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Re: I've been published!
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Fri, 4 May 2001 02:33:32 GMT
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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
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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.
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> 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.
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> The book can be purchased for $21.95 at www.nostarch.com, and the images are • also online at www.nostarch.com/?robotics.
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> 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
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> Enjoy,
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> -John Van
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| "Tim Courtney" <tim@zacktron.com> wrote in message news:GCsHo9.IrF@lugnet.com... (...) Our legislative session doesn't finish 'till the end of May, and this month is "crunch time" for the redistricting project I'm working on. So I won't be doing (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.cad)
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.cad)
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