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Re: Chrome Parts
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lugnet.cad
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Thu, 8 Aug 2002 22:36:57 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Steve Bliss writes:
> In lugnet.cad, Don Heyse writes:
> > In lugnet.cad, Steve Bliss writes:
> > > Because of a change to the way Partsref images are generated, the silver
> > > and gold images dropped in quality from "poor" to "useless". Until I
> > > can figure out a way to generate images that actually look right, and
> > > are the same size as the other colors, Partsref won't get new gold and
> > > silver images.
> >
> > How do you currently generate the images? Perhaps we could help.
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> I generate them with LDLite, scaled up 3x, with thick edges. Then I run
> them through ImageMagick to reduce by 3x (and convert to gif). Finally, I
> 'batch convert' them with Paint Shop Pro, because ImageMagick doesn't
> compress the gifs (I assume there's a patent/licensing issue between Unisys
> and ImageMagick).
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> It's the 3x reduction that blends the dithered pixels, resulting in smooth
> colors. The dithering was supposed to give some indication of the chrome-ness.
Why don't you try using ldglite for the chrome pieces (or all of them.)
It should be a drop in replacement for the ldlite command line, thick
edges and all, plus you could do antialiased thick lines with -q.
I'm pretty sure I added code to render gold and silver with a specular
highlight instead of the yucky dithering. You can also use the offscreen
rendering if you want to make it more of a batch operation.
Don
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| (...) That's a possibility. (...) Hmm... Gold: (2 URLs) gold looks interesting; not exactly "gold plated", but definitely distinctive. But the silver looks remarkably normal. Maybe you implemented shiny-silver as a different color code? Grepping the (...) (23 years ago, 9-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Chrome Parts [DAT]
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| (...) I generate them with LDLite, scaled up 3x, with thick edges. Then I run them through ImageMagick to reduce by 3x (and convert to gif). Finally, I 'batch convert' them with Paint Shop Pro, because ImageMagick doesn't compress the gifs (I assume (...) (23 years ago, 8-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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