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Re: Fun with hoses continued
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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:
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> > > 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.
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> Cool-o! Not quite perfectly perfectly perfect yet, but getting very very
> close!!
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> Someday my Raptor can be modeled then? :)
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> James Jessiman made these images about 4 years ago:
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> http://www.fibblesnork.com/lego/raptor/
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> He worked from a couple scrawlings that I posted (the URLs of):
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> http://www.fibblesnork.com/lego/raptor/raptor-scrawl1.gif
> http://www.fibblesnork.com/lego/raptor/raptor-scrawl2.gif
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> Two things weren't available in LDraw at the time: the sloped brick with
> the Blacktron logo and the hoses.
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> 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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| (...) 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 (...) (25 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): (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)
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