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Re: LCD - LEGO Connection Database - Proposal
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Mon, 28 Jan 2002 23:19:29 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> This is VERY significant work. Building this knowledge into modeling tools
> would be awesome. People in the past have hinted at ways of doing this and
> at the vast and powerful new ways of analysing things that would result.
Yup! :-)
> I personally am fascinated by all the different ways that things can
> interconnect and if this database were created, one could envision running
> automated searches of ways to interconnect that perhaps had not been
> actually thought of before (think of something like feeding the anagram
> server some useful or interesting letters and seeing what pops out). Talk
> about your boon to SNOT builders!
Never thought of it that way. In that case, it would go beyond the primary
goal of making parts connectable in the editing of a model file.
> Who do we send nits and corrections to... discuss here or direct to them?
For now, discuss here.
> (Their example "minifig waist" probably should be "minifig wrist" as it
> talks about the pin on a hand that fits into the lower end of an arm... that
> seems wrist-ish to me... further in their minifig on skis example I would
> argue that the hips to torso connection is not a normal stud-stud inlet as
> the stud has extra height, also that there)
You are right. I fixed the error.
> YES, I want to see this taken farther. Amazing work, a very well thought out
> starting point! Kudos to these authors, whoever they are (By: Láng Attila D.
> (LAD) and Kiss Attila Csongor (KACS))!!!
A couple of people from Hungary, they were both unknown to me until
yesterday when I got the email. Needless to say, I'm impressed with their
debut into the community :-) (Keep it up guys!!)
-Tim
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