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(...) A long time ago I submited a patch to make ldlite save 256 color bitmaps, was it never applied ? (...) (URL) but most Linux distributions have it too. Leonardo (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) From what I've seen PNG gives BETTER compression than GIF for flat shaded ldlite type images, and as far as I can tell it only does 32bpp true color. I put a sample PNG on the ldglite web page if you want to try converting to various formats (...) (25 years ago, 29-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: A discovery? and part 3475
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John VanZwieten <john_vanzwieten@email.msn.com> wrote in message news:Fs5MrI.325@lugnet.com... (...) can (...) show (...) Never mind--you answered in another post. -John Van (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: A discovery? and part 3475
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John Jensen <skurt@vip.cybercity.dk> wrote in message news:18a2esk6si8dbum...4ax.com... (...) Why not just use the ring and cone primitives? Used in combinations, you can create just about any size ring or cone from these primitives, and they show (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: A discovery? and part 3475
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(...) [snipped description and part-file] Yep, this is how I usually build curved stuff - use primitives to get the correct points, inline them and move the points around as necessary. In this particular case (a full circular ring), a way to avoid (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: A discovery? and part 3475
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(...) I've done a similar thing myself a few times to generate a cone (and similar things), and I've been thinking about making a function in LDraw-mode to make the process easier. But I failed to see how to formalize the procedure, so I suspended (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L3PLiTE?
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(...) Basically it checks if a stud primitive is close to a "inverted stud" (the cylinders under a plate for example) or to some predefined points added by me and remove them. The original idea was to make the bricks really connect when they get (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: A discovery? and part 3475
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Perhaps that'll teach me to take a better look at the numbers... Regards John (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: looking for 3425
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(...) Uhm well, I got myself too, on closer inspection the number was 3475, which I now see was allready made:) Well perhaps my report on it will cause Fredrik to make a few improvements on ldraw-mode, that way it hasn't been all in vain:) Regards (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | A discovery? and part 3475 [DAT]
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I just threw this together, and while doing it I came up with a quite easy way to create discs with holes, and cones. Consider two edge.dat's same orientation, same position but with different diameters. If one where to fill out the space between (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: looking for 3425
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(...) You got me. What's a 3425? Steve (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Well, it's not *that* big'o'deal: GIF is restricted to 256 colors. If you convert down to 256 colors, will PNG give compression on par with GIF? If it doesn't, you can always look into BMP/RLE. FYI, here are some links into the MS (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Problem with 1-4con1.dat [DAT]
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The type 5 lines in 1-4con1.dat are coded color 16, rather than color 24 as they should be. (Unless I missed an update of this primitive.) 0 1/4 Cone Section 1:2 Radius 0 Name: 1-4con1.dat 0 Author: Karim Nassar 0 Official LCad update 99-05 -> 5 16 (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: looking for 3425
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(...) Apparantly. I cannot find the part number in any parts reference, so what i it? /Tore (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | looking for 3425
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Can it really be true that the 3425 hasn't been done? Regards John (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts Cataloging Program
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(...) This problem is why I chose PNG. It compresses flat shaded images quite well and still retains the true color pixels. My comprehensive testing of one sample image (the one on the LdGLite web page) put the PNG file at about half the size of the (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Is there some other way to compress JPG files, besides lowering the quality? Whenever I save a JPG file with 100% accuracy, the saved file is huge (ie, about the same size as a similar BMP file). (...) I've never heard of any kind of (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L3PLiTE?
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Leonardo Zide <leonardo@centroin.com.br> wrote in message news:38DFDCB4.594866....com.br... (...) So what test do you run to determine what studs get removed? -John Van (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I have done something like that for LeoCAD, it removes the studs above and below the bricks and plates for the rendering. I haven't added this option for the POV-Ray export but that's something that I can do if you want. Leonardo (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) JPG is NOT lossy, i.e. it's NOT required to be lossy, it can be defined to be 100% accurate ! (...) Actually I think that the best format is the GIF format, due to the type of compressing it uses and our specific renderer used for the (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Argh! Didn't think of that... :o/ /Tore (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev)
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Tore Eriksson <tore.eriksson@mbox3...wipnet.se> wrote in message news:38DE84F4.380C9D...pnet.se... (...) only those standard bricks, plates, and tiles (...) could be a way to free up some resources for (...) somehow, and I don't know exactly how (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L3PLiTE?
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(...) colour < 47) ), interior can be skipped. Of course you mean above the lower edge relative to the parts current orientation. That would require taking the transformation matrix into account. -Chuck (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L3PLiTE?
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(...) For basic bricks, slopes, plates and tiles, one could simply remove the studs and then make the simplified part as the bounding box of what remains. This could probably be automated. If one want more details, the studs could be added again (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L3PLiTE? [DAT]
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(...) You mean something like: 0 Brick 2 x 4 0 Name: 3001.dat 0 INTERIOR BEGIN 1 16 20 4 0 1 0 0 0 -5 0 0 0 1 stud4.dat 1 16 0 4 0 1 0 0 0 -5 0 0 0 1 stud4.dat 1 16 -20 4 0 1 0 0 0 -5 0 0 0 1 stud4.dat 1 16 0 24 0 36 0 0 0 -20 0 0 0 16 box5.dat 4 (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L3PLiTE?
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Tore Eriksson suggested... (...) IMHO this should not be limited to POV. If the simple parts were made in LDraw syntax, you could speed up Datsville in L3Lab (and others viewer) too! See also (URL) about finding those parts suitable for replacment, (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | L3PLiTE?
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How about making a library of very simplified standard pieces and replace only those standard bricks, plates, and tiles that are not clear and have no studs or bottom visible? I know there are some difficulties yet to be overcome, but I think this (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: part number confirmation
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(...) Ups, I thought I had the entire cad.dat.parts on my computer:) (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Its nearing that time when we all go to the polls and vote for our favorite Lego renderings. So mosey on down to ldraw.org and cast your vote - there's some high stakes this month! (URL) am going away for a week leaving tomorrow, but I'll try to get (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Parts Cataloging Program
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(...) Which pics? The ones in the ldraw\vec directory? Or part-images in general? Png is a good format, but still not very widespread. LDAO reads bmp 10x faster than anything else, and doesn't recognize png. I usually do gif for web stuff, and (...) (25 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: part number confirmation
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(...) I searched .cad.dat.parts for 30248. Jaco posted a partial file about 4 weeks ago. See (URL) Steve (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hi there I have here on my desk a part from the "rapid rider" of the rock raider series (can't remember the set number) it is also used as landing gear in various small helicopters, and have the shape of an "H" only with double connecting "bars". It (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Part on hold
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I have been working on the large pneumatics cylinder, but it has been boring me for a while, and I don't need it right now, so I'll put it on the shelf for a while. If anyone wants to continue, I'll gladly hand over the little I have on it. (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss writes: <SNIP> (...) I've been meaning to ask about image file formats for a while now. What are the preferred file formats for these pics? Right now I have ldglite dumping png files since they're true color, fairly (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I got around this problem by converting all the images from ldraw\vec to gifs in ldraw\lcat\images. Steve (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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[moved to lugnet.cad.dev] (...) use, I think. When I tried to run lcat, the continual re-launching of LDLite hosed my system. I'm running Win98.2, with a 1600x1200 display. I got through 977 parts beore total lockup, but my free system/user (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: META commands ??? (was "Re: new part - 71014 Castle Greatsword")
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss writes: <SNIP> (...) <SNIP> (...) MLCad documentation about meta-commands is available in the MLCad help files, included in the program package itself. Michael (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: More MPD
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I think this goes back to the discussion (from last week, I think) about the MPD format, and if it does everything needed, and if there should be changes to it, or a new file format. To handle nested files, and sub-mpd files, I'd go for a new (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: META commands ??? (was "Re: new part - 71014 Castle Greatsword")
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(...) CMDLINE is intended to document 'suggested' viewing defaults for a file. So if you make a model that should be viewed from the bottom, at 50% scale, with blue as the main color, you could add those settings to a CMDLINE statement. Right now, (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: More MPD [DAT]
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Lars: (...) Public. - Mostly due to the need to be able to create a set of LDraw readable files. (...) Since the construction of the MPD files is based on a collection of DAT files, there can only be one "roof.dat" file, ... unless you keep the DAT (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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