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Re: Fun with hoses continued
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Fri, 29 Jan 1999 14:30:01 GMT
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On Fri, 29 Jan 1999 07:51:22 GMT, legoverse@geocities.com (Terry K)
wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Jan 1999 01:48:04 GMT, "John VanZwieten" <john_vanzwieten@msn.com>
> wrote:
> > Terry, I haven't seen any hose ends from you.  Maybe you're waiting until I
> > publish the spreadsheet to do them yourself.  I'll probably continue testing
> > until the middle of next week, then if I continue to get good results I'll
> > publish the spreadsheet and instructions for use.  Then I'll work on one for
> > the Technic hoses and maybe even pneumatic tubing.  There's also someone
> > interested in creating a program to do hoses, so hopefully we can
> > collaborate and make it happen.
> 
> I thought I sent a reply through email, but that could have gotten messed up
> (geocities mail is screwed up)
> I don't have those original hose files I used.  But I will extract the ends
> from the model dat file and send them to you.
> 
> I'm the one that pointed Wolfie to you and Steve to see about working together.
> He seems to have some good skills in programming - hopefully you all can work
> wonders.  :-)
> 
> I am interested in seeing how your version, using the hose pieces, compares to
> what I did with the spheres.  Cause, in my opinion, those sphere hoses look
> awful damn good.  Plus, there are no problems with aligning individual
> segments.

But, how do the sphere-based hoses look rendered by LDraw and LDLite?

Steve



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  Re: Fun with hoses continued
 
(...) to (...) There's the rub. I think by making the hose segments more realistic, I can improve the results in POV-Ray without losing the nice look in LDraw. -John Van (28 years ago, 29-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)
  Re: Fun with hoses continued
 
(...) Not _great_ but not too bad, especially in ldlite: (URL) I am sure that John can tweak the parts to improve the looks. -- Terry K -- (28 years ago, 30-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)

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(...) I thought I sent a reply through email, but that could have gotten messed up (geocities mail is screwed up) I don't have those original hose files I used. But I will extract the ends from the model dat file and send them to you. I'm the one (...) (28 years ago, 29-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)

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