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Re: Fun with hoses continued
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Date: 
Sun, 31 Jan 1999 02:19:37 GMT
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On Sat, 30 Jan 1999 08:41:04 GMT, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman) wrote:

> In article lugnet.cad, legoverse@geocities.com (Terry K) writes:
> > On Fri, 29 Jan 1999 14:30:01 GMT, blisses@worldnet.att.net (Steve Bliss) wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, 29 Jan 1999 07:51:22 GMT, legoverse@geocities.com (Terry K)
> > > wrote:
> > > > 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
> > 
> > Not _great_ but not too bad, especially in ldlite:
> > http://hugin.risoe.dk/JJ_Memorial/bezier.html
> > 
> > But I am sure that John can tweak the parts to improve the looks.
> 
> Cool-o!  Not quite perfectly perfectly perfect yet, but getting very very
> close!!
> 
> Someday my Raptor can be modeled then?  :)
> 
> James Jessiman made these images about 4 years ago:
> 
>   http://www.fibblesnork.com/lego/raptor/
> 
> He worked from a couple scrawlings that I posted (the URLs of):
> 
>   http://www.fibblesnork.com/lego/raptor/raptor-scrawl1.gif
>   http://www.fibblesnork.com/lego/raptor/raptor-scrawl2.gif
> 
> Two things weren't available in LDraw at the time:  the sloped brick with
> the Blacktron logo and the hoses.
> 
> BTW, looking at the date on the first scrawling, it seems that the model is
> coming up on its 10th anniversary in a little less than 3 months.  Any
> takers on finishing the work James started on it and also rendering it in
> POV?

Do you have the .dat file for it?

> p.s.  How do the hoses look in transparent beer yellow?  (See
> http://www.lugnet.com/fibblesnork/lego/guide/space/set/pic-6806-1.html
> http://www.lugnet.com/fibblesnork/lego/guide/space/set/pic-1968-1.html
> for proof that these existed...  The connector ends are traditional
> trans-beer-yellow and the hoses are murky translucent beer yellow --
> not totally transparent but definitely not opaque either...  :)

I have no idea.  Not even sure what color code would approximate "beer yellow"
And is said color before or after gastrointestinal processing?

-- Terry K --



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  Re: Fun with hoses continued
 
(...) Beer yellow is just another term for trans-yellow. It's pretty descriptive. Just use the regular clear yellow - color #46. It's the only trans-yellow game in town. Well, you could really get extreme, dig up an RGB value for the murky-beer (...) (28 years ago, 31-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)

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(...) Cool-o! Not quite perfectly perfectly perfect yet, but getting very very close!! Someday my Raptor can be modeled then? :) James Jessiman made these images about 4 years ago: (URL) worked from a couple scrawlings that I posted (the URLs of): (...) (28 years ago, 30-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)

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