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Subject: 
tool for patterned parts
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lugnet.cad
Date: 
Sat, 21 Oct 2006 22:25:24 GMT
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I thought about a tool to easily author patterned parts.

It should be used like quad2dat but with the following change:

If a part is scanned with a scanner and the part is not flat it should
be able to use the curvature of the part (that already has to exist as a
  LDraw part) to make a parallel projection onto that curvature.
(sorry for my bad english).

Is anybody able to make such a tool?

cu
MikeHeide



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: tool for patterned parts
 
(...) Hi Mike, Such a task would not be easy at all (although should be possible if you rely on human input to rub out mistakes). My susggestion would actually to have two programs... one to de-project and make a bitmap image and another to (...) (18 years ago, 22-Oct-06, to lugnet.cad)
  Re: tool for patterned parts
 
(...) Is it really worth the work? How many patterned parts have the pattern on a curved surface, except for the minfig heads? A couple of years ago I did start making a program that 'back-projected' a bitmap and let you draw the triangles and quads (...) (18 years ago, 22-Oct-06, to lugnet.cad)
  Re: tool for patterned parts
 
(...) I used to do minifig heads using quad2dat, but not in the standard way, since the minifig head template in quad2dat would stretch out the pattern in wierd ways. Instead, I would use the template for a flat part like the minifig torso, and then (...) (18 years ago, 23-Oct-06, to lugnet.cad)

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