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(...) Hmm. I interpret this like the lawyer's question, "Is that when you stopped beating your wife?" It's not really yes or no. The totally accurate answer is: there are no 2D objects in LDraw. The polygons we model are just the 2D surfaces of 3D (...) (23 years ago, 17-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw History - here's one for the old timers in the group....
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(...) I started working on it in June 96, at that time I had my own set of bricks all hardcoded into the program but a few months later (don't ask me when) I asked James if I could use his .DAT files in LeoCAD and converted them to my own format. (...) (23 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw History - here's one for the old timers in the group....
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"Bram Lambrecht" <bram@cwru.edu> wrote in message news:MABBIBJJFOJIOHD...wru.edu... (...) Heheh... (...) Added that you intro'ed the tutorial in Sept 98 (and I will link to it). Snipped cool history tidbits on LDraw/LEdit. (...) It would be neat if (...) (23 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | "All zeros" warning (Was: Parts Tracker Activity Page)
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WARNING "6260.dat" Line 7: Row 1 all zeros: & 1 16 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 4-4edge.dat Does this mean that we are forced to incorrectly turn 2D objects into quasi-3D to make them pass the tests? /Tore (23 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(XPOST lugnet.cad, FUT lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) One of the usability challenges I've been having with the new Parts Tracker is knowing what's been going on. There are about 360 active files now[1], and it's hard to see new files and reviews being (...) (23 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Number of parts?
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1589 not counting subparts and primitives. Leonardo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Schuler" <orrex@excite.com> To: <lugnet.cad.dev@lugnet.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 8:34 AM Subject: Number of parts? (...) or (...) (23 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Do we have an official tally of the number of official parts in the LCad library? I would include the multitude of official torsos and decorated elements, but I'm not as curious about the number of official primitives or subparts. Any info will help (...) (23 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDGLite bug reports
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(...) Well, one could think of the orthographic projection as a perspective projection seen from an infinite distance through a telephoto lense (at least that's the way I think of it). I'm not sure that helps me come up with unified coordinate (...) (23 years ago, 15-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Don: (...) The tiling works fine, but it is extremely slow compared to rendering the whole image in one piece. (...) Those notes are quite easy to understand once you find them. ----- (...) Considering that we are considering parallel projections, (...) (23 years ago, 15-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDGLite bug reports
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(...) Wow! Lots of bugs reports all at once. Where do I start? I don't know what's up with xvfb the aspect ratio problem. It seems odd since you can reshape an ldglite window and the aspect ratio is handled correctly. I guess I'll have to get xvfb (...) (23 years ago, 15-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDraw History - here's one for the old timers in the group....
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(...) [snip] (...) Yeah, I was in there - part 30055, Fence spindled 1 x 4 x 2 was my first. Followed by 2593, Wheel Hard-Plastic Medium (was that the first use of subpart files?). But I think Tore was the only author other than James to have a part (...) (23 years ago, 14-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | LDGLite bug report: Setting of z clipping plane without any effect
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I have played around with running LDGLite as a pure command line tool by redirecting its output to a virtual X server (Xvfb). This works fine once you figure out how to generate the appropriate orientation matrices to compensate for unusual aspect (...) (23 years ago, 14-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts Tracker: Alpha Version of Parts Release
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(...) Umm, I'd say yes. Especially in KEYWORDS entries. I can sort of imagine that we *might* need to put 'train car' in a part's title, but I can't think of a specific instance of that. Are you asking this because of something specific on the parts (...) (23 years ago, 14-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LDGLite bug report: Segmentation fault on Linux/Alpha
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I managed to compile LDGLite for Linux/Alpha, but every time I run the program it aborts with a segmentation fault just after it has opened its drawing window. I suspect - as I have written elsewhere - that this is due to a mismatch in the size of C (...) (23 years ago, 14-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Dan: (...) LDGLite still seg-faults on Linux/Alpha. I have been playing with LDGLite and Xvfb on a Linux/IA32 system this weekend. I suppose that the source of the segmentation fault is a mismatch in the size of C integers and pointers on the Alpha (...) (23 years ago, 14-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) well, we could try it with VNC - if you got LDGlite to work now? :) Dan (23 years ago, 14-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Making the screen even wider was not a practical solution. There is a screen width limit somewhere between 2048 and 4096 pixels. Now I simply made Xvfb work with a 2048 by 2048 pixel display: Xvfb :9 -screen 2048x2048x24 -ac This gives (...) (23 years ago, 14-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Using LDGLite with Xvfb
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I have experimented a bit with using Xvfb as X server for LDGLite. It seems to work, but there are some things to be aware of. I start Xvfb with the command: Xvfb :9 -screen 0 2048x1280x24 -ac "-ac" means that there is no access control. That's kind (...) (23 years ago, 14-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | world - tile ratios , environment
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Hi, I'm trying to create a town like Datsville, except that it's expandable. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on how to implement skysphere layers like clouds, terrain importation and textures, and overlaying and expansion of roads to (...) (23 years ago, 13-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts Tracker: Alpha Version of Parts Release
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It seems the word Car is a little source of potential misunderstandings. To me, it has always been equal to automobiles like Ford and Opel and others on rubber wheels. Until LDraw. Now, when I see the word car, an alarm clock rings and I'm not sure (...) (23 years ago, 12-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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