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| Thanks, Willy, for this very informative article... I discovered many things
(among them, Syncedit that looks VERY interesting - how did I miss its
announcement???).
In lugnet.cad, Willy Tschager wrote:
> When the Lego Universe Team has started to share rough data of 80 parts
> http://www.ldraw.org/Article489.html and soon after I've got feedback from part
> authors that because of their excellent quality those parts were heavyweights
> and would give us a hard time reducing the file size I was curious to what
> extend I could strip them down. After approx. 10 working hours my part was cut
> by 92%.
Here you had a favorable situation with mostly flat surfaces. Similarly I
reduced the size of 59349 by 96%... It is much more difficult for parts such as
47844 (http://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.cgi?f=parts/47844.dat) with high
resolution curved surface.
> We know that the source for the L(EGO)Draw parts are the original shapes,
> created for the molding machines in short they are the REFERENCE.
Are they really? Case in point, 55615 part. Check this image, showing rendering
of LEGO Universe Project file and a photo of the real part
(http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Philo/Misc/55615.jpg). See the differences in
center pinhole collars and orientation of pins...
> Thx to Philo and Mike the part needs only a review by the
> PT-Admins to be shipped.
You're welcome ;o)
Philo
| | | | | | | | | | | | | In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Philippe Hurbain wrote:
> > We know that the source for the L(EGO)Draw parts are the original shapes,
> > created for the molding machines in short they are the REFERENCE.
>
> Are they really? Case in point, 55615 part. Check this image, showing rendering
> of LEGO Universe Project file and a photo of the real part
> (http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Philo/Misc/55615.jpg). See the differences in
> center pinhole collars and orientation of pins...
hmm ... looks like we got the "ideal" version as it has been projected by the
part designers but the part was modified during the production.
fact is we stick to the actual part as it comes out of the box and we will have
to get rid off the collars and save even more triangles and quads. fact is also
we asked the LEGO Universe Team for DATA and got PARTS - more than we could ever
hope for and there is no way to blame them for their efforts!
w.
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