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A few notes based on a browse through the (URL) Downloads> page: (URL) l2rib>, a utility that converts LDraw files to RenderMan format, builds and runs on Mac OS X (make -f Makefile.unix). I do not have a RenderMan compliant renderer (there are a (...) (17 years ago, 25-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: BrickFest 2001 Photos of Jessimans?
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(...) Well, there's a photo here: (URL) course, since you wrote that article, you probably already know about that one. Note that there's another version of the same article in the "new" part of the site, but it's not formatted nearly as nicely.) (...) (17 years ago, 22-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.people)
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| | BrickFest 2001 Photos of Jessimans?
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I'm trying to track down a few photos taken in 2001 of Don and Robyn Jessiman and some LDraw-folk while they were in DC for the fest. I've checked the obvious BrickShelf folders -- Bram, Lar, Steve Bliss, etc. -- to no avail. Does anyone either have (...) (17 years ago, 22-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.people)
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| | Submission for MOTM/SOTM/POTM closes in a week
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hi folks, we still seek some entries for the MOTM/SOTM/POTM contest: (URL) consider submitting your work. deadline is 27.07.2007. beside all this please don't forget about "RACHAL - The RAytraching CHALlange": (URL) the "Commemoration of the 10th (...) (17 years ago, 21-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: Copy of MacMegaPov 0.7
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I realized that in my previous message, I never actually mentioned that I built the executable that I link to. I built it from the MegaPOV 0.7 source using (mostly) the Unix settings from the regular POV source. I set it to output PNG files by (...) (17 years ago, 21-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Copy of MacMegaPov 0.7
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(...) You can find a command-line Intel Mac compile of MegaPOV 0.7 here: (URL) I tested it with the following command line: megapov +IBRICKS.pov I used BRICKS.pov from the above zip, and it generated the following two PNG files in under 2 seconds: (...) (17 years ago, 21-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Copy of MacMegaPov 0.7
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(...) Establishing a consistent way to create quality instructions from LDraw models on the Mac is of great interest to me, personally and on behalf of the general Mac LDraw community. If a detailed tutorial is not practical, I would still be (...) (17 years ago, 20-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Copy of MacMegaPov 0.7
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(...) I have a copy sitting here: (URL) I got it by e-mailing the maintainers of MacMegaPOV several years ago. In later correspondence, they also told me the edge-tracer in the newer version of MacMegaPOV had not been optimized by its author. The (...) (17 years ago, 20-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Brickshelf Backup Crawler for Mac
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(...) Of course, I just tried bsbackup.sh again - the current version that gets all files - and it took 32:05. There's a little quicktime movie in there that probably accounts for most of the difference as the MPD files are quite small. So the (...) (17 years ago, 18-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Brickshelf Backup Crawler for Mac
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(...) Boy, that is a lot more compact than mine! (...) It looks like it's only considering links to /cgi-bin/gallery.cgi. However, links to non-image files from the Brickshelf folder pages point directly to /gallery/username/foo/bar.dat. (Ah, I see (...) (17 years ago, 18-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Brickshelf Backup Crawler for Mac
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(...) OK, if you download and run the script now, it should back up all files (not just images). --Travis (17 years ago, 18-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Brickshelf Backup Crawler for Mac
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(...) I didn't have any problem compiling and installing wget (although I did have to change the default install path by hand from /usr/local to /opt/local so that it would be in my pre-existing path). However, I suspect that most Mac users would be (...) (17 years ago, 18-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Brickshelf Backup Crawler for Mac
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(...) There are many instructions how to install wget and even some installers. curl can't beat 'wget -m' afaik. (...) No official repository afaik. Last I heard was that we want to build it, but that requires a developer with the time to build it! (...) (17 years ago, 18-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Supportive Community
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Dear fellow LEGO fans and LDraw users, I was deeply impressed reading how many would have supported BrickShelf with fees to keep the site alive. Some expressed they weren't aware that they could become paying members to get rid off the ads, others (...) (17 years ago, 18-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !!
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| | Re: Brickshelf Backup Crawler for Mac
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(...) Well, I had the advantage of writing it from scratch specifically for this purpose. It's funny because I had been thinking about writing a Brickshelf upload utility (like (URL) Flickr Uploadr>) but circumstances resulted in a download utility (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Brickshelf Backup Crawler for Mac
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Thanks for that Jim. I got the script working for user backup, and Peter Bartfai (the author of the original script) also got one working for user backup (before seeing my email that I'd gotten it working). However, while I haven't looked at Peter's (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Brickshelf Backup Crawler for Mac
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As noted (URL) here>, there is a BSBackup utility for Windows that helps you batch download the contents of Brickshelf galleries. (This is of interest at the moment due to Brickshelf's imminent closure.) I've written a quick hack to accomplish the (...) (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Copy of MacMegaPov 0.7
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(...) Ok I finally got this to work. Now I just need to figure out why the renders are taking so long and find out how to make the lines look better. I think I'm headed in the right direction. You rock, thanks for the help! (17 years ago, 17-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: James Jessiman's Unofficial LEGO® Pages - The Original???
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(...) Wow, I had no idea these were still online! I was thinking about this the other day, wondering if someone had kept an archive. Yep, they're the originals. IIRC, in the early days of LDraw.org, there was an archive on the web site. I the site (...) (17 years ago, 14-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Workarounds for two crash bugs in Mac LDView 3.2 Beta 1
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So far, two bugs have been found in the Mac LDView 3.2 Beta 1 release that cause it to crash, and then subsequently crash every time it is launched. I'm posting a workaround for each of these problems here in the hopes that it will reduce people's (...) (17 years ago, 14-Jul-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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