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(...) Nelson- OK, I'll bite: Why would you need to keep ideas submitted to TLC on behalf of the community secret from the community? -Ted SCLTC (17 years ago, 25-Jul-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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| | Re: Brickshelf Status
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I'm fairly sure the first part of this post has already been mentioned in this discussion, but I'll echo it with different words. Restricting images to non-.bmp formats will save a lot of space for starters, as will pixel limits. I have images that (...) (17 years ago, 25-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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| | He has returned...
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King Jayko and his brave knights had thought Vladek was defeated for good. he had been slain in battle at the Mistlands Tower. His surviving Scorpion and Rogue Knights have been imprisoned or executed. All of them, except for one... A lone soldier (...) (17 years ago, 25-Jul-07, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | Re: BrickFest 2001 Photos of Jessimans?
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(...) I totally forgot that the old version of the site was still online. That's pretty cool :-) I seem to recall a photo taken with me and the Jessimans, maybe I'm misremembering. I think what's there might be it, thanks, Travis! -Tim (17 years ago, 25-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.people)
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| | l2rib and LDraw.org Mac Downloads Review
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A few notes based on a browse through the (URL) Downloads> page: (URL) l2rib>, a utility that converts LDraw files to RenderMan format, builds and runs on Mac OS X (make -f Makefile.unix). I do not have a RenderMan compliant renderer (there are a (...) (17 years ago, 25-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | 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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