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| (...) Just to create some facts & data to work from, I created zip files containing various parts of the whole LDraw family. Here's what I got: Original LDraw and all parts: 2.1MB +DOS tools: 2.3MB +Win32 tools: 4.8MB (not including L3PAO & its (...) (26 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Part Numbering Crisis in LDraw
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| (...) about (...) part (...) That still wouldn't make it possible in Ldraw to (I)nsert a new piece, change the (P)art number, then type the part number of the part which is in your hand, and have it inserted. Multi-part parts are a problem, of (...) (26 years ago, 1-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| dod anything ever come off about the possible creation of ldraw.org? is it work in progress or has the idea been abandoned? (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Further discussion on ldraw.org
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| Ok, everyone, I'm this close > < to getting the ring site done and uploaded... and so that means that I will start design sketches on the graphic part of the site which I will complete before HTML coding. Does anyone have further thoughts or issues (...) (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Java LDraw/LDLite
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| [lugnet.cad removed from Newsgroups header] (...) Yes, it's fairly easy to write an HTTP daemon in Perl. Pre-forking and load balancing and shared memory for optimal usage is a little more difficult. But in either case, it's just a one-liner in the (...) (26 years ago, 27-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Part Numbering Crisis in LDraw
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| (...) I concur. Part of the beauty and flexibility of LDraw is that you can model with parts in colors that those parts don't come in. Once we start down the road of having parts hard coded only in the color(s) they really exist in, we limit our (...) (26 years ago, 27-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Java LDraw/LDLite
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| (...) Why not serve both compressed and uncompressed versions? (...) Amen to that! Say, Greg, how's about posting the URL of your Blacktron Galaxy Explorer over in the .build group? Probably a lot of new-timers there who haven't seen it yet. (...) (...) (26 years ago, 26-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Java LDraw/LDLite
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| (...) Another benefit of a Java version is that it's *much* easier to write networkable apps with Java than with C / C++. Parts updates can be automagically downloaded and installed from a "parts server"; alternatively, individual parts could be (...) (26 years ago, 25-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Java LDraw/LDLite
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| (...) It's surprisingly easy. Java actually doesn't suck! :) You just allocate a buffer, designate it as being a graphics buffer, and call functions to do graphics primitives. Here's an example -- not probably a great example because it's 3 years (...) (26 years ago, 25-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Java LDraw/LDLite
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| (...) It's probably even easier now, with the new 2D graphics API finished (1), and a 3D API in the works. I don't claim to know how these work (or even if they're useful for anything :-) but I've seen the 2D API favorably compared to the (...) (26 years ago, 25-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Java LDraw/LDLite
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| (...) I've though a bit about this -- I think I would prefer uncompressed individual files, as this would make parts updates easier on the server end. Just copy the /P and /PARTS dirs to the Web server. (1) <DEVILS_ADVOCATE> However, the JDK now has (...) (26 years ago, 26-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Yes, definitely if as an app would you have all the files locally. I was talking about an applet that would not. You don't want to have to download the entire zip file every time because it would be fairly large. Having individually compressed (...) (26 years ago, 26-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Java LDraw/LDLite
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| [removed lugnet.cad from Newsgroups line] (...) I think the speed comparison depends on whether you use mod_perl or CGI+Perl or a specialized Perl HTTP daemon. Of course, if the code running on the server is Java, a Servlet is almost certainly the (...) (26 years ago, 27-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: concave polys and LDraw
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| (...) unfortunately because of our limitatiions here, i can't illustrate the problem... but if you take a 4-pointed chevron-type shape... sort of like a "V" and hand its points off to LDraw, it comes out as a triange... that's bad if you need the (...) (26 years ago, 26-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Java LDraw/LDLite
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| (...) I think I'm 98% there -- I downloaded and installed the JRE and I have local copies of the jldraw.jar as you suggested, but when I do C:\LDRAW>"\program files\javasoft\jre\1.1\bin\jre" -cp jldraw.jar izzy.graphics.Tester I get the error (...) (26 years ago, 4-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Java LDraw/LDLite
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| (...) There is a servlet program plugin for Apache on Linux or NT at (URL) We're using the IIS version of it on NT. It is nice and speedy for java servlets. I assume the lugnet server is Linux. (...) Hmm... how long does it take ldlite to render an (...) (26 years ago, 27-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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