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Re: LDraw-Pattern-Creator (LPC)
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Tue, 7 Jun 2011 20:23:33 GMT
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> From: Reuben Pearse
> Date: Freitag, 3. Juni 2011 07:43
> To: Nils Schmidt
> Subject: Fwd: Re: FWD: LDraw-Pattern-Creator
> 
> Hi Nils,
> 
> I've posted some details about you LDraw-Pattern-Creator program here:
> http://www.pearse.co.uk/lego/links/ldrawpatterncreator/
> 
> ...and I've encouraged part authors to experiment with the program and >provide feedback.
> 
> I hope this is OK. Please let me know if you have other LPC information you >would like me to put on the website.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Reuben
> reuben@pearse.co.uk

Hi Reuben!

Thank you for hosting my program on your web space, for promoting my program to
other part authors and Thanks to J.C. Tchang for writing this great manual!

I am still working on the LPC.

Here is my TODO-List:
- To write a documentation or a manual
- To implement automatic primitive recognition and substitution (the program identifies capabilities of xxxdisc.dat and xxxndis.dat primitives and 48-primitive counterparts)
Status of implementation: Nearly finished, but it will take two weeks or more to
complete, because of the heavy mathematics in discrete geometry.

Example of this feature:

The method expects triangles like
3 16 0 0 0 0.6561 0 -0.7547 0.89499448 0 -0.44617786
3 16 0 0 0 0.89499448 0 -0.44617786 0.99757668 0 -0.06972006
3 16 0 0 0 0.99757668 0 -0.06972006 0.9483568 0 0.3173471
3 16 0 0 0 0.9483568 0 0.3173471 0.7547 0 0.6561
3 16 0 0 0 0.7547 0 0.6561 0.44617786 0 0.89499448
3 16 0 0 0 0.44617786 0 0.89499448 0.06972006 0 0.99757668
3 16 0 0 0 0.06972006 0 0.99757668 -0.3173471 0 0.9483568
3 4 2 0 2 0.7547 0 0.6561 0.44617786 0 0.89499448
3 16 0 0 0 -0.3173471 0 0.9483568 -0.6561 0 0.7547
3 16 0 0 0 -0.6561 0 0.7547 -0.89499448 0 0.44617786
3 16 0 0 0 -0.89499448 0 0.44617786 -0.99757668 0 0.06972006
3 16 0 0 0 -0.99757668 0 0.06972006 -0.9483568 0 -0.3173471
3 16 0 0 0 -0.9483568 0 -0.3173471 -0.7547 0 -0.6561
3 16 0 0 0 -0.7547 0 -0.6561 -0.44617786 0 -0.89499448
3 16 0 0 0 -0.44617786 0 -0.89499448 -0.06972006 0 -0.99757668
3 16 0 0 0 -0.06972006 0 -0.99757668 0.3173471 0 -0.9483568
3 16 0 0 0 0.3173471 0 -0.9483568 0.6561 0 -0.7547

and converts this input to only two lines
1 16 0 0 0 0.6561 0 0.7547 0 1 0 -0.7547 0 0.6561 4-4disc.dat
3 4 2 0 2 0.7547 0 0.6561 0.44617786 0 0.89499448
The algorithm is very complex to implement for ndis-primitives, but I will make
it. This feature is really nice to have.
- Auto-Rectifie the pattern while exporting the pattern as DAT (I have to ask Philo. He is the author of the program rectifier [http://www.philohome.com/isecalc/rectifier.htm] )
- Implement the CSG Add-function (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_solid_geometry)
- Minor improvements on DAT- in- and export
- General bugfixing, code- and GUI-cleanup.
- Performance improvements

Thanks for your support

Nils



> Can anyone assist with providing translations for English and other
> languages? If you are able to help with translating then I would suggest that
> you download the zip file here:
> http://www.pearse.co.uk/lego/downloads/Manuel-LPC-v1beta.zip
> 
> ...make amendments and then email me the updated zip file (email address on the
> website)
> 
> Bye for now
> 
> Reuben

I'll translate it into English and German.


Nils



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(...) J.C. Tchang has kindly put a manual together for the LDraw-Pattern-Creator. At the moment this is only available in French. I have added some links to the manual on the following page: (URL) can browse the manual online or you can download a (...) (15 years ago, 7-Jun-11, to lugnet.cad)

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