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Re: x475.dat, "Minifig Hat Tri-Corner"
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Fri, 5 Jan 2001 22:49:31 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Steve Bliss writes:

Actually, is there any reason (other than guidelines developed
based on symmetry) to orient the hat so the feather hole is in front?

Yes.  I like to have my minifig pirates with their plumes
to their left (i.e., "sinister", to borrow a term from heraldry),
but someone else (who might be a member of the insidious right-handed
conspiracy ;-) might want his minifig pirates to wear their plumes
to their _right_ (i.e., "dexter").  By doing it the way I did,
the "default" is _no_ plume, and centered.

Franklin



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  Re: x475.dat, "Minifig Hat Tri-Corner"
 
(...) Addendum: This "default" is also the usual manner in which LegoCo illustrated their Pirates minifigs who wore this hat: no plume, and centered. In fact several were illustrated as wearing this hat with no plume and *reversed* (180 degrees). (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)

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  Re: x475.dat, "Minifig Hat Tri-Corner"
 
(...) Actually, is there any reason (other than guidelines developed based on symmetry) to orient the hat so the feather hole is in front? I'd say, rotate the part file 120 degrees, and just put in a comment about placement of the feather. Let the (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)

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