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Re: I've been published!
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Fri, 4 May 2001 06:52:10 GMT
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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.

John VanZwieten wrote:

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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(...) It's a poor mans's anti aliasing technique. You simply render the image with wide edge lines at 300% and then scale it down by a factor of three. The result has the effect of anti aliasing. Here's an example: (URL) has the option of rendering (...) (23 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.cad)

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  I've been published!
 
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 (...) (23 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.cad)

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