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Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention? —Selçuk Göre

Actually subject line says all. How about making a move about it? Many efforts ongoing around the community requires this. The first examples that come to mind are piece auctions, set inventory database and Lego CAD studies. We have already several (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)

Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention? —Sybrand Bonsma

(...) I think this is a good idea. If such database is hosted on Lugnet, or a clear link to another place everybody can use the same names when they want to auction/buy/sell/trade pieces. If there are pictures shown of the pieces it would even be (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)

Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention? —John VanZwieten

Sybrand Bonsma <bonsma@phys.chem.ethz.ch> wrote in message news:FEG10M.DFB@lugnet.com... (...) clear (...) maybe (...) LDraw, (...) should (...) The problem is that there are different needs for different applications using piece names. LDraw piece (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)

Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention? —Frank Filz

(...) My feeling is that it would be good to have a standard set of names for auctions and inventories. It would be nice if LDraw could use these names also, but sounds like there is good reason for it to use a different set of names. Two sets of (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)

Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention? —Steve Bliss

(...) Are you having problems with the pages I put up at (URL)? Do you have any suggestions on ways the pages could be restructured to be smaller, but still usable as a tool to locate a specific part by looking at images of a bunch of parts? Some (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general)

Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention? —Frank Filz

(...) Actually it was Lutz Uhlmann's Part Reference (at (URL) Frank Filz ---...--- Work: mailto:ffilz@us.ibm.com Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com (25 years ago, 6-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general)

Parts Database (Was: Idea: ... Lego piece naming convention?) —Tore Eriksson

So far, I've only used LDraw's partlist and Lutz's, but I must say Steve's looks very promising. When it comes to Lego databases, there is an infinite amount of data we all wish to enter or seek on. Here's my two ideas to make Mission Impossible a (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jul-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.dev)

Re: Parts Database (Was: Idea: ... Lego piece naming convention?) —Martin Legault

(...) Hi all A standard naming convention is defenetively a must, weither Ldraw or Aucxilla or what ever it is, my self, I build a db for part inventory giving my own Part Number, Description and it is confusing with all the part auction around. In (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jul-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.dev)

Re: Parts Database (Was: Idea: ... Lego piece naming convention?) —Tim Courtney

(...) EXCELLENT IDEA, Tore! Having that searchable would help a lot. Though it seems an odd characteristic to include, and no one would permanently categorize a piece by number of studs ('cept bricks, plates, and tiles), it is very helpful in (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jul-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.dev)

Re: Parts Database (Was: Idea: ... Lego piece naming convention?) —Anders Isaksson

Tim Courtney skrev i meddelandet <4.2.0.58.1999070617...mm.com>... (...) Don't forget LDLIST, (URL) can search the LDRAW parts on any text in the description, CATEGORY and KEYWORDS, and show a picture of the parts found. (And I can modify it if (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jul-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.dev)

Re: Parts Database (Was: Idea: ... Lego piece naming convention?) —Steve Bliss

(...) Definitely don't forget LDList! It's a great tool for finding parts. :) Steve (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.dev)

Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention? —Robert Munafo

(...) It would be bad to put each image on a seperate web page. Right now I depend on printed parts catalogs, and having all the images on one page allows me to print them out quickly. If the parts were each on their own page it would make the site (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general)

Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention? —Todd Lehman

(...) Correction: it would be bad to put each image *only* on a separate web page. Right? It really needs both (or multiple) types of displays. Here are a couple of crude, semi-working examples... * One piece: (URL) A bunch of pieces in a numeric (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general)

Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention? —Frank Filz

Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) problem... in the above database, part 3002 is a 2x3 brick, part 3002PEYE is a 2x2 brick with printing of an eye). Frank (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general)

Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention? —Terry Keller

(...) Speaking of which, that 3002peye is one of those early mistakes that needs to be fixed. -- Terry K -- (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general)

Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention? —Chris Dee

(...) Would the plan be to include images for each part in each known colour? For the decorated parts, at least, I would prefer that the image uses a real life background colour rather than the default grey. As a reference for parts sales, etc it (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general)

Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention? —Tore Eriksson

(...) Why not add some new meta-commands? Either: 0 DEAFULTS COLOUR=15 ZOOM=150 (or 1.5) Or: 0 DEFAULT COLOUR 15 0 DEFAULT ZOOM 1.5 ... In fact, parts of the database could be hosted in the parts' .DAT files (to be continued in my posting subjected (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.dev)

Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention? —Frank Filz

(...) One neat thing that can be done if the pictures are served up by a cgi script is to store only a single image, but go in and modify the color before shipping it out. Of course you would need a standard set of color names, and a syntax for (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general)

Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention? —Steve Bliss

(...) I hope not. That would limit the site to serving up images in predefined colors. Two bad results: the list of predefined colors could become outdated, and some people might have a reason for making up their own color values for parts. I'd (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general)

Secret LUGNET areas, ldraw image databases, (was piece naming conventions) —Robert Munafo

Gee, thanks Todd -- I didn't even know about (URL) there is no link to it from the LUGNET home page! How many other secret LUGNET pages are there? Concerning the parts image database it looks like we agree, and a good start would be to combine the (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general)

Re: Secret LUGNET areas, ldraw image databases, (was piece naming conventions) —Todd Lehman

(...) That's actually an obsolete URL, back from when some various options were being looked at for how to partition the .cad.dat ng hierarchy. Some of the data is left behind there, so the new code formats it the new way. I'll go wipe that (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general)

Re: Secret LUGNET areas, ldraw image databases, (was piece naming conventions) —Jeremy H. Sproat

(...) You might also note that, from the main page, finding these two is something of a challenge: (URL) - jsproat (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general)

Re: Secret LUGNET areas, ldraw image databases, (was piece naming conventions) —Todd Lehman

(...) If those pages were too easy to find, it would intimidate people. No one wants to get their feet wet at a site when they think they have to register first to do anything. Note that there are so many sites out there that make you actually (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention? —Steve Bliss

(...) OK. I agree with you. The idea behind my site was to help people who are trying to locate hard-to-describe pieces, and need to visually browse through the catalog. (...) Again, I agree. I was just brainstorming ideas on how to reduce the (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general)

Re: Parts Database (Was: Idea: ... Lego piece naming convention?) —Tore Eriksson

Ah, yet another promising database variant! This is great, and fast! I only see one problem with it is it only includes official LDraw elements. Isn't there any way we could make .DAT files for not yet rendered parts, too? Just for database (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

Re: Parts Database (Was: Idea: ... Lego piece naming convention?) —Steve Bliss

(...) Creating shell .DAT files is a simple way to record information for parts which haven't been created for LDraw. I wouldn't include these shell files in the L-CAD parts updates, but they would be useful for building a parts-base. (...) That (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

Re: Parts Database (Was: Idea: ... Lego piece naming convention?) —Steve Bliss

(...) How about a 0 IMAGE meta-command, for those parts which are not-yet coded? That way, we could supply a URL for all parts, and the image could come from any source. Of course, it might make more sense to have that particular item as a column in (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention? —Sybrand Bonsma

(...) To start with the second point you mention: I don't think anyone should be obliged to used the `standard' nomenclature. As you say, for different applications the best name to use can vary for a piece. Even, if one wants to call a 1x1 brick a (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)

Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention? —Todd Lehman

(...) Sybrand, Since you're looking at an incredibly huge undertaking, be sure to seek out and make the most of every last bit of info you can find on the net about anything related to this. (But don't give up! :-) Here are some related things which (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)

Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention? —Martin Legault

In lugnet.admin.database, Todd Lehman writes: <snip> (...) hey, how come these thing were keep in the dark? thing like that should have been open to public long ago. Martin (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)

Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention? —Todd Lehman

(...) They weren't. (...) They were discussed openly -- several times. Probably the reason they were easy to miss was because they were discussed in RTL, where things get lost easily and it's harder to go dig stuff up later. --Todd (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)

Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention? —Robert Munafo

Doesn't seem like they were hidden to me. Just go to "www.lugnet.com", then click on the "Set Inventory Repository" link under "Links & Resources" at the left side of the page, and then select the "800 Town, Train, and other sets inventoried by Tim (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)

Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention? —Gary R. Istok

(...) For a lot of basic bricks, plates, tiles, etc, we seem to do OK. But other areas we seem to have trouble with the piece names. One area in particular that I've seen some problems are sloped brick peaks or apex bricks. Let's start there. Do we (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)

Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention? —Frank Filz

(...) areas (...) I've (...) Do (...) which I (...) what (...) among (...) lot of (...) Another one which would be good to have a concise name for are the various "connector" pieces, especially for the 1x1 plate with side clip. I could see the one (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)

Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention? —John Cromer

I think this is a terrific idea. I like the idea of a separate newsgroup for discussions and voting. If a new group is not possible, then we should agree on a group where we can all get together and talk about naming. I also like the idea of voting (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jul-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention? —Todd Lehman

(...) As they say in Canada, Minnesota, and Maine, "O-ya, it's been parta da plan since day one." :-) Lots of little prototypes and mock-ups and discussions here and there. Sill a ways off from fruition, though. But I think it's one of the very most (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)

Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention? —Todd Lehman

(...) Darnit, I can't spell today. :-) That should be "Bricktionary." --Todd (25 years ago, 6-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)

Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention? —Jeremy H. Sproat

(...) Just my .02 Sterling: This word might already be copyrighted and / or trademarked. How cheap is a copyright search? Also -- I kinda prefer the one without the "k". I guess it boosts our class if we're building with fancy Lego "bric"s rather (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)

Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention? —Todd Lehman

(...) Words can't be copyrighted (well, maybe supercalifrigilistic...alidocious can be :-) but trademark searches are free at the USPTO (but they're delayed by 2 months so that they can charge fees for up-to-date searches). USPTO search of their (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)

Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention? —Gary R. Istok

(...) I guess it looks fine with a "K"Gary Istok (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)

Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention? —Tom McDonald

(...) Personally I prefer Gary Istoc. ;-) [f-up set to lugnet.off-topic.fun] -Tom McD. when replying, spamcake roping has just been outlawed by the Montana Rodeo Commission. (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention? —Gary R. Istok

(...) And don't forget to include the folks in the Upper Penninsula of Michigan or Yoopers as they are called. "Dey talk like dat too". (...) I like it! Especially without a "K". John Matthews brought up an interesting point about not calling (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)

Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention? —Steve Bliss

[Newsgroups snipped to lugnet.general. This thread doesn't belong in lugnet.db.inv or lugnet.cad.*. I flipped a coin, and went with *.general instead of *.admin.database] On Tue, 6 Jul 1999 07:49:41 GMT, "Selçuk <teyyareci>" (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jul-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention? —Michael Hopkins

(...) I think this is very important. I was working several hours this weekend on my Ninja set part inventories for my Ninja pages on BayLUG. ((URL) was having difficulty describing the parts, and went out to AUCZILLA X to find the "official" names (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention? —Naji Norder

I was busy getting married the first week of July, and I missed this whole discussion. (Darn, this stuff interests me a lot!) anyway... (...) suggested (...) This is a great resource! If people are comfortable with "non-English" [1] names for (...) (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)

Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention? —John Matthews

I think that it would be unwise to use words such as vertical clip or gable in part nomenclatures. The gable end piece was designed to be used to complete the gable of a roof, yet it might be used for an entirely different purpose. A 1 x 1 with (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)

Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention? —Frank Filz

John Matthews wrote in message ... (...) different (...) I think parts descriptions have to assume a "top/up" of a part, otherwise, we'll have really long names" "5x5x2 rectangular piece with one stud centered on one 5x5 face with hollow on (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)

Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention? —Simon Robinson

(...) I'd agree. In principle, where bricks do have obvious uses you'd need to keep that use in the name for simplicity. After all, I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to find some exotic uses for wheels, but is anyone seriously going to suggest that (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)

Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention? —Frank Filz

Simon Robinson wrote in message ... (...) and (...) Hey, those aren't "hollow space wheels", they're "podracer jet engines"... Frank (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)

Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention? —Jeff Stembel

(...) I think that the word slope should be in there, along with the degrees of the slope. Those two slopes would then be "1x2 45 degree end cap slope" and "2x2 45 degree peak slope junction". Although, "half-pyramid" fits the "end cap" best, as (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)

Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention? —Frank Filz

(...) Slightly better might be: 1x2 45 degree slope, end cap 2x2 45 degree slope, peak junction The way I have put my inventories in is to have the size be in a separate cell from the rest of the description, as a result, an alpha sort would put (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)

Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention? —Jeff Stembel

(...) Those were just examples anyways. :) But I still Think "half-pyramid" is intuitive than "end cap". Jeff - "That is definitely *not* an ordinary spell!" (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)

Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention? —Frank Filz

(...) Ok, I could go with: 1x2 45 degree slope, half pyramid Here's an attempt at the rest of the more or less normal slope parts: 1x2 45 degree slope 2x2 45 degree slope 3x2 45 degree slope (3) ... 1x2 45 degree slope, peak 2x2 45 degree slope, (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)

The Bricktionary project (Was: Idea: How starting ... Lego piece naming convention?) —Sybrand Bonsma

Hello everybody, In an earlier post in this thread I stated that I would start to make a list containing the various names for each LEGO part. As many parts have different names in different auctions, programms and inventories it is sometimes hard (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)

Re: The Bricktionary project (Was: Idea: How starting ... Lego piece naming convention?) —John VanZwieten

(...) lists (...) lot (...) Two other resources come to mind: Lutz Uhlmann's Parts Reference at: (URL) reference of technic parts at: (URL) of these cover lots of parts not done in LDraw, and the Technica pages even have images of parts not LDrawn. (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)

Re: The Bricktionary project (Was: Idea: How starting ... Lego piece naming convention?) —Sybrand Bonsma

John Van Zwieten wrote (...) Both great pages, I still ahve to add them, which is some work with the Technica page because the names of the parts are only in the pictures. I have to check if the parts on Lutz Uhlmann's page, that are also LDrawn (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database)

Re: The Bricktionary project (Was: Idea: How starting ... Lego piece naming convention?) —Steve Bliss

[Followup-To set to lugnet.admin.database -- can we please corral this (important) discussion to one location? It's getting cross-posted to too many ng's] (...) I've got some LDraw-to-AucZILLA cross-reference information. Let me dig it out... (...) (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)

Re: The Bricktionary project (Was: Idea: How starting ... Lego piece naming convention?) —Sybrand Bonsma

(...) (I should have done that, discussion can be at one place) (...) That would be great (...) That is a good idea. The information I have till thus far still has included the name where it was used, so that might be possible. However, I still (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database)

Bricktionary —Mark Koeberl

(...) How about a "known alias" category as well? Maybe include a warning category for the the piece has been mistaken for? The effort doesn't have to be strictly technical. I've submitted a couple sets to the database, and I've been at a loss over (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database)

Re: Bricktionary —Steve Bliss

(...) Shows me what happens with stale followup-to's... (...) Interesting ideas. Could be useful, especially for parts with no simple description. (...) Steve (25 years ago, 1-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)

Re: The Bricktionary project (Was: Idea: How starting ... Lego piece naming convention?) —Todd Lehman

(...) Oops -- I think there has been a major misunderstanding; that's not what I meant at all. When I wrote: TSL> As they say in Canada, Minnesota, and Maine, "O-ya, it's been parta da TSL> plan since day one." :-) Lots of little prototypes and (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)

Newsgroup for this (was Re: The Bricktionary project) —Todd Lehman

This seems like it is reaching critical mass (a good thing) and perhaps at this point a dedicated newsgroup should be created for this (i.e., efforts to standardize parts nomenclature). How does lugnet.db.brictionary sound? I wouldn't quite put it (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Newsgroup for this (was Re: The Bricktionary project) —Steve Bliss

(...) Sounds good. Right place in the hierarchy. (...) And it's not actually part names, but a parts identification database, right? Having standard/prefered names is good, but it's the pictures (and maybe schematics) that actually identify the (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)

Re: Newsgroup for this (was Re: The Bricktionary project) —Jim Hughes

(...) Steve, I totally agree what is needed is a complete classification/taxonomy system so you can find a part. The naming component is useful and interesting but this project should be a parts database not just a name database. If the (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)

(canceled) —Steve Bliss

Re: Newsgroup for this (was Re: The Bricktionary project) —Steve Bliss

(...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)

Re: Newsgroup for this (was Re: The Bricktionary project) —Tore Eriksson

Hehe, I found you! 8-) /Tore (25 years ago, 9-Jul-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)

Re: Newsgroup for this (was Re: The Bricktionary project) —Steve Bliss

(...) I actually had something to say in reply to Jim's message, but I posted it incorrectly once (defaulted the Newsgroup field), so I canceled and reposted, but didn't paste in the earlier text. Oh, well. Steve (25 years ago, 9-Jul-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)

Re: Newsgroup for this (was Re: The Bricktionary project) —Adam Howard

What's this all about? You guys playing hide and seek in here? Adam Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:3786467b.729193...net.com... (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jul-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)

Re: Newsgroup for this (was Re: The Bricktionary project) —Todd Lehman

(...) Right. Identification and reference and browsing and all that. Massively cross-referenced within itself and to/from set inventories, MOC's, and the marketplace. So it's really a sub-database of the larger database. The "Brictionary" part is (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)

Picture references —Mark Koeberl

(...) Not to overwhelm kl.net, but if a piece can be indentified in an old manual that has been scanned maybe a DB field could mention that. Doesn't have to be a direct link, but it might be a good common reference point. Mark (25 years ago, 31-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)

Re: The Bricktionary project (Was: Idea: How starting ... Lego piece naming convention?) —Steve Bliss

(...) Great. I'd love to contribute to the Lugnet Bricktionary in any way possible. Of course, I'd love to contribute to just about any effort to establish a public db for part identification and reference. Steve (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.general)

Re: The Lepanadat project (Was: Idea: How starting ... Lego piece naming convention?) —Sybrand Bonsma

(...) Yes, there was a misunderstanding. I thought that you mentioned the name for this project, which you appearently did not. My goal has been changed slightly, from a name database to a searchable database with the different names that are used (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.db.brictionary)

Re: The Lepanadat project (Was: Idea: How starting ... Lego piece naming convention?) —Tom McDonald

In lugnet.db.brictionary, Sybrand Bonsma writes: <snip> (...) slightly, (...) are (...) How about a Lego piecesaurus or bricksaurus? Just a thought. Maybe not a good one either. -Tom McD. when replying, be sure to tune for the TV special on the (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jul-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)

Re: The Lepanadat project (Was: Idea: How starting ... Lego piece naming convention?) —John Neal

Tom? Tom? Oh *there* you are. Now come here this instant! I'm sorry guys. Sometimes Tom gets out of his yard (.pun) and wanders through the neighboring NGs-- he's harmless really. Come on, Tom: Now! Ever since that nasty business in .qotd a while (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jul-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)

Re: The Lepanadat project (Was: Idea: How starting ... Lego piece naming convention?) —Jeremy H. Sproat

(...) Is that your evil twin brother? :-, Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 10-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: The Lepanadat project (Was: Idea: How starting ... Lego piece naming convention?) —John Neal

(...) Well, I don't know what Tom looks like, but if he is devilishly handsome, yes;-) -John (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: The Lepanadat project (Was: Idea: How starting ... Lego piece naming convention?) —Tom McDonald

(...) Actually I look like a cross between Dan Akroyd and Peter Brady. So you could say that, yeah.. you could.. -Tom McD. when replying, Faraday's rule #23: spamcake brings trouble. (25 years ago, 11-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: The Lepanadat project (Was: Idea: How starting ... Lego piece naming convention?) —Tom McDonald

(...) business in (...) Dang. I stay away for one whole day and the brown bricks hit the fan! (...) all...please (...) Hey, IMO, why pick a strange acronym when a pun will do better? (...) Yeah, kinda like Capt. Kirk's evil twin: "Where's the (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jul-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)

Re: The Lepanadat project (Was: Idea: How starting ... Lego piece naming convention?) —Sybrand Bonsma

(...) For the moment I will keep the name Lepanadat, otherwise I have to change to change the name in some files again. Also I think there isn't that much people that visit the site at the moment, so the actual name still isn't important. As soon as (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)