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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:
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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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| (...) 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 (...) (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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