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Re: Fun with hoses continued
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Mon, 1 Feb 1999 14:10:25 GMT
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On Sun, 31 Jan 1999 19:00:56 GMT, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman)
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> Ah yes, that too. And the two yellow tools that go into the clips on the
> very back. And I guess technically, the minifig. :)
Hmm. There were part-files for those tools then. There's still no BT1
minifig. We could do a plain black torso, or a BT2 minifig.
> When was LDraw first released? This must've been right around that time...
I don't remember. The filedates in the download archive go back to
mid-1996.
But James had LDraw-stuff around for some time before he released it as
a package. If I understand correctly, he started doing LDraw just so he
could make images for his parts-reference webpages.
> It's amazing how many elements James modeled all by himself.
It is amazing. A lot of them were rectangular bricks and plates, but a
lot of them weren't. And even the simple parts take some amount of time
to model. A couple hours per part is not an unreasonable estimate.
I've run through some in just a few minutes, but others have taken days.
Two quick stats: the final releases of LDraw parts brought the library
up to 693 parts. After applying all the L-CAD releases, there are 1346
files. A certain number of those 1346 are parts that were moved to a
new, more correct, number, but even so, the L-CAD part authors have
significantly increased the size of the LDraw parts library.
> > > 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?
> >
> > I'd be honored to, if no one else has been pre-honored.
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> Hasn't been worked on since James took a first shot at it in early December,
> 1995...
OK. I'll work on recreating the DAT, then.
> ... I think it was Jeff
> Thompson who first came up with a "liquids" method for distinguishing
> between the two transparent yellows:
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> - Beer yellow (regular traditional transparent yellow)
> - Alien vomit yellow (neon/chartreuse/antifreeze yellow-green)
You now, I like the terms BURP and CRAPP, but "Alien vomit yellow" is
one I'll pass on using myself.
Steve
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| (...) Try 9326p52.dat Minifig Torso New with BTI Pattern. Has to be one of the most usefull patterned parts of all. -John Van (25 years ago, 1-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Ah yes, that too. And the two yellow tools that go into the clips on the very back. And I guess technically, the minifig. :) When was LDraw first released? This must've been right around that time... It's amazing how many elements James (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)
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