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How is a renderer expected to handle dithered colors not mentioned explicitly in ldconfig.ldr ? The "LDraw File Format" specification says: "Also, colours 256 through 511 are dithered. So if you want to combine colours J and K, figure your colour (...) (20 years ago, 6-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Visio and Picture formats (was New Parts Drawings - Plates, Slope, Track Pieces)
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(...) Actually all the concern is now moot since the software patent for LZW compression (which the GIF format uses) expired in 2004. -Orion (20 years ago, 6-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Visio and Picture formats (was New Parts Drawings - Plates, Slope, Track Pieces)
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(...) Not sure if its the best, but certainly used a lot. It is lossless. (...) Well a lot of people do. But that changed a while back because CompuServe (who own the format) threatened to charge royalties for using it. I don't think anything came (...) (20 years ago, 6-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Visio and Picture formats (was New Parts Drawings - Plates, Slope, Track Pieces)
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(...) I only use bitmaps when they are smaller than the equivalent jpeg - ie they are monochrome ones. This was the case for the parts I've drawn so far. I've used jpegs for colour pictures up to now. I did a test with the 4x4 round plate drawing: (...) (20 years ago, 5-Feb-05, to lugnet.parts.custom, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: BFCFixer
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(...) Such components are handled correctly by BFCFixer as "detached" submodels, and are oriented consistently with the rest of the polygons in the file as long as each independant submodel is sufficiently enclosed that a correct winding can be (...) (20 years ago, 5-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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