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| Truly impressive, John. One BIG suggestion. One thing that would keep load time down, would be to just do thumbnails of the older pictures, and have a page for old pictures. One thing that I don't like the looks of though, is that there is grass in (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) That's in the works, as well as the image maps. For you does the first picture download first, then subsequent? Or all at once? For me, anyway, I like the old pictures to be loading while I'm scrutinizing the newest one. (...) A known problem. (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) anyway, I (...) one. No, they don't all download at the same time, thankfully. I hate pages that do that. There is that long drawn out waiting process :) (...) manually (...) Yes, I figured as much. Makes it harder(more work) but hopefully it (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) How wide's river, and what's the vertical distance from the top of the riverbank to the water's surface? Steve (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| From Bram's pov file: #declare r_w=2800; // width of river heightfield #declare r_b=80; // height of river bank #declare r_d=240; // depth of river I'm not sure if 2800 is the width of the water or of the river+banks, but I imagine Bram could clue (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Yeouch! Are those LDU's? The river's over 4 baseplates wide! Must be the Mississippi. Maybe I'll have to rethink this as a suspension bridge. Good thing it's not downtown, or there wouldn't *be* a downtown. (...) What about r_d? Is 240 the (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Hmm. I may have to mess with that a bit. I want to go with something more like 30 studs across. Have you seen the new bridge they're building in London? It was in a recent edition of Popular Science. The deck of the bridge curves out over the (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Do you have the name of the bridge and some ather things so I can do a search on the web? PopSci.com mentions the article, but doesn't have it online. The article summary said it opened like an eye. Ciao! (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) How about 32 studs, bank-to-bank? (...) I had not seen that. Sounds awesome. Steve (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) the (...) more (...) I would do at least 60 studs across(I mean that's only two town blocks). And, John, would you seriously consider naming it the River Kwai, please. (...) recent (...) water, (...) bridge (...) degrees (...) I seem to (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) water, (...) bridge (...) The Baltic Millennium Bridge over the Tyne River b/w Gateshead and Newcastle in N.E. England. -John Van (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Thanks, John. Amazing looking bridge. Here is the URL from the architects themselves (puny picture, but what a concept!) (URL) Any given program, when running, is obsolete. The Doctor What: Second Baseman (URL) (finger docwhat@gerf.org for PGP (...) (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad)
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