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Re: Studs
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Mon, 29 Mar 1999 16:43:01 GMT
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Adviesbureau Noord/Zuidlijn wrote:
> 
> -----Original message-----
> From: Laurentino Martins <lau@mail.telepac.pt>
> To: lugnet.cad.dev@lugnet.com <lugnet.cad.dev@lugnet.com>
> Date: vrijdag 26 maart 1999 21:33
> Subject: Studs
> 
> > I've been 'testing' the CyberMaster version of the Electric Touch Sensor
> > in POV-Ray and noticed a few details:
> 
> > I don't know if the contacts of the studs where yellow in some time in
> > the past, but nowadays they are silver. Maybe they could should be
> > changed to color 383?
> 
> This is a case of old agreement within our group. At December 10th 1997
> Remco Braak wrote:
> 
> > I believe that all electric contacts are yellow in the "official" LEGO
> > instructions. I will check this for the pole reverser parts.
> 
> It turned out this was the case for all electric contact studs. We decided
> to remain compatible and make the contact surfaces on the studs yellow.


I guess I'm not a a standard user. :-)
To me the objective should be to accurately represent the real world,
not to copy the LEGO instructions.


> > I would even suggest the redrawing of the electric studs to include the
> > inside walls (what about redrawing all studs?). That way they could be
> > painted silver and more accurately portrait a true transparent electric
> > stud as in the case of the CyberMaster sensors. This is not only a
> > detail because the shinny silver metal inside the stud is very visible
> > to the eye in a real part.
> 
> For this single part, a new primitive might be a bit overdone.


My point of view also disagrees here.
Studs of real transparent parts are hollow, at least in the parts I have
at hand.


> maybe you can
> use the present electric stud and add the interior  with cylinder, disk,
> ring and/or rect references. Although I don't have the part, I could help
> you with it. If you want me to help, please send me an image of how the
> transparent stud should look like.


So are we copying the real world studs of are we sticking with copying
the LEGO paper instructions?
I mean, the paper instructions are not the best LEGO can do.
All the building instructions of CyberMaster and TurboCommand, among
others, are 3D rendered in the computer in a quality we don't even get
close!
LEGO is evolving, why don't we evolve also?


Laurentino Martins

[mailto:lau@mail.telepac.pt]
[http://www.terravista.pt/Enseada/2808/]



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-----Original message----- From: Laurentino Martins <lau@mail.telepac.pt> To: lugnet.cad.dev@lugnet.com <lugnet.cad.dev@lugnet.com> Date: vrijdag 26 maart 1999 21:33 Subject: Studs (...) It turned out this was the case for all electric contact (...) (28 years ago, 29-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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