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(...) We're working on it. Really. As you read this, linux gnomes are working with perl dwarves, creating a finely honed and highly polished automated parts release system. Or something like that. Seriously, there is a light at the end of the (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: (Updated) Minifig Arm Calibrations
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(...) Looking at part 979.DAT, Minifig (Complete Figure Shortcut), it appears the hands are turned at a 45-degree angle. Steve Christopher! have you backed up your data? (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Substitute Colors for Dithered Colors?
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Wow, Lars, that was a lot of code to support r = (r1+r2)/2. The obvious hypothesis would say that the eye performs spatial integration on the pixels, so therefore values are averaged. I guess I can try it on my eyes with L3Lab then. I looked in (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Rotate, pitch, yaw, or roll?
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Wow. LUGNET rocks. Actually, people like you, Garrett, make it rock. Can you also tell me the Perl package that implements pathname concatenate in a platform-independent way? (I'm a Perl Pounder too, by day.) I'm going to write the code to detect (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Rotate, pitch, yaw, or roll?
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(...) On the 'typical' aircraft: Pitch is the angle (from horizontal) along the of the centerline of the aircraft. Roll is the rotation around the centerline axis Yaw is the rotation of the centerline around the 'altitude' axis So your 'Rotate' (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Couldn't you just specify "rotate X axis" "rotate Y axis" rotate Z axis"? Something a'la most 3D apps, with an XYZ key visible in the model window would help with this (could be toggled on/off). Matt (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Rotate, pitch, yaw, or roll?
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What verbs are better for describing rotation about the standard axes? Rotate is usually understood as spinning about the vertical axis. There are aeronautical terms for the other two, pitch and yaw, and I can't remember which is which, so I'm using (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BrickDraw3D 0.2 released
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(...) Having never been able to use the DOS/Windows editors, do any of them do this? Whould it be a 'horrible' idea, to get confirmation of sorts via audible feedback? It might be a unique option at that. Just thinking out loud though... (...) Got (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BrickDraw3D 0.2 released
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I should have said, I know of several bugs in 0.2: On the Edit menu: Group has weird side effects. Ungroup does nothing. The rotate commands got all screwed up. Line colors are still absent in several places. Also new: click-drag always moves a (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: BrickDraw3D 0.2 released
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(...) Oh! Oh! Oh! I am SOOOOOO excited! This looks great Erik...you are definately on the right track. No bugs or crashes yet...every open feature seems to be working great. BTW, is this the same build you e-mailed me on the 30th? Matt (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | BrickDraw3D 0.2 released
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I went ahead and released a version. Piece dragging in 3D is more developed. There is a parts list window. All sorts of functions are here like cut, paste, color, rotate, background color. It has baseplates. Loading parts and models is faster. It is (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: there is a problem with the classic space landing pad baseplates
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(...) Sometime back I discussed this with Steve Bliss (in the context of authoring the two other varients of the landing pad baseplate) and offered to fix this probelm at the same time. I'll try and push it up the priority list. Chris Dee (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | there is an error in the 9v train motor
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Some of the type 2 lines incorctly use color #241 instead of color 24, resulting in a small amount of blue lines in the part (in ledit) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | there is a problem with the classic space landing pad baseplates [DAT]
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basicly, the problem is that the yellow lines on the t-junction landing pad plate dont match properly with the yellow lines on the circle landing pad plate. these 2 lines of ldraw dat file show a circle next to a t-junction. 1 7 -320 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Substitute Colors for Dithered Colors?
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Erik Olson wrote... (...) I use the average of the two colors' RGB. Try it out in L3Lab by toggling the "Dither or blend colord 256-511" button in the toolbar. Here is the code I use for color decoding: /* Return -1 on invalid LDraw color. rgb may (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | (Updated) Minifig Arm Calibrations
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Upon seeing the differences in the minifig arms (975.dat & 976.dat) and comparing the old files with their updates, it is obvious that changes have been made. However, for those of us who are more technical than their own good, please give us a (...) (23 years ago, 1-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Winner of the MOTM for July 2001
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Hi all, The winner this month, by a wide margin, is "The Beast" by Anthony J. Sava III. Deservedly so, I might add. Outstanding job of modelling, Anthony. See it at: (URL) remember, next month the voting will for both Model and Scene categories. See (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jun-01, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Substitute Colors for Dithered Colors?
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Hi, I'm wondering how to treat dithered colors (LDRAW 0x0100 to 0x01ff, see FAQ). Short of implementing a dithered texture--which would preserve that old-timey look--I'm seeking a conversion function. My first guess is that the perceptual equivalent (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Next parts update?
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When will the next parts update be ready? It's been over half a year and as a person who has authored a few parts I am anxious to know if they were acceptable or not. I don't know what the current policy regarding new parts is, but it seams that any (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Updated: More Lego wallpaper, please!
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One more update, a minor quickie one really, but I'll be out for a couple weeks. Maybe eventually I'll even get a real webpage up with this info! ;-) And if I missed yours and you want to add it to this list, then please let me know. Hey LDRAW.ORG (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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