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Re: Text in walls
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lugnet.build.mosaic, lugnet.build
Date: 
Thu, 29 Apr 2004 14:09:02 GMT
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In lugnet.build.mosaic, Mark Bellis wrote:
> In lugnet.build.mosaic, Sonnich Jensen wrote:

{snip}

> > 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
> > 
> > BR
> > Sonnich
> > http://www.hot.ee/sonnich/lego/
> 
> For the M I meant that the middle top plate would be in background colour.
> 
> 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 words with letters in the wrong order were still read
> correctly, so a couple of imperfectly shaped letters would be no worse than
> reading handwriting!


Updated.

If anyone would add some more letters, especially other non-English letters, I'd
be happy.

BR
Sonnich



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  Re: Text in walls
 
(...) I'd leave the old 'M' in as an alternative. Also the 'W' done the same way, but upside down. A 'T' done this way only takes up three vertical plates, rather than six. Doing 4-stud-high lettering, I found that you only had to change the design (...) (22 years ago, 29-Apr-04, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.build.mosaic, lugnet.build, FTX)

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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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