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Subject:	Re: New Ldraw parts authors tool: Projector
Newsgroups:	lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle
Date:	Wed, 7 May 2008 23:21:58 GMT
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In lugnet.announce, Philippe Hurbain wrote:

This new tool allows easy creation of non-flat patterned LDraw parts. Create a flat pattern and stamp it on a 3D former.

Program, documentation, source code are available here.

To show the usefulness of this tool, I created the four Viking shields:

available on LDraw Parts Tracker.

Enjoy!

Philo

Wow. Awesome. I’ve been meaning to write something like this for ages so I’m very happy. Would it work on minifig faces too?

Tim

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		Re: New Ldraw parts authors tool: Projector
(...) It should. One interesting aspect is that while photo/scan distorts the pattern, flattening the shape to put it in quad2dat does the same distortion so they compensate each other! Philo (17 years ago, 8-May-08, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle, FTX)

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