 | | January 30th, 2010 SMART Meeting
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Happy New Year, SMART members! And Happy 10th Anniversary!!! Yes, ten years ago we had our first SMART meeting. It doesn't feel nearly that long, but I guess that means we've been having a lot of fun! This month the fun continues with our latest (...) (15 years ago, 17-Jan-10, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | LEGO Atlantis TV show?
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I was checking for something else in the TV listings for Saturday when I noticed that Cartoon Network will be running a half hour program called "Lego Atlantis" at 9:30am. It appears to be a one-shot program with no scheduled repeats, and it has the (...) (15 years ago, 16-Jan-10, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.aquazone)
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| | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés vendredi 15 janvier 2010
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Bonjour Voici la lettre d'information du site "FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group" ((URL) lettre recense les articles et les brèves publiés depuis 1 jour. Nouvelles brèves ---...--- * Les LEGO comme outils de conception d'espaces de (...) (15 years ago, 16-Jan-10, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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| | Re: LEGOCLICK.COM : Find Your Inspiration
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(...) I concur. At the risk of appearing to exaggerate, I would call that just about the worst site I've ever visited, at least in terms of navigation. It seems to be intentionally designed to be off-putting and annoying to visitors. I don't care if (...) (15 years ago, 16-Jan-10, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | DualGrip - NXT Rover (DG) - my latest creation
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Hey folks, It's been a while since I last made a bot. My latest is DualGrip - NXTRover (or DG for short). I wont go into great detail as all info (with videos) can be found at my site (URL) but DG has both tracks and wheels and uses an acceleration (...) (15 years ago, 15-Jan-10, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | TRU sale on city, agent and bionicle
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Two week flyer at TRU good from Friday 15th to Thursday January 28th. I wasn't expecting LEGO on sale this time of year. 20% off all LEGO City and Agents sets. 30% off all $12.99 and $14.99 Bionicle cans. As always, be cautious as TRU prices are (...) (15 years ago, 15-Jan-10, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | OMG!!!!
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So I'm at zZellers just a few moments ago, checking to see if there's any 'after christmas clearances'.... nope. Check out the Bionicle.. meh, tubs o' bricks--finally... technic--nice but naah... Atlantis--great figs but naah--saving my mone... (...) (15 years ago, 15-Jan-10, to lugnet.org.ca.obb)
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| | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés jeudi 14 janvier 2010
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Bonjour Voici la lettre d'information du site "FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group" ((URL) lettre recense les articles et les brèves publiés depuis 1 jour. Nouveaux articles ---...--- ** Exposition Ciney (Belgique) les 14 & 15 novembre (...) (15 years ago, 15-Jan-10, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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| | Re: POV dat for L3P v1.4 - 3626bpse - Minifig Head with SW Scout Trooper Black Visor Pattern - POV
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(...) Sorry for the late answer. L3P v1.4 has L3Version declared, v1.3 has not. #ifdef (L3Version) material { L3Color0 } #else #if (version >= 3.1) material #else texture #end { Color0 } #end (L3P v1.4 does not support PovRay < 3.1) For the studs I (...) (15 years ago, 14-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: new moc: sliding house
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Deborah Higdon wrote: snip (...) That's a beautiful rendition! I saw a youtube of the house a while back and was impressed then. The idea that you did it justice in LEGO... very nice! Can't wait to see it in person! Dave K (15 years ago, 14-Jan-10, to lugnet.build.arch, FTX)
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| | Re: MPD - add all subfiles as submodels
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(...) Ah, great! I looked at MPDwizard but that trick did not occur to me. Thanks, Philo. Jim (15 years ago, 14-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: MPD - add all subfiles as submodels
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(...) Yes, MPDwizard ((URL) does that fine. The trick is to select your LDraw folder as "unofficial parts" folder, select any empty directory as official parts folder and check "choose unofficial parts over official parts". Everything is recursively (...) (15 years ago, 14-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | MPD - add all subfiles as submodels
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Has anyone written a tool that can append all linetype 1 sub-file references as MPD submodels? Similar to how we sometimes include unofficial parts in the MPD, except recursively adding all needed parts and sub-parts from library. If not, I may hack (...) (15 years ago, 14-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw Parts of HiTechnic Sensors and Multiplexers now available
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Thank You Philo! ...and Gus for posting. Littlehorn (15 years ago, 14-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | Re: Looking for entries for a film show
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(...) Hi Duane, (URL) I created this movie about a month ago and just saw your post. You’re welcome to show it and if you need it in another format, I’d be happy to help. Jaron (15 years ago, 14-Jan-10, to lugnet.animation, FTX)
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| | new moc: sliding house
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(2 URLs) much of 2009 was spent working on my newest house moc, a replica of an actual house in suffolk, england. the award-winning design of the sliding house features a motorized shell that moves over two buildings to create a variety of forms, (...) (15 years ago, 14-Jan-10, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town, FTX) !!
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| | Altered States site update
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site has been updated/moved from geocities/yahoo. i'm now at: (URL) as a source for alternate model ideas. ..joseph g (15 years ago, 13-Jan-10, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Simple LDraw viewer code for Processing.org
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(...) On my XP with already installed (and current) Java I did not have to download anything more. cu mikeheide (15 years ago, 13-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Upcomming OBB Display this Sunday Jan. 17th until Feb. 21st
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Ladies and Gentlemen... Coming this Sunday... At the St Jacobs Outlet Mall... the Ontario Brick Builders will be displaying MOCS, Classic Space, a Train Layout and anything else anyone wants to bring. Set up starts at noon on the 17th. We would love (...) (15 years ago, 13-Jan-10, to lugnet.org.ca.obb, lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment)
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| | Re: Simple LDraw viewer code for Processing.org
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(...) Yep, I tested it in Safari and Firefox on my Mac and in Firefox on XP before posting it. I already had Java in both cases, but if I understand correctly it does prompt you to download the plugin if you need it, right? Jim (15 years ago, 13-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Simple LDraw viewer code for Processing.org
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(...) download and upgrade the Java plugin. Will one be able to display this in another browser Chrome or on another platform like MacOS? (...) Me too. This looks very exciting! Jaco (15 years ago, 13-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés mardi 12 janvier 2010
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Bonjour Voici la lettre d'information du site "FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group" ((URL) lettre recense les articles et les brèves publiés depuis 1 jour. Nouveaux articles ---...--- ** NXTBall ** par Ghislain Baudon le 12 janvier 2010 (...) (15 years ago, 13-Jan-10, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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| | LDraw Parts of HiTechnic Sensors and Multiplexers now available
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A couple of months ago I worked with Philo on creating a complete set of LDraw parts for the HiTechnic sensors and multiplexers. These are now available for download from the HiTechnic downloads page. Look near the bottom of (URL). This LDraw parts (...) (15 years ago, 13-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.robotics, FTX) !
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| | Re: Datsville Link
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(...) No problem. Sorry it took so long for me to catch a clue that it needed to be changed. (15 years ago, 13-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Datsville Link
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(...) Thanks, Steve! :) /Tore (15 years ago, 13-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Datsville Link
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(...) OK. (15 years ago, 13-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Datsville Link
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(...) Meanwhile, we could replace that dead link with some note saying "Waiting for a new site" or something like that. /Tore (15 years ago, 12-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LEGOCLICK.COM : Find Your Inspiration
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(...) I found the press release more interesting. Tim (15 years ago, 13-Jan-10, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Log Cabin! (Was: GallaghersArt.com Forums now open)
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(...) Datsville! /Tore (15 years ago, 12-Jan-10, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LEGOCLICK.COM : Find Your Inspiration
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(...) Agreed. Lacking meaningful purpose. Site Layout is innovative, but not an impovement in functionality. Yet another site that takes away from existing sites that offer history and better content. (15 years ago, 12-Jan-10, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | GallaghersArt.com Forums now open
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I just made my own forums live over the weekend. The main purpose at this time is to allow me to release some of the LDraw files that go with some of my MOC’s, enable more info to be posted without creating more pages and bogging down my main site, (...) (15 years ago, 12-Jan-10, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGOCLICK.COM : Find Your Inspiration
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Too bad the site is confusing, difficult to navigate and has no clear purpose. Other than than it's a guaranteed win! (15 years ago, 12-Jan-10, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Re: Simple LDraw viewer code for Processing.org
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(...) That is the key question. I have not tried a larger model yet (it takes some preparation first to inline the model). I think I first may try to address the question of how to efficiently enable part library access for the embedded viewer. (...) (15 years ago, 12-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Simple LDraw viewer code for Processing.org
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(...) Incidentally, Processing does have an OpenGL renderer (JOGL), although I haven't done any sort of testing to see how significant the performance benefit is. I used the software renderer for the web viewer I posted just because the support (...) (15 years ago, 12-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Simple LDraw viewer code for Processing.org
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(...) I tried to write a viewer once too (as a series of experimentation of maybe having done a CAD program for parts authors!) using Tcl and OpenGL, but it turned out to be *REALLY* slow, most probably due to bad subfile handling. While the Animal (...) (15 years ago, 12-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés lundi 11 janvier 2010
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Bonjour Voici la lettre d'information du site "FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group" ((URL) lettre recense les articles et les brèves publiés depuis 1 jour. Nouveaux articles ---...--- ** 8073 - Le guerrier Manta ** par Manu "Gyclore" (...) (15 years ago, 12-Jan-10, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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| | Re: SR 3D Builder 0.4.5.7 RELEASED
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(...) Please let me know your graphic adapter model and I'll let you know if it can work... better via email since this can bore other users... (...) Please note that ONLY SOME ATI card have problems. So long I get errors with ATI 1300, 1400 and (...) (15 years ago, 12-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Simple LDraw viewer code for Processing.org
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(...) Here it looks very promising. But what will be the loading time if I have larger models? I would be very interested in this kind of app as it will make things much more easy to display models to the webside visitor (see my "personal OMR" at (...) (15 years ago, 12-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Simple LDraw viewer code for Processing.org
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(...) That looks very good. I have also made an attempt to build a viewer, but it is also very limited in what it can do (very little files if you do not wait an hour, no optional lines, but it could read subfiles). As I discovered that it is quite (...) (15 years ago, 12-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Minifig Extractor/Manipulator?
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(...) Here is what I have found out about that META commands: 0 ROTATION CENTER 0 0 0 1 "Custom1" 0 ROTATION CENTER 2 3 4 1 "New Custom" The first three numbers are the xyz values of the rotation point The fourth number indicates the "Allow (...) (15 years ago, 12-Jan-10, to lugnet.cad)
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