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I've been published!
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Thu, 3 May 2001 14:13:08 GMT
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Late last year, I was contacted by a publisher looking to create illustrations for Joe Nagata's Lego Minstorms Idea Book. A
couple hundred LCAD hours later, the book is now out.
Some of the LCAD highlights include:
Black & white instructions output from MLCAD
Full color model illustrations output from POVRay
Element snapshots using Fredrik's patented "anti-aliasing" technique with LDLite
Lots of bending/curving elements: electric wires, rubber bands, ribbed tubing, pneumatic tubing, fiber optic strands.
The book can be purchased for $21.95 at www.nostarch.com, and the images are also online at www.nostarch.com/?robotics.
Special thanks are due to:
Fredrick Glockner for his LDraw-Mode program for bending elements
Michael Lackman for MLCAD, in which all the instructions were put together
Mark Klein, who authored so many of the not-yet-official technic parts used in the book
Enjoy,
-John Van
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| COOL!! Congrats John! BTW - are you coming to the Legofest up in Milwaukee on May 26th? (loc.us.il has info) -Tim "John VanZwieten" <john_vanzwieten@email.msn.com> wrote in message news:GCrJEy.CEF@lugnet.com... (...) for Joe Nagata's Lego Minstorms (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.cad)
| | | Re: I've been published!
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| Wow. Congrats John. What is this "Fredrik's patented "anti-aliasing" technique" you are speaking of? The images on the site look very cool. (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.cad)
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