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(...) I have a few comments--based on my experience writing LDView--that I think could improve your load performance. First of all, I believe what you are saying above (and a little later in your post) is that you only cache complete bricks. If this (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Shortname and major focus of SteerCo (was Re: Steering Committee results
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(...) Yes it's deffinately there, I must have misread the page. I've tracked down the quote that was was looking for too :) "With LDraw-dot-org going more and more formal making sure that our hobby doesn't get ruled too much.", Willy Tschager. Peter (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Shortname and major focus of SteerCo (was Re: Steering Committee results
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(...) I removed the artilce form the front page as it is no longer needed. You can, however, access all the news articles via the News Archive link (you may have to click the See All link to get to the really old articles). -Orion (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Shortname and major focus of SteerCo (was Re: Steering Committee results
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Peter Howkins wrote: More on the rest of this later. (probably in a separate thread which focuses on the license issue) (...) I'm not sure what you mean. I just checked and the candidate summary article (290) is still (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Shortname and major focus of SteerCo (was Re: Steering Committee results
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(...) Glad to hear there was a fast decision :) and you right it's not a big deal, it's just I hate the idea that stuff like this would take up lots of time. (...) The only issue I can see with PD is that the part authors might object to someone (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: library license
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(...) I think Steve Bliss already has prepared something very similar to the zlib license. It should basically just be a matter of getting all the contributors to agree on it. Jacob (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Mac Brick CAD and the Imerial Star Destroyer
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(...) I'm aware of this and you'll find that when you save and re-open the file, MBC will have truncated these very small numbers to 0, this code should however one day be incorporated into the rotation routines. Andrew... (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Mac Brick CAD and the Imerial Star Destroyer
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(...) Yes, When loading I make a list of all the unique bricks in the model (colour and type) these are then cached as OpenGL lists of so when drawing, I then just call the various OpenGL lists. For the imperial star destroyer, this means even a (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) I'd also recommend Public Domain, or something really short and simple such as the zlib license. Do you think it does enough to encourage contributions back into the original library? The zlib/libpng License Copyright (c) <year> <copyright (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Shortname and major focus of SteerCo (was Re: Steering Committee results
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(...) - We chose SteerCo as the short form, but we didn't think it was such a huge topic that it warranted a special announcement, so we didn't make a special announcement about it. (...) - We are focused on licensing as the first major task after (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Steering Committee results
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(...) Whatever it's called could it be called something quickly, before you reinforce every bad opinion I have about decisions made by committee. You have more important things to sort out such as a parts library license. My opinion is they should (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Mac Brick CAD and the Imerial Star Destroyer
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Just out of curiosity, do you cache pieces once they have been loaded, so they only get loaded once? If not, you can speed things up rather enormously by doing so. --Travis Cobbs (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Mac Brick CAD and the Imerial Star Destroyer
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(...) Thanks for the MBC update! PowerBook G4, 400MHz, 512MB RAM, IBM TravelStar 40GN 40GB HD (4200 RPM), OS X 10.3.3 (build 7F44), 8MB Rage128. I don't have the .mpd extension mapped to MBC, so I dropped the Star Destroyer MPD on the MBC app. Timed (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Mac Brick CAD and the Imerial Star Destroyer
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Following the comments by James with Orion Pobursky's version of 10030 (Imperial Star Destroyer), I took a look at the file. In it's original form there was 3 problems: 1. MBC is case sensitive when referencing sub-models (don't know if this is good (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Steering Committee results
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(...) I'd rather not too. I do however recall back when the LSC was forming (or had formed?) Steve Bliss mentioned to me it was better to call it the 'Language Standards Committee' instead of 'LDraw.org Standards Committee.' IIRC, at the time I (...) (20 years ago, 15-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Me too. And Travis, thanks for taking the time to do some thinking about who ought to be nominated and getting all those nominations in early... (...) Good question. Here's my personal view (and only that, for now)... I like "SteerCo" for the (...) (20 years ago, 15-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Steering Committee results
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(...) I'd like to add my own congratulations to the new committee members. I do have one question, though (only half tongue-in-cheek). Are we going to stop calling the (pre-existing) LDraw Standards Committee the LSC in order to avoid confusion with (...) (20 years ago, 15-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | LDraw.org Ad-Hoc Organizing Committee - Wrap-Up and Thank You
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The LDraw.org Ad-Hoc Organizing Committee (4+1) would like to take the time to publicly wrap up its duties as the provisional authority for LDraw.org with a few words. First, a big thank-you to everyone who helped in the organizing process. We thank (...) (20 years ago, 14-May-04, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Steering Committee results
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All: The winners of the LDraw Steering Committee Election are (in alphabetical order by last name): Kevin L. Clague Tim Courtney* Chris Dee Larry Pieniazek Orion Pobursky A total of 86 votes were cast. I did not cast a vote in this election. (...) (20 years ago, 14-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, lugnet.org) !!
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| | Re: Question about Java3D
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(...) Orion, There is a Java3D developer installer for Mac OS X, so it isn't available to the public yet. My guess is that it will be in Mac OS X 10.4, which hasn't really been announced yet, other than the announcement that it will be demoed at the (...) (20 years ago, 13-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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