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Re: on Collision, stop Movement
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Wed, 18 Aug 2004 00:03:56 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Travis Cobbs wrote:
> In lugnet.cad, David Laswell wrote:
> > Oh, wow, you guys must be gluttons for pain. There are probably at least a few
> > hundred different means of connecting various parts together, and many of them
> > are not the sort of thing that you'd just look at and think, "Yes, these two
> > parts are intended to connect together like so." Some of them might be
> > accidental (the TECHNIC ball joint, for instance, not only connects to any
> > TECHNIC socket joint, but you can also loosely pinch the round sides between two
> > TECHNIC pin holes that are spaced one full stud-width apart), and others are
> > cleverly designed to click together in ways that might never have been used in
> > official designs (the interior walls of most standard-height bricks, as can be
> > seen on transparent 1x6 bricks, often have ridges built in that are very clearly
> > designed to grip the flanged tip of a TECHNIC pin just as the center flange
> > bumps against the bottom edge; whereas the tubes on a 2x or wider brick are
> > merely capable of accomodating a TECHNIC pin, but aren't able to grip it very
> > securely).
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> I personally have pretty much kept out of the LCD discussions, and to be honest,
> I'm pretty sure that all the work that has been done so far on the spec hasn't
> been done by programmers interested in actually implementing the functionality.
> There is at least one programmer who is working on "click"-ability in his app,
> though, and I think he's using ideas from the LCD discussions (he may even be
> using the spec). See here:
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> http://news.lugnet.com/cad/?n=11299
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> Having said that, I totally agree that a comprehensive LCD would be an enormous
> undertaking. That said, a much less comprehensive LCD would still be extremely
> useful. After all, a vast majority of LEGO modeling uses the standard
> connection mechanisms. Additionally, LCD updates could be done in a similar way
> to the current part updates, which would allow a large number of people to
> contribute, improving the database as time went on.
A connection database would be great for something like a simulator. I was at
BrickFest and someone asked me about this. It might be fun to work on a project
like that, and it could be handy to have the features within an editor.
Often I make one leg of a walking mechanism for the leg extended to the ground.
I then have to modify a copy of it to make the leg contracted. I'd love to just
be able to make the leg contract and give me the new geometry.
This sounds like a huge amount of work, but a lot of fun!
> --Travis Cobbs
Kevin
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| (...) And hey, now might be just the time to do it. You might win valuable prizes :-O! The L Prize site hasn't yet said what you need to do to win prizes there, but reading between the lines, it at least sounds like LCD-based projects would be high (...) (20 years ago, 18-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) I personally have pretty much kept out of the LCD discussions, and to be honest, I'm pretty sure that all the work that has been done so far on the spec hasn't been done by programmers interested in actually implementing the functionality. (...) (20 years ago, 16-Aug-04, to lugnet.cad)
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