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Re: LDraw parts images from TomS
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lugnet.cad
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Fri, 19 Feb 1999 14:48:48 GMT
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blisses@worldnet.att.net (Steve Bliss) writes:
> Oh, wait--the trick is to get it to generate gif images. Which I
> don't think it can do, since it's a free program.
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:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html
Anyway, I understand that the planned UNIX/Linux version of LDLITE will
output the image in PPM format, which can be converted to GIF by another
program, like, say "ppmtogif".
Fredrik
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad)
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