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(...) As I see it if we keep the discussion here we will be talking to an increasingly smaller pool of old LDraw users and neglecting the newer ones. I'm very much in support of this move. Tim (14 years ago, 29-Oct-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Many people read lugnet regularly but few post. This is why the term "lurknet" was coined several year ago. Improving Lugnet's "ease of use" would increase posting activity here. An active team of site administrators and moderators (to post (...) (14 years ago, 29-Oct-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) 14, 39 and 137 have taken the trouble to join in those periods - so clearly people are able to negotiate the sign up procedure (and are motivated to do so). I think it's reasonable to assume that the are several more readers, but I could be (...) (14 years ago, 28-Oct-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) At the risk of seeming snarky, how many new members have joined LUGNET in the past month? Three months? Six months? (14 years ago, 28-Oct-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I'll second that! (14 years ago, 28-Oct-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) It would be great if fans decided to overhaul all of the lugnet forums to a new format. (The current forum should be saved somewhere as an archive of past fan activity.) The PHPbb forum format seems to be the most widely used type across the (...) (14 years ago, 28-Oct-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) NOT if it means as painfully slow as the rest of www.ldraw.org. /Tore (14 years ago, 28-Oct-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) If this means that will have a forum attached to www.ldraw.org MOVE, if it means that we move to www.xxxx.com/LdrawForum we'd better stay. The homepage at Lugnet.com features an article dated "5 June 2009" (by the way CAD still features the (...) (14 years ago, 28-Oct-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Though I don't yet agree, I have noticed a serious drop in new involvement. I also must admit my own lack of involvement. LUGNET was once the only place to discuss each LEGO topic, but has not done its part to keep up with modern technology and (...) (14 years ago, 27-Oct-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I can understand the problems with staying with Lugnet, but if we switch, then please pick some software which still allows both NNTP, SMTP and HTTP access. Play well, Jacob (14 years ago, 27-Oct-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Hi all, Well, as much as it pains me to say it, unless Lugnet changes the way it runs the forums (i.e. signup easy and intuitive, no authorization emails), I think we may need to change venues to avoid the potential alienation of new (...) (14 years ago, 27-Oct-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) It appears that nothing has happened since. How about setting up a wiki page and update the page listing when a hold is appropriate together. w. (14 years ago, 16-Oct-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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I have uploaded the slides I presented at BrickCon 2010. The slides go through a complex example which includes two different ways of creating 3D models, combining them together, and building the sculpture. (URL) resolution PDF and Powerpoint are (...) (14 years ago, 9-Oct-10, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.events.nwbrickcon)
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(...) On a side note, I have to say that this "DAVID laser scanner" sounds incredibly cool to me, so much so that I may need to look into acquiring it. Additionally, just five short years ago a 3-D scanner setup was apparently a near pipe-dream, (...) (14 years ago, 1-Oct-10, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Thanks! I had already discovered DAVID through your website. I got a line laser from dealextreme too, but I didn't have much luck using the video on a digital camera instead of a webcam. I'll try more later! Sculptris looks very cool. It looks (...) (14 years ago, 29-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(...) Excellent! To the palette of tools you mention on LSculpt webpage, I'd like to add (URL) DAVID laser scanner> to build your own meshes. The free version is perfectly usable (but you'll need Meshlab to assemble the scans in a single mesh). A (...) (14 years ago, 29-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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Hi Bram, Looks stunning. Downloading now! Now if I could find some more time for LEGO I could actually build the horse I sculpted with the earlier version of LSculpt. (URL) Jaco (14 years ago, 29-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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(URL) At Bricks by the Bay 2010 in Fremont, CA, I gave a (URL) presentation> on LSculpt, a program I wrote a few years ago to convert 3D models into Lego surfaces. After the presentation, (URL) Remi Gagne> offered to help me create a graphical (...) (14 years ago, 29-Sep-10, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, FTX) !
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(...) Hmmm, it seems to me that any algorithm that can find the missing Type 5 lines (in order to create the dummy entries) should be able to find *all* of the Type 5 lines. Some missing lines is just a special case of all missing. So just include (...) (14 years ago, 23-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Actually, no. That is indeed a long-term goal, but it is hampered by two things. First of all, it's a lot of work. Secondly, the current algorithm is actually useful to part authors, since it can visually highlight missing conditional lines. (...) (14 years ago, 23-Sep-10, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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