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Re: Interesting Minutia in 7146 Instructions
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lugnet.cad
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Wed, 20 Dec 2000 22:23:14 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Steve Bliss writes:
> Well, interesting to me...
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> While building the TIE Fighter set, I noticed an obvious CAD-ism in the
> instructions. Looking at the inset in step 10 (on page 3), the outer edges
> of the 4x4 radar dish are obviously composed of lines, not a smooth curve.
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> My understanding (partly what I've heard, partly what I've guessed) has
> been that LEGO instructions are prepared using a 2D library of static part
> images. Maybe they've at least gotten to the point where they are
> generating new views of parts from their CAD database?
The error you noticed has also been seen last year in the initial release of
the soccor sets... And probably a few others.
LEGO has their own in-house 3D LEGO CAD program of sorts. It's pretty new.
(And that's all I know about it)
They used to design instructions by taking pictures of the sets at each point
of the process and having artists convert it to a drawing.
Computer graphics tend to get pixelated - the jaggies you see - when they're
blown up too large. (the 3-D to 2-D conversion)
It's just sloppy.
-Jon
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| (...) Don't get me started on the Soccer sets. Anytime somebody asks about modeling the minifig hair, we can just point them to the Soccer instructions for examples of bad hair pieces. ;) (...) It wasn't pixelation. It was curved edges which were (...) (24 years ago, 21-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| Well, interesting to me... While building the TIE Fighter set, I noticed an obvious CAD-ism in the instructions. Looking at the inset in step 10 (on page 3), the outer edges of the 4x4 radar dish are obviously composed of lines, not a smooth curve. (...) (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.cad)
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