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Subject: 
Re: Should pattern be like we -think- they should be?
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Date: 
Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:05:00 GMT
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On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:06:31 GMT, you wrote:

When I made my first 3005-letters, I made them a compromise between accuracy
and
visibility. It was more important that the letters were readable in as small
scale as possible than that they were true to the originals. Do you find this
philosophy shocking? ;) That was in the days when LDraw was meant to produce
readable instructions. Today, I don't know what's become of LDraw. A playground
for perfectionists, where nothing or very little passes, maybe?

"A playground for perfectionists"

Excellent summary of what I am trying to say.  Most of us are not
perfectionists even if we would like to be, and we don't have time to
be perfectionists.  But we do want useable parts.

There is a step below perfection that is "good enough".  If L-Draw
continues to strive for perfection at the expense of all else, it will
be perfect at doing what it does, but what it does will be very little
- too little to be useful.

-Matt :)

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  Matt Chiles
  1006 Horseshoe Bend Rd
  Centerville, WA  98613 USA
Phone: 509-773-5724



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  Re: Should pattern be like we -think- they should be?
 
(...) You're right MAtt, "Only the best is good enough" but "la surqualité est de la non-qualité" (overquality is non-quality) and "le mieux est l'ennemi du bien" (better is enemy of good). Didier (17 years ago, 17-Jan-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)

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  Re: Should pattern be like we -think- they should be?
 
(...) Yeah, tell me about it! Me and a friend made a mock-up of the sign for the Datsville post office: (URL) low-res picture shows just a little of the flaw, but the letter 'S' is just so wrong. We decided to let it reach below the other three (...) (17 years ago, 16-Jan-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)

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