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(...) If you can work out regions of identical colour I believe there is a theory that says you can fill it with no more than 2N (where N is the number of corners) triangles. This is probably a good way of doing it for complex shapes. If I ever get (...) (17 years ago, 25-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad)
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Hilary Fisher Page and Kiddicraft Anyone who has followed Lego history, or who perhaps has studied British educational toys, by now surely knows the connection between Hilary Fisher Page’s Self-Locking Building Brick and Lego’s Automatic Binding (...) (17 years ago, 25-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, FTX) !!
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(...) Keep in mind that doing it both ways is probably a lot more difficult than just doing it one way. For example, if you have a 1-pixel thick plus sign, you need at least 3 quads (to avoid overlap), and your algorithm needs to deal nicely with (...) (17 years ago, 24-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Sorry, long quads is really what I meant by a line. So, that's exactly what the program does. I should have an update out later today or tomorrow that combines pixels vertically as well. Thanks, Scott (17 years ago, 24-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hi Scott, It will be better if you put adjacent horizontal pixels into a long quad rather than a line. The renderer POV-Ray does not support the concept of lines, so they are tossed when L3P converts you LDraw file to a POV file. Kevin (17 years ago, 24-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Almost...I combine pixels of the same color that are on the same horizontal line. So, if pixels 1 through 5 are the same color, they become a line that ocupies 1 through 5. Most of my stickers have been about 1MB. I wasn't aware of the other (...) (17 years ago, 24-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad)
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&tIn lugnet.cad, Michael Heidemann wrote: It seems to me that you put for every pixel one quad. This produces an (...) This is the approach also used by Bitsticker. It is certainly not optimal. (...) Tim Gould's (URL) img2sticker> script uses a (...) (17 years ago, 24-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) So, I know of at least four tools to convert images to LDraw stickers: (URL) BMP2DAT> (URL) img2sticker> ((URL) *>) (URL) Bitsticker> (URL) Sticker Generator> Plus you can make stickers from text with (URL) txt2dat>. I think this is a case of (...) (17 years ago, 24-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Well, you may not consider that awkward, but having been able to use the "stop" & "start" task commands in NQC, I do actually consider it very awkward. For instance, if I want to immediately stop some task under the "stock" FW... well, I (...) (17 years ago, 24-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Both of these applications are very cool, and I intend to begin using them immediately. Do you guys mind if I ask a dumb question? That is, another dumb question after these two? Are these applications an evolution of the various BMP2DAT (...) (17 years ago, 24-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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