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Re: Should pattern be like we -think- they should be?
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lugnet.cad.dat.parts
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Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:53:01 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Matthew J. Chiles <mattchiles@gorge.net> wrote:
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> On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:06:31 GMT, you wrote:
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> > 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?
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> "A playground for perfectionists"
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> 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.
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> 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.
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
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