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| (...) Oooh! Now that's a sentence with wonderfully ominous potential. Bulwer-Lytton awards, anyone? Dave! (21 years ago, 10-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mosaic, FTX)
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| (...) Because nothing is truly without color; there are things darker than lego black. Also, using a slightly-less-than-t...ally-black shade allows outlines to be drawn with RGB(0,0,0) and still show up (at least, somewhat). And with shading (...) (21 years ago, 10-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mosaic, FTX)
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| (...) Indeed, the more colours you use, the smoother the image will be. But not everybody has that many colours at his disposal. (...) Isn't that inside information of TLG? Where did you find this information? I contacted TLG about it, but never got (...) (21 years ago, 10-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mosaic, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Is it efficient to replace plates w/bricks in a plates studs up mosaic?
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| Bob, One more suggestion: Because there is no "brickwall"-structure in your MLCad results, it might not be such a bad idea to alternately read lines from left to right and from right to left. In my program I also have something like this: For I = 0 (...) (21 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mosaic)
| | | | | Lifting a corner of the veil
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| Tips & tricks: 1) If you decide to convert an image without dithering (e.g. a cartoon character), you may have noticed that a significant part of the image turns (dark) grey (in case this colour is in your list of colours to be used), even if you (...) (21 years ago, 7-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mosaic, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Self-supporting, Sturdy, Textured, Flexible, malleable LEGO Mosaic
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| (...) Thanx, KDJ ___...___ LUGNETer #203 (21 years ago, 5-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mosaic)
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| Mike-- I like it alot. It's like a large-scale application of a technique that dates from the 70's: (URL) Take a peak at the lower left. --Muze (21 years ago, 5-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mosaic, FTX)
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| (...) I just uploaded a picture of part of the COLTC logo at (URL) can also view the LDR file at (URL) Gallagher (21 years ago, 5-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mosaic)
| | | | | Re: Is it efficient to replace plates w/bricks in a plates studs up mosaic?
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| (...) Yes it is ! If you build larger mosaics, you'll see that it gets much heavier if you only use plates. The more bricks you use, the lighter your finished mosaic will be. The best method?? In my mosaic I searched for large areas to use bricks (...) (21 years ago, 5-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mosaic)
| | | | | Re: Self-supporting, Sturdy, Textured, Flexible, malleable LEGO Mosaic
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| (...) Mike, could you post some pics showing the construction detail up close, please? From the full-view pics and your description I can't figure out how it's made. Thanx, KDJ ___...___ LUGNETer #203 (21 years ago, 5-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mosaic)
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| (...) (snip) (...) Very cool Mike! (hope you're bringing this to NMRA in July!) I've seen the 1x2's used a lot--I know Calum made a japanese fish windsock (I think) some time ago using 1x2's...he used colored bricks in the same manner to make a (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mosaic, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Is it efficient to replace plates w/bricks in a plates studs up mosaic?
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| (...) Yeah i was looking at Van Gogh's Cafe Terrace and Stary Night yesterday. i would love to do a mosaic, but never see my self with enough bricks to do one. bob (21 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mosaic, FTX)
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| (...) Mike - What a great idea! The accordion-style stacking of the bricks makes this a very unique design. How'd you think of that? Way cool. I gotta try that. You've turned the plane of view by 45 degrees, but the result is a clear image. Thanks, (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mosaic, FTX)
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| I do not know if anyone has used this type of mosaic yet. But I was looking for a way to make cheap and large mosaics. Using 1x1 plates have limited colors and can cost a bit. But 1x2 bricks are less than .01 each. Plus we can find these in all (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mosaic, FTX) !!
| | | | | Re: Is it efficient to replace plates w/bricks in a plates studs up mosaic?
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| (...) Bob, I just downloaded a copy of program this week and have played around with it over a few lunch hours. Good question. Can you implement all three choices, say as a toggle like you choose with the other features? I have yet to do a mosiac, (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mosaic, FTX)
| | | | | Is it efficient to replace plates w/bricks in a plates studs up mosaic?
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| Is it efficient to replace plates w/bricks in a plates studs up mosaic? I always thought it was and have been trying to think of a way to implement it in Bricksaic for about a year. I was trying to come up with a smart and efficient way of doing it. (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mosaic, FTX)
| | | | | Re: My Girl
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| In lugnet.build.mosaic, Corey Sanders wrote: <snip> (...) Hello, Corey- I have enjoyed checking out your BS folder with all of your mosaic creations-- they really look fabulous, as does the real life one of your daughter! (daughters are good (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mosaic, FTX)
| | | | | Re: Error Diffusion Dithering in LEGO (ministeck) mosaics
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| (...) Here are the colors I used: black, blue, brown, dark gray, dark orange, dark red, gray, green, lime, very light gray, light yellow, medium blue, orange, red, sand blue, sand green, tan, white, yellow, dark blue, pink, and medium orange. I (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mosaic)
| | | | | Re: Error Diffusion Dithering in LEGO (ministeck) mosaics
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| (...) Just for fun, I downloaded your image and tried to find the colours you used, and I came up with the following list: pink, tan, earth orange, orange, white, medium blue, light yellow, light grey, grey, dark grey, sand green, dark orange, (...) (21 years ago, 1-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mosaic)
| | | | | Re: Bricksaic version 0.1.0
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| (...) Xposted to cad.mlcad Perhaps Michael L. could speak up about whether MLCad reads that file, what the proper superset of colors ought to be and other topics. (21 years ago, 1-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mosaic, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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