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Re: Digging up an old thread (was: The geometry of minifigs)
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Sun, 28 Apr 2002 15:28:56 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Tony Hafner writes:
> In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss writes:
> > In lugnet.cad.dev, Tony Hafner writes:
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> > > Has there been any discussion regarding redoing the arm parts to more
> > > accurately model the real thing?
> >
> > I would *love* it if someone were to redo the arms and hand with higher
> > accuracy. :)
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> Note that it's probably not possible to make proper arms that are backwards
> compatible because of the hand placement on the ends. So we'd need to
> assign new id numbers to the arms... right? Either that or we break a few
> thousand files.
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> It may be possible to use the existing hands, though, or at least have a new
> hand part that is backwards compatible with the old hand. I haven't looked
> that closely at the hand itself- I don't know if the hand-to-wrist angle is
> accurate or if the rotation center makes sense, which are my primary concerns.
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> --
> Tony Hafner
> www.hafhead.com
I have started working on an improved arm part - and agree this will need to
use a new number to aboid backward compatibility issues. I'll try and post
work-in-progress here when I have something worthy of comment.
Chris
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