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Re: Comments wanted: Plans for easier parts authoring
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Mon, 7 Mar 2005 23:47:07 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Darrell Urbien wrote:

   I suppose all of that is neither here nor there when it comes to your work (what do you or other AFOL care about my lesson plans?), but.. you asked! :)

So nice to hear that, and I actually care quite a lot! I have used Lego quite a lot myself to teach computer graphics. Not CAD as such, but 3D modeling, animation and programming. Swedish M Sc students have often grown up with a large pile of Lego as their favourite toy, and some of them bring their old collection to the dorm room (especially after seeing that their professor does not consider himself too old to play with Lego).

I have seen quite a few animations and even a few interactive games with Lego themes over the years since I first taught my introductory computer graphics course in 1998. One of the latest ones, from last year, is here:

http://www.itn.liu.se/~stegu/lego/the-new-world/



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  LEGO in CG classes was: easier parts authoring
 
(...) could post some of the other things your class has created? One question: The credits list MLCAD and LDraw as applications used in the creation of the video - can you elaborate on this? Did they use LDraw measurements (or actual parts) in the (...) (19 years ago, 9-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.edu, FTX)

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  Re: Comments wanted: Plans for easier parts authoring
 
(...) Hi Stefan, While I think my opinion on this is well known, I'll answer your call for responses here.. I agree that AFOL don't "need" high-end tools for parts-authoring.. Any way to incorporate a graphical interface into the process would be a (...) (19 years ago, 6-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)

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