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Re: Offer to Minifig collectors in Europe
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Mon, 11 Oct 2010 20:12:36 GMT
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In lugnet.build.minifigs, Christoph Bartneck wrote:
   I have a keen interest in developing a taxonomy of Lego Minifigures and within the framework of this project I am trying to take photos of all figures ever produced by Lego.

Out of curiosity, how are you defining a “minifigure”? There are a lot of things that are “sort-of” minifigs:



Personally, I drew a hard-and-fast line by saying that in order to be a minifig, it had to have a minifig torso (yes, thereby eliminating skeletons and LOM aliens and so forth as minifigs).

Also, are you looking to take into consideration other promotional minifigures?



DaveE



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  Re: Offer to Minifig collectors in Europe
 
(...) Dear Dave, For now I would like to keep it open. Meaning that I do not want to exclude any minifigure. I believe that these exotic examples are also a rather small proportion of all figures and hence it might not matter that much. Would you be (...) (14 years ago, 12-Oct-10, to lugnet.build.minifigs, FTX)

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  Offer to Minifig collectors in Europe
 
Hello, We are working on an Minifigure identification software here at the Eindhoven University of Technology. I have a keen interest in developing a taxonomy of Lego Minifigures and within the framework of this project I am trying to take photos of (...) (14 years ago, 11-Oct-10, to lugnet.build.minifigs)

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