immediately - 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 148, 149. Back in (...) (27 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Anti-sniping gizmo at BRICKS
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(...) Oh, that's not an original thing by any means. Serious Collector auctions also work that way. Glad you like it, though. :) (27 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Still bargains on my SC lots (was Re: FA - SC items - 6982 exploriens starship, 8456 technic fiber, custom hopper
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(...) I'd be tempted to bid but I'm afraid of being spammed daily once I get outbid. Still, those are really cool boats. Dunno how I'd fit them into my world, but they're cool nonetheless. (27 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Eliminate high-speed derailments forever! (and possibly void your warranty)
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FWIW: I have two LEGO train transformers that are labeled for an output of 12 VAC and two that are labeled for an output of 11 VAC. Both rate the power output at 7 VA. One of my speed controllers is labeled for an input of 9-11 VAC, and three for an (...) (27 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: robotic rovers
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Ian Warfield <ipw47@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:FGuCKz.CoC@lugnet.com... (...) This is the perfect place to put such a model. One of the purposes of the cad.dat* groups is for people to post .dat's to talk about in other groups. So far, this (...) (27 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Pirate sails
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Greetings, I have seen and heard about people looking for LEGO pirate ship sails. I make them from cloth, stiffened and customized with a logo of any kind. I have recently sold a set on ebay for the Skulls Eye Schooner (6286). (URL) will be another (...) (27 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: backgrounds logo image (was: Re: [ldraw.org] Update)
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Once again, insufficient precision results in my looking rather foolish (but I meant to do that, I never make misteaks). (...) <various hypothetical, but not branded, non text ways of depicting a hyperlink> What I was getting at is that while (...) (27 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Colonial Viper
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This is really great! The coloring is wonderful, and I love your use of the 1X2 rounded brick/place combo pieces--especially on the front. Nice job detailing the cockpit, too. And nice POV work. -John Van P.S. I hope I've been effusive enough for (...) (27 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.cad, lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: some questions ( LDraw )
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(...) GIF is probably better to compress an image with few colours and strong contrasts. JPEG does a Fourier transform of each 8x8 pixel box (as I have understood), and is generally only well suited for images which are fairly smooth. I my opinion, (...) (27 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Still bargains on my SC lots (was Re: FA - SC items - 6982 exploriens starship, 8456 technic fiber, custom hopper
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Still lots of really good deals on my items. Many have no bids at all and are significantly BELOW the recently concluded "500" auction. The problems with SC should be resolved, I am able to get to it. Here are all the current LEGO(r) lots: (URL) are (...) (27 years ago, 23-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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