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At 06:50 PM 11/26/1999 , Todd Lehman wrote:
> OK, here's an analogy... Hopefully this will illustrate the purist's point
> of view and why it's not arbitrary...
>
> You go into a restaurant and order big fat juicy third-pound burger with all
> the fixings, a side of french fries, and a big tall chocolate frappe. The
> burger comes on a big white porcelain plate and sits atop two extremely
> large iceberg lettuce leaves. Beneath the top bun, your burger contains,
> among other things, tomatoes, onions, and shredded lettuce.
>
> Now you *could* eat the big leaves of lettuce, but it's the shredded lettuce
> inside your burger that's meant for eating; the big leaves on the plate are
> just there for decoration. You can ignore the big leaves, therefore, since
> they're not really intended to be part of the meal.
>
> Well, in LDraw/POV models, the non-LEGO elements and scenery are nothing
> more than harmless big leaves of lettuce. It doesn't really matter if
> they're there because they don't affect the meal -- only the presentation of
> it. Putting in clone bricks, however, is like messing with the burger
> itself. You take out a LEGO brick and put in a crummy clone brick and it's
> like taking out real burger and putting in tofu, or like taking out ice
> cream and putting in ice milk: it actually affects the meal itself, and you
> don't have the real thing anymore.
You're making me hungry, Todd. :)
Good analogy.
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