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Subject:	Re: Partsref is Moving to LUGNET
Newsgroups:	lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.cad.ray
Date:	Wed, 1 Dec 1999 23:06:43 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Kevin Loch writes: > Is there any desire to have povray rendered images for each part? IMHO, the best thing is having both (a) super-quick-loading GIFs and (b) high-quality POV JPEGs, and then letting the user decide which one to view. A while back, someone even suggested having spinning/rotating POV-rendered images for each part in MPEG, or DAT->VRML conversions... :) I'm not super-duper POV-fluent, but if anyone wants to make POV-rendered versions of the LDraw parts, I can stick 'em in the partsref as an alternate view, if that's OK with Steve. --Todd

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		Re: Partsref is Moving to LUGNET
One thing I noticed with the DAT explorer is that POV rendered images look _MUCH_ better with the lossless PNG format thatn with JPEG. Perhaps appropriate use of the JPEG smoothing function would help the the tests I did looked bad even at 100% (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.cad.ray)

		Re: Partsref is Moving to LUGNET
(...) That's fine with me. The only downside is applying updates. When new parts are released for LDraw, I don't update individual partsref images and pages, I just regenerate the whole shebang. So any manual edits would probably get overwritten. (...) (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.cad.ray)

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		Re: Partsref is Moving to LUGNET
(...) Cool! (...) Is there any desire to have povray rendered images for each part? I still think that would be cool, even though the ldraw versions are more useful for some things. It would also be nice to be able to either: 1. have all parts (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.brictionary)

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