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(...) er... ya. Didn't they actually DO green string already or am I misremembering? (...) That's pathetic. (19 years ago, 26-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Will it be a problem if LEGO ever do green string? ;) At this time, using the best available string element seems like the way to go. AFAIK, Larry's string is the best. Steve (19 years ago, 26-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Conditional lines on sloped wedge parts 43720 and 43721
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(...) Hey, thanks testing it out. You're right about the conditionals zig-zagging a bit. I still have the feeling that if the surface were pinned down to the concave green line those zig-zags would go away. But I couldn't decide whether to divvy it (...) (19 years ago, 26-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Umm... you REALLY should use a better string element than mine! It is really not very accurate as it doesn't model the three strands at all. It was just a quick hack, and it has fixed colors, if LEGO ever do red or white string it won't work. (...) (19 years ago, 26-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad)
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LSynth implement's Larry's string cross section (no use ducking Larry) to create string using the hose synthesis class (this means splined strings with nice smooth curves). I think that a string type that uses pulleys as constraints is important (...) (19 years ago, 26-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Conditional lines on sloped wedge parts 43720 and 43721 [DAT]
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(...) The following are the appropriate conditionals for Don's surface. Playing with it you can have angles where the conditionals seem to go too far, but it's certainly much better than the current ones. (Note that the last 4 conditionals are only (...) (19 years ago, 26-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Conditional lines on sloped wedge parts 43720 and 43721 [DAT]
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(...) Nice, I like the idea of the quadric primitive, but we want to add some curvature to the LDRAW version, right? I fiddled a bit with the part a few days ago, starting with the two triangles outlined by your primitive. I didn't exactly finish, (...) (19 years ago, 25-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Conditional lines on sloped wedge parts 43720 and 43721 [DAT]
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(...) Looks good. Should we create a new primitive with the next dimensions:? 2 24 0 0 1 0 1 1 2 24 1 0 -1 0 1 -1 2 24 0 0 1 1 0 -1 2 24 0 1 1 0 1 -1 and a POV-quadric version in the coming L3PPARTS. As the outer twisted surface of the parts with (...) (19 years ago, 25-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Part 41770 certified but missing sub-file??
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(...) I believe that is because s/41770s01.dat was certified and released in previous parts update (in this case 2004-04), and the parts tracker only displays dependencies that are currently on the tracker. This is not a problem, if the subpart has (...) (19 years ago, 25-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Part 41770 certified but missing sub-file??
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I recently downloaded the latest batch of parts from the LDraw Parts Tracker, and found three parts that were missing sub-files. Part 41769.dat & 41770.dat (Wing 2 x 4 Left/Right) both require sub-part s/41770s01.dat, but the sub-file isnt listed on (...) (19 years ago, 25-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Set 8652 Render
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(...) How did this post slip under my radar? Sorry for the delay in replying. Anyway, yes I will share the MPD. Give me a week (I promise). -Orion (19 years ago, 25-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Conditional lines on sloped wedge parts 43720 and 43721
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(...) I have made a 43720.inc for the test of the coming L3PPARTS. The mathematical description of the surface is: 80x + 40y + yz = 0 and I have used the POV primitive quadric: quadric { <0,0,0>, <0,0,1>, <80,40,0>, 0 clipped_by { box { <-20,0,-40>, (...) (19 years ago, 25-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | New Building Instructions from the latest LPub
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Hi all, I've been making good progress with LPub development. I've been putting it through its paces for testing purposes, and finally finished the LDraw file for my small pneumatic walker Pedmatic (due to a typo of mine, it is also sometimes (...) (19 years ago, 24-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.inst)
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Michael, I've been working on a new draft of LPub with lots of new features. In trying to increase the quality and reliability of LPub, I've been pushing a lot of models through LPub. I've really used the Arrow generator a lot. It is great! Thanks (...) (19 years ago, 24-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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(...) Looks like that might be the best way to go. I haven't looked at autotrace yet, how does it handle colour? Even if bricksaic converts it to the ldconfig colour pallette, I imagine the colours output by autotrace will still need to be converted (...) (19 years ago, 22-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Yeah, it sounds quite similar. Rosco's tx2dat program also uses the Shewchuk triangle library. Do ya think maybe it's about time to finish "publishing" your ldeco utility? I did a quick search and apparently you first promised to make it (...) (19 years ago, 22-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: Bricksaic and txt2dat?
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(...) This sounds similar to a past effort of mine called ldeco meant to help create decorated elements. It triangularized contours with colored seed points - see (URL) for a brief description (the page is very incomplete, I never got any further (...) (19 years ago, 22-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: Bricksaic and txt2dat?
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(...) Yeah, I was actually thinking the best thing would be to paste your ldraw triangle generator code right into the output code of autotrace. (URL) About a year ago> I hacked a cheesy ldr output into autotrace, but it only does edge lines. I (...) (19 years ago, 22-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: Bricksaic and txt2dat?
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(...) OK so a quick search reveals that (URL) autotrace> exports (URL) several different file formats>, none of which I know very much about. Does anyone else have any info? Note: txt2dat relies on the vector data being a series of closed contours. (...) (19 years ago, 22-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: Bricksaic and txt2dat?
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(...) Happy to investigate autotrace input, if someone can point me to a spec, or even better some code to parse it ;) Some test data would be useful too... ROSCO (19 years ago, 22-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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