 | | 8094 mod: automatic plotter (memorizes in control center)
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Hi, I've been building the 8094 models recently with my 8485 (and spares.) Then I realized that the 8094's original plotter model really sucks: you can't really memorize a pattern to let the machine write for you since the pen needs to be lifted and (...) (17 years ago, 25-Jul-07, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | RE: stop task
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Everyone, Being fair in the judgement in using a global watchdog flag to terminate a task. Honestly, when I have a multi-threaded process, I have always used a watchdog type of flag, mutex, semaphore, etc. to signal a thread to terminate. I hardly (...) (17 years ago, 25-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Ultimate SW Minifig Accessory - Tauntaun
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VERY nice - don't keep it a secret, tell me how you did this :) (17 years ago, 25-Jul-07, to lugnet.build.minifigs, FTX)
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| | Ultimate SW Minifig Accessory - Tauntaun
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Think the title says it all, here are the pics: (4 URLs) Pictures are links to larger images Better pictures to follow, this is the initial go round. Kam (17 years ago, 25-Jul-07, to lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.parts.custom, lugnet.parts.mod, lugnet.announce, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.starwars, FTX) !
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| | Re: New military aircraft: F-117A Stealth fighter and Su-27 Flanker
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(...) Ralph, Very nice, both of them. I was big into military aircraft in high school (so many years ago) and these brought back some good memories. One of these days, I'll get around to building some modern war-birds. What did you use for the glass (...) (17 years ago, 24-Jul-07, to lugnet.build.military, FTX)
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| | Re: Sticker Generator for LDRAW / MLCAD
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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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| | Kiddicraft and Lego
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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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| | Re: Sticker Generator for LDRAW / MLCAD
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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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| | Re: Sticker Generator for LDRAW / MLCAD
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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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| | Re: Sticker Generator for LDRAW / MLCAD
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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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| | Re: Sticker Generator for LDRAW / MLCAD
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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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| | Re: Sticker Generator for LDRAW / MLCAD
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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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| | Re: Sticker Generator for LDRAW / MLCAD
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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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| | Re: stop task
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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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| | Re: Sticker Generator for LDRAW / MLCAD
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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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| | Re: Sticker Generator for LDRAW / MLCAD
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I have just tested your prog. It seems to me that you put for every pixel one quad. This produces an enormous amount of bytes in a file. There was already a prog that was called bmp2dat. If you could rearrange the quads that are direct beside into (...) (17 years ago, 24-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Peeron Inventory
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July 24 1804-1: Crossbow Boat inventory is correct (17 years ago, 24-Jul-07, to lugnet.inv)
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| | Re: stop task
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(...) It is not a rather awkward option, imho. That's like saying breaking out of an infinite loop using a flag is awkward and that it would be better to have some form of stop loop keyword that you could use from outside the loop instead. Is it (...) (17 years ago, 24-Jul-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | ILTCO @ NMRA NTS - Printable info sheet for show
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Hi All, The below link is a compact info sheet (printable) for the ILTCO @ NMRA National Train Show. If you're planning to come its a great way to have the schedule and contact info in your pocket! :) (URL) Chris & SteveB (17 years ago, 24-Jul-07, to lugnet.events, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: Back after 5 years - trying to catch up
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Hey Doug, Welcome back! As others have noted, there has been a proliferation of groups out there. With each new group there has been a renewed discussion of whether or not this is a good thing. As an admin and major poster at Classic-Castle, I'm (...) (17 years ago, 24-Jul-07, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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