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(...) Hi, Anton! Thanks for the explanation. That is a straightforward conversion. I divided LDView's reported camera location and lookat coordinates by 2.5, reversed the sign of the y coordinates, used the default right vector (positive x), and it (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | Re: 10183 postponed?
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(...) I don't think that I'm revealing any secrets by saying that yes, it is true 10183 has been delayed a few days. I don't know the details, but apparently the hold up is due to the printed instructions for the main model. I also just noticed that (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: I shall call him... Mini Me
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(...) Oh that little engine on the flatcar is just so cute! Small question tho, did you consider putting any 1x6 lt. grey plates on the drive wheels of the mini-model to better match the large engine's rods? Or did it seem they would be too big in (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Fun with LDView Fly Through (A Minifig's Eye View)
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(...) Jim, In the Converter I divide every coordinate the LDraw model has by 2.5 and then I end up with the millimeter system I digitized everything with. I have (since I started to build my Library starting in 1992) always used millimeters when (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | new NXT mailinglist established
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Hello! A new NXT mailinglist is established. Because there are no german mailinglists until now, this mailinglist is for german speaking (not necessary native) people around the world. You need an (free) yahoo account to participate! (URL) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Technic Manas Truck
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Hey guys... Might remember me... I posted the "Millenia Car" last year (was on the side bar for ages!). Anyway, finally got around to building something else (I lead a busy life). (URL) Technic truck based around the motor packs in the Bionicle (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Neue NXT Mailingliste
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Es gibt eine neue (deutschsprachige) Mailingliste, speziell für NXT Anwender: (URL) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.loc.de)
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| | Re: Microsoft Robotics Studio
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(...) Please let me know if you have much success. Several of us working on a robotics project tried the Oct and Nov 2006 releases and could not get the out-of-the-box Lego NXT demo to stay connected for more than about 60 seconds, even after hours (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Enhanced standard NXT firmware
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... (...) Hi John, I just tried to load it and just tested the "Try-me" light sensor. It worked fine. Not so much help, but I can try some more another day. Good work. Rasmus (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Battery Level NXT-G Block
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I've posted a new NXT-G Block that reads the battery level from the UI module IOMAP. Can also be used as a sensor block to detect low power conditions. Details and download: (URL) Ziv NXTasy.org (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: The Brick Testament - The call of Saul who is called Paul
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(...) Thanks Brendan, I always enjoy reading your updates. Or looking at the pictures anyway ;) Noticed a typo in Acts 15:6 - tesing -> testing. Regards ROSCO (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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| | The Brick Testament - The call of Saul who is called Paul
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(URL) The Brick Testament> website has been updated today with seven newly illustrated stories from the book of the (URL) of the Apostles>: (2 URLs) Blinds Saul> (2 URLs) Holy Prison Break> (2 URLs) Assassinated> (2 URLs) of Jesus> (2 URLs) Gets (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.ancient, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Announcing Bitsticker (and other txt/bit-to-dat utilities)
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(...) Neat. I have also (URL) used> (URL) autotrace>, a similar program. I haven't used either enough to recommend one over the other, but for some reason I do recall preferring potrace's output. (I've only used the programs, not programmed with (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Fun with LDView Fly Through (A Minifig's Eye View)
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(...) Ah, that's a logical explanation. I just looked in the manual.txt that came with Anton's part library and it does state that it considers a POV-Ray unit 1 millimeter. If one (URL) LDraw unit> is equal to 0.4 mm, then the conversion probably is (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | Re: Announcing Bitsticker (and other txt/bit-to-dat utilities)
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(...) Hmmm. It would appear that using the Potrace API and the Triangle API would do almost all the difficult work for software of this sort. I might look into restarting the project although I'm not sure how far I could get with it. Of course if (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Announcing Bitsticker (and other txt/bit-to-dat utilities)
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--snip-- (...) Unfortunately I got too busy with other things and kind of let is slide. With a rewrite in a compiled language and using a decent triangulation (such as the one Ross uses) and vectorisation algorithm I suspect it could be made to work (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | The Red Herring
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I had to finish off a GBC module, but some unrelated pieces fell in my hands and said to me "hey, we'd make a nice boat hull"... and so I ended up doing this instead: (URL) Red Herring>> I hadn't done anything remotely space-y since my youth, so (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Now Is The Time To Ship MOCs To BrickFest PDX
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Have some important news to pass along if you plan on shipping a MOC to Brickfest. If you have reservations for the Red Lion Hotel, you may ship your MOC there and they will not charge a holding fee. If you don't have their address, here is is- Red (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: New Brown Town Buildings (pics)
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(...) :-) (URL) HERE> is a pic of the revision taken at our train show exhibition this past weekend. Thanks again! JOHN (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: Fun with LDView Fly Through (A Minifig's Eye View)
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(Moved to lugnet.cad.ray.) (...) I think Anton's library isn't in LDraw units. Since the camera placement is in LDraw units, it won't work right. If you know the conversion factor, you can probably multiply the camera location by that and have it (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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