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(...) During implementation of Gyugyi's Direct Colors, I browsed his LDLite code: | if ((c >= 0x4000000) && (c <= 0x7ffffff)) | { | /Numbers of 0x4000000 to 0x7ffffff are hard coded color values. | zcp->r = 16 * ((c & 0x00000f00) >> 8); | zcp->g = (...) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Greetings I just added a new Feature Article to ldraw.org. Here Jonathan Knudsen, author of The Unofficial Guide to LEGO MINDSTORMS Robots, explains his techniques for designing building instructions using LDraw, MLCad, L3P, and POV-Ray. Check it (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: New use for part #2397 Horse Hitching
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I must say, TLC has surprised and impressed me with its creativity when it comes to different uses of a part I thought was single-purpose. /Tore (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Not to mention <set:6033>. This is pretty different from the other uses mentioned - and still, not a horse hitching. -Shiri (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) #2397 "Horse Hitching" has been used for (...) Also see (URL) for another model using the horse hitching differently. (...) its main purpose? (...) I don't think there is a *good* name or place for this unusual part, or its counterpart. It (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New use for part #2397 Horse Hithing
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(...) First, I agree that parts should be named after their most common use. Second, Isn't the technical name for this structure "Wagon Tongue"? Or am I thinking of something else? Jeff (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New use for part #2397 Horse Hithing
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I am fine with any name, but here is a suggestion: Name a part by what it looks like, instead of how it's used. "horse hitching" could be called "two beam offset connector" -Chuck (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New use for part #2397 Horse Hithing
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(...) It was also used in the Treasure Transport in the Ninja series. (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New use for part #2397 Horse Hithing
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(...) #2397 "Horse Hitching" has been used for (...) Seems just a bit silly to me... I mean, you name a part for the _most common_ use, right? Especially if it's ALMOST ALWAYS used for the same thing, except for once or twice. And it's known that (...) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: New use for part #2397 Horse Hithing
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(...) #2397 "Horse Hitching" has been used for (...) main purpose? (...) 6579 is essentially a rebuild of 6572 <set:6572> . Alan Random set:<set:3403> (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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