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Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention?
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Tue, 6 Jul 1999 23:44:23 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.database, Sybrand Bonsma writes:
I can try to make a start, but as I am very busy, it will take some time
before I am finished. A set-up could look like this.
A devision like is used in Auczilla:
- bricks
- plates
- figures, animals and plants
- windows, doors and fence
etc,

For piece in the Lexikon the following information can be present:
LDraw piece number, LDraw description, Auczilla description, Set inventory
description, other descriptions, link to picture of piece.

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 may help as food for thought:

1.  This is an old mock-up page from May of '98 showing what the LUGNET
    elements registry (maybe it'll be called the Bricktionary :-) might
    look like:

       http://www.lugnet.com/database/elements/sample-2571.html

    It's woefully out-of-date with respect to the top bar and links,
    obviously, but that's OK because it's just a mock-up.  It gives a
    couple naming nomenclatures and both opaque and clear versions of
    an LDraw-rendered image of the element, and ties into parts inventories
    and the marketplace.

2.  This is a browseable and massively-hyperlinked collection of parts
    inventories contributed by Tim Vattima and converted to a web front-end:

       http://www.lugnet.com/inv/tv/

    The level of hyperlinked-ness is nice, but it also uses another third
    set of parts names.

3.  Here are some discussion threads from earlier this year and last fall
    about element stuff -- fuzzy categories, searching, misunderstandings,
    etc.:

       http://www.lugnet.com/admin/database/?n=128
       http://www.lugnet.com/market/auction/?n=1557
       http://www.lugnet.com/admin/database/?n=15

    I'm sure there's lots more if you dig deeper too.

4.  And finally, here's more background info on LUGNET data repository
    stuff:

       http://www.lugnet.com/admin/plan/
       http://www.lugnet.com/admin/plan/3.html
       http://www.lugnet.com/admin/plan/3a.html

--Todd



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  Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention?
 
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)

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  Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention?
 
(...) 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)

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