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| | | (...) Once it's tied into the part-search dictionary, it will really be cool. :) Once LDLite is ported to Unix, could images be generated on-the-fly? That would allow access to all LEGO-colors (background color would be nice, too). I wonder how hard (...) (26 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | Re: LDraw parts images from TomS —Fredrik Glöckner
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| | | | | (...) There are currently many free programs that generate GIF output, like Gimp. But this is potentially dangerous, since the GIF algorithm is patented. For more information, look at: (URL) I understand that the planned UNIX/Linux version of LDLITE (...) (26 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | Re: LDraw parts images from TomS —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | (...) Maybe LDLite is actually semi-free? If so, it could write .gif files. (...) Cool. Does PPM allow transparent sections? Steve (26 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | Re: LDraw parts images from TomS —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | [Steve] (...) Absolutely, yes, they could. [Steve] (...) [Fredrik] (...) [Steve] (...) My interpretation of the ppm file format (from the ppm manpage) is that it doesn't, but ppmtogif can be told which color to make transparent during the (...) (26 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | Re: LDraw parts images from TomS —Benoit Cerrina
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| | | | (...) what about the .png format, this does everything gif does, except better and is free (26 years ago, 20-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | Re: LDraw parts images from TomS —Steve Bliss
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| | | | (...) That might be an alternative, at least as a way to serve out images for further processing/translating to other formats. Unfortunately, png is not as universally accepted as gif (or jpg), so it's not as useful as an end-product. Steve (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad)
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