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Re: Text in walls
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lugnet.build.mosaic, lugnet.build
Date: 
Wed, 28 Apr 2004 07:57:58 GMT
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In lugnet.build.mosaic, Mark Bellis wrote:
> > > In lugnet.build.mosaic, Sonnich Jensen wrote:
> > > > I and still missing some good ideas for the letters: K X Z - it is the odd lines
> > > > which makes it hard to do.
> > > > My r's are ok, but I'd like to have a capital R there too - it is the same
> > > > problem, an odd line.
> > > > 
> > > > It anyone have any ideas, please let me know so I can add them.
> > ...
> > Still, I am looking for solutions for the 4 missing letters.
> > ...
> > Sonnich
> 
> There is a capital R and a small k in my hopper wagon:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/mbellis/Trains/Wagons/railtrack_hopper_kid_2004.jpg
> 
> I would do a Z like a 2 as people will still be able to read it.
> An smaller M would be like a W upside down with the two top corners filled in,
> with the advantage that it's only 5 vertical plates wide.  An N would be four
> pairs of vertical plates, with both, top, bottom, both in the letter colour for
> the four respective columns.
> A small x might be two columns of 5 horizontal plates with the middle and bottom
> ones in letter colour, with vertical plates in between, the bottom one in letter
> colour.  That would make it like two small cs back to back.
> 
> Mark Bellis

I have added the letters you mention, and the T in your car (slightly different
from mine)
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=703789

I played a little around with the X.
The M and N are great.
The K and Z, partly R too are hard to read, a colleaque here could not figure it
out.

PLMKWYT

I'd also like to have more non-English letters in this. So far I only have æ, õ
and å (the to last can also be used for ñ and other letters with a ring above).
Letters like ö ä and ü would be similar, but I have no idea how to create them.

BR
Sonnich
http://www.hot.ee/sonnich/lego/



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  Re: Text in walls
 
(...) As for reading, there should be no difficulty reading "Railtrack" on my hopper, so it's the context in the word that matters. If a person knows what a word should say, the brain fills in the rest. This was shown in scientific experiments that (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.mosaic, lugnet.build)

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  Re: Text in walls
 
(...) There is a capital R and a small k in my hopper wagon: (URL) would do a Z like a 2 as people will still be able to read it. An smaller M would be like a W upside down with the two top corners filled in, with the advantage that it's only 5 (...) (22 years ago, 26-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.mosaic, lugnet.build)

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