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John Jensen <skurt@vip.cybercity.dk> wrote in message news:18a2esk6si8dbum...4ax.com... (...) Why not just use the ring and cone primitives? Used in combinations, you can create just about any size ring or cone from these primitives, and they show (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: A discovery? and part 3475
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(...) [snipped description and part-file] Yep, this is how I usually build curved stuff - use primitives to get the correct points, inline them and move the points around as necessary. In this particular case (a full circular ring), a way to avoid (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: A discovery? and part 3475
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(...) I've done a similar thing myself a few times to generate a cone (and similar things), and I've been thinking about making a function in LDraw-mode to make the process easier. But I failed to see how to formalize the procedure, so I suspended (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L3PLiTE?
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(...) Basically it checks if a stud primitive is close to a "inverted stud" (the cylinders under a plate for example) or to some predefined points added by me and remove them. The original idea was to make the bricks really connect when they get (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: A discovery? and part 3475
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Perhaps that'll teach me to take a better look at the numbers... Regards John (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: looking for 3425
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(...) Uhm well, I got myself too, on closer inspection the number was 3475, which I now see was allready made:) Well perhaps my report on it will cause Fredrik to make a few improvements on ldraw-mode, that way it hasn't been all in vain:) Regards (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | A discovery? and part 3475 [DAT]
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I just threw this together, and while doing it I came up with a quite easy way to create discs with holes, and cones. Consider two edge.dat's same orientation, same position but with different diameters. If one where to fill out the space between (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: looking for 3425
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(...) You got me. What's a 3425? Steve (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts Cataloging Program
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(...) Well, it's not *that* big'o'deal: GIF is restricted to 256 colors. If you convert down to 256 colors, will PNG give compression on par with GIF? If it doesn't, you can always look into BMP/RLE. FYI, here are some links into the MS (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Problem with 1-4con1.dat [DAT]
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The type 5 lines in 1-4con1.dat are coded color 16, rather than color 24 as they should be. (Unless I missed an update of this primitive.) 0 1/4 Cone Section 1:2 Radius 0 Name: 1-4con1.dat 0 Author: Karim Nassar 0 Official LCad update 99-05 -> 5 16 (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: looking for 3425
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(...) Apparantly. I cannot find the part number in any parts reference, so what i it? /Tore (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | looking for 3425
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Can it really be true that the 3425 hasn't been done? Regards John (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Parts Cataloging Program
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(...) This problem is why I chose PNG. It compresses flat shaded images quite well and still retains the true color pixels. My comprehensive testing of one sample image (the one on the LdGLite web page) put the PNG file at about half the size of the (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Is there some other way to compress JPG files, besides lowering the quality? Whenever I save a JPG file with 100% accuracy, the saved file is huge (ie, about the same size as a similar BMP file). (...) I've never heard of any kind of (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Leonardo Zide <leonardo@centroin.com.br> wrote in message news:38DFDCB4.594866....com.br... (...) So what test do you run to determine what studs get removed? -John Van (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I have done something like that for LeoCAD, it removes the studs above and below the bricks and plates for the rendering. I haven't added this option for the POV-Ray export but that's something that I can do if you want. Leonardo (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) JPG is NOT lossy, i.e. it's NOT required to be lossy, it can be defined to be 100% accurate ! (...) Actually I think that the best format is the GIF format, due to the type of compressing it uses and our specific renderer used for the (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Argh! Didn't think of that... :o/ /Tore (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev)
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Tore Eriksson <tore.eriksson@mbox3...wipnet.se> wrote in message news:38DE84F4.380C9D...pnet.se... (...) only those standard bricks, plates, and tiles (...) could be a way to free up some resources for (...) somehow, and I don't know exactly how (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: L3PLiTE?
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(...) colour < 47) ), interior can be skipped. Of course you mean above the lower edge relative to the parts current orientation. That would require taking the transformation matrix into account. -Chuck (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev)
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