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Well, I'm a little disappointed. Much of what is said in the article is not what I said in the interview. Oh well. Below is the link and the article should be in print in today's Chronicle in the "96 Hours" section. (URL) (16 years ago, 11-Dec-08, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.baylug, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: Colinear Vertices
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(...) Thanks, Travis. BTW, are there guidelines for part authors that would improve smooth shading? What about precision in coincidence between conditional lines and matching polygon sides? I have seen _many_ instances where a quad should blend into (...) (16 years ago, 11-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Colinear Vertices
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(...) I looked at LDDP sources (very clear BTW!). Threshold is compared against square of cross product of each angle of quad. So it depends of size of quad to 4th power! Not very good imho, but since it works for such a long time I used the same (...) (16 years ago, 11-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: SR 3D Builder version 3.2.2.3 just released
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(...) MLCad keyboard controls are not supported since the user interface is totally different and parts are by far much more easy to place and connect MPD saving is not supported, but .L3B format is compatible with .LDR except for some metacommand (...) (16 years ago, 10-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Creator Adventcalender 2004 - Xmas Blog
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(...) Oooo! What fun! Thanks for sharing this. I must admit, I miss the advent calendars like this, with simple pieces because I used to enjoy designing alternate models as the days went on. Remember 1998's set 1298? wow. ten years ago now: (URL) (16 years ago, 11-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | New 2009 sets at Lego Brand (was: New 2009 sets at Toys-R-Us!)
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(...) The Lego brand store in Burlington, MA also has a few sets from the new pirate line as of this week. I happened to be in the area, decided to buy some Christmas gifts for my best friend's kids. Honest! I had no intention of spending more money (...) (16 years ago, 11-Dec-08, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Brown Box Cars
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I have been meaning to build some brown ones... totally inspired by Ben Coifman. Even have the 1x4x3 brown panels in place waiting to be engraved! I added a strip, black and chocolate brown, just for good measure. Maybe I'll do another rev... maybe (...) (16 years ago, 10-Dec-08, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Selling Old MAERSK Ship Model
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Most of you know that Maersk is the Danish transportation company that commissioned TLG to produce several truck and ship models since 1974. The most famous Maersk LEGO models are the 2 Maersk LEGO ships. The first was the extremely expensive 1974 (...) (16 years ago, 10-Dec-08, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, FTX)
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| | Call for event graphic submissions
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BrickFest ’09 - Portland, OR - March 27-29th, 2009 The BrickFest ’09 team invites the creative designers and artists of the AFOL community to submit graphic ideas/artwork for the official BrickFest ‘09 event graphic. It will be used on items such (...) (16 years ago, 10-Dec-08, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.org, lugnet.people, lugnet.general)
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| | Shop @Home Phone Specials for Wednesday, December 10, 2008, to Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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Item #4939 Creator Cool Cars Retail Price $12.99 Sale Price $7.98 Item #8686 Bionicle Toa Lewa Retail Price $12.99 Sale Price $4.98 Item #8685 Bionicle Toa Kopaka Retail Price $12.99 Sale Price $4.98 Item #8687 Bionicle Toa Pohatu Retail Price (...) (16 years ago, 10-Dec-08, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Rendering for liberty
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(...) Nice! You could also try wrapping a real photograph of the sunset around a sphere. -Mike (16 years ago, 10-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Creator Adventcalender 2004 - Xmas Blog
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Hi all, On December 1 I started a (Dutch) blog for the Creator Adventcalender from 2004. It features full building instructions for the daily model, its alternative model and downloadable LDR and PDF files. As of today, December 8 there is an (...) (16 years ago, 10-Dec-08, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Rendering for liberty
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I've been working on honing my skills at the whole rendering thing using many of the tools written by members of this forum and with knowledge gleaned here. I thought it was time to share! I asked my kids which model they would like me to use for a (...) (16 years ago, 10-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Colinear Vertices
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(...) It depends on what your threshold is but taking the difference (as you do in a cross product) of two big numbers is less accurate (very much so sometimes) than taking the difference of two smaller numbers. Even without this issue it means that (...) (16 years ago, 9-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Colinear Vertices
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(...) No, I just take the cross product, and if the length (squared) is 0, I give an error. I don't see how normalizing the length of the two vectors that I feed into the cross product would improve things much here. Sure, it might mean that my (...) (16 years ago, 9-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: SR 3D Builder version 3.2.2.3 just released
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(...) Wow! Very impressive! I will definitely have to try it out. A couple of questions: are MLCAD's keyboard controls supported? Can I export back into LDR/MPD format? What does the model tree look like? -Mike (16 years ago, 9-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Colinear Vertices
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--snip-- (...) I assume that you divide by the vector lengths first (as in normalise them before taking the cross-product) but if you don't then you should. Tim (16 years ago, 9-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Colinear Vertices
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(...) If they're on a curved surface, you'll get higher quality out of LDView half the time if you split them into triangles. (I say half the time, because OpenGL splits them into triangles in order to render them, and half the time they'll be split (...) (16 years ago, 9-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Colinear Vertices
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(...) As far as I can see the threshold is the number of digits that are used to determine wheather a value is the same as the other. So if you use 6.0 and 6.0001 with a threshold of 0.0001 the value are interpreted to be the same. That makes sense (...) (16 years ago, 9-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Opinions needed for Color and Edge Values
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(...) Good timing on your response. We are going through the transparent colors now. I also agree that the transparent colors look washed out. I believe that the RGB values are how they would appear on a white background, but they do not render well (...) (16 years ago, 9-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad)
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