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Tim, You have been the cornerstone and evangelist for Ldraw since James' untimely death. I cannot imagine the Steering Committee without you. I support your candidacy for the Steering Committee. Kevin (20 years ago, 11-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Steering Committee Candidate Kevin Clague - backgrounder and position statement
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(...) Reposting also. [snip lots of good stuff] (...) Kevin - You're a great guy, and I sincerely appreciate all of the contributions you have made to the LDraw community. I'd like to proudly voice my support to your candidacy for the Steering (...) (20 years ago, 11-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Steering Committee Candidate Kevin Clague - backgrounder and position statement
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(...) I think Kevin brings a lot to the table. He's got the tool author's perspective, as well as having a good user perspective and a solid grounding in general software development. He would make a great committee member and I look forward to (...) (20 years ago, 11-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Steering Committee Candidate Kevin Clague - backgrounder and position statement
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This is a repost to the proper group. I first started using LDraw and MLCAD when I finished my first successful biped robot. I had only one RCX, and if I was going to make anything else I was going to have to take apart my robot. It was easier (...) (20 years ago, 11-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Steering Committee candidate Willy Tschager - backgrounder and position statement
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Hi folks, is it my turn? Looks like. Okay then: I've been an LDraw user since 1999 and became deeper involved with the community when I started betatesting MLCad on a regular basis. The passage from pure bug-hunting to part-authoring occurred in (...) (20 years ago, 10-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Steering Committee candidate Anders Isaksson - backgrounder and position statement
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Oh well, I suppose one has to write something... This is me, (URL) been on the outskirts of the LDRAW community since before lugnet (the LCAD list). Not very active, but always actively following all that's happening. I have not created any official (...) (20 years ago, 9-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations to LDraw.org Steering Committee
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(...) I, Anders Isaksson, accept this nomination. -- Anders Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (2 URLs) (20 years ago, 9-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Three Cheers for the Admins!!!
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I just wanted to give a great big public "THANK YOU!!!" to Steve and Chris, for reviewing *SEVERAL* ***HUNDRED*** FILES in the past few days. [1] HUZZAH!!! :D Franklin 1. "(URL) (20 years ago, 9-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !
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| | Numbers Report - 9 April 2004
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Stats for Unofficial Files 372 certified files. 196 files need admin review. 365 files need more votes. 437 have uncertified subfiles. 184 held files. Total Files: 1,554 Comparison with Prev. Report: 2004-04-09: 372 / 196 / 365 / 437 / 184 (1,554) (...) (20 years ago, 9-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations to LDraw.org Steering Committee
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(...) I, James Reynolds, second this nomination. James (20 years ago, 9-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Larry pointed out a spelling error in my last attempt at this nomination so I'll try again. Also, I'm cross posting to the Mac subgroup so maybe this'll be seen by the interested parties. Anyhow... I Don Heyse nominate Andrew Allan. (20 years ago, 9-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations to LDraw.org Steering Committee
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(...) Hi Willy, hi René, after a month I found out that I you nominated me as a candidate for the LSC. In the moment I have to decline this nomination. I'm not able to do the job of a committee member. But thank's for the faith in me. CU Bernd (20 years ago, 9-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations to LDraw.org Steering Committee
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(...) I, Kevin Clague, accept this nomination. (20 years ago, 9-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw.org Steering Committee Candidates - A summary
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(...) Please email me with the details of corrections, as I asked in the original post and in the post you're responding to, right above where you posted a correction. I'd prefer that people not clutter up the thread with corrections, thanks. (20 years ago, 8-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw.org Steering Committee Candidates - A summary
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Larry Pieniazek wrote: [ (URL) ] (...) It appears that you somehow mixed up Anders Isaksson and Kevin L. Clague. Jacob (20 years ago, 8-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw.org Steering Committee Candidates - A summary
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(...) Well, as it turns out, posting this article and announcing it here kicked off a flurry of corrections, acceptances, declines, and new nominations. (all which have been to the proper thread, don't post them HERE!) :-) ... which I sort of (...) (20 years ago, 8-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations to LDraw.org Steering Committee
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(...) I have been reminded that this is not the proper expression [1], so I try again: I second this nomination. Jacob [1] Hi Larry. :-) (20 years ago, 8-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations to LDraw.org Steering Committee
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(...) I support this nomination. Jacob (20 years ago, 8-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations to LDraw.org Steering Committee
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(...) I accept my nomination as a LDraw.org Steering Committee candidate. Jacob (20 years ago, 8-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations to LDraw.org Steering Committee
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(...) I, Mike Thorn, second this nomination. (20 years ago, 8-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations to LDraw.org Steering Committee
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I Don Heyse nominate Anders Isaksson. (20 years ago, 8-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations to LDraw.org Steering Committee
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I Don Heyse, nominate Kevin L. Clague. (20 years ago, 8-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Call for Nominations to LDraw.org Steering Committee
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(...) Uh oh, I forgot about this. Thanks for the nomination, but I'm gonna have to decline. I don't think I have enough time to handle the responsibilities. Besides, you probably don't want me right now. With the color change and all, I've been much (...) (20 years ago, 8-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | LDraw.org Steering Committee Candidates - A summary
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Hi all.. The flow of nominations, seconds and acceptances (that is, posts in (URL) this> thread) has slowed down considerably, and the election is coming up sooner than you might think. So I thought it might be a good idea for the LDraw.org site to (...) (20 years ago, 7-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX) !!
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| | Re: POV settings
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(...) That's a great idea! I've never played around to much with the color definitions, and I imagine that they'd go a long way toward improving image quality. I never would have thought of the camera-location light_source. That might be just the (...) (20 years ago, 7-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: POV settings
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Another thing may be that your models are mainly black. Black is much more difficult than lighter colors, especially if it's shiny black. Your transparent parts look awfully good, for example (although a bit too clear to be real - I now remember (...) (20 years ago, 7-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: POV settings
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(...) True. I think much of the difference is that mine is a 'world', and on another scale. Doing just one of the houses doesn't give the same depth experience at all. One thing that I have been using for a while now is a dim light at the *same* (...) (20 years ago, 7-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: POV settings
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(...) At a glance, I'd have to say that this looks rather similar to the settings I'm using (which I stole/adapted from information discussed in this thread: (URL) If your eyes can stand to see clone MOCs, here are a few samplings: (URL) Of course, (...) (20 years ago, 7-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) NOTE: POVRay 3.5 assumed in the following! It's the standard colors generated by L3P, and the original radiosity ideas, but I fiddled a bit with the radiosity and other settings in the .pov-file: #declare AMB = 0; #declare DIF = 0.8; (...) (20 years ago, 7-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Voting now open for April's MOTM and SOTM contests
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(...) does it have to do with POV-Ray? 8^) May I ask what color palette you used, and how long it took to render? It's clear that I'll have to start working with perspective settings. Now that I've seen successful results, I won't be happy until (...) (20 years ago, 7-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Voting now open for April's MOTM and SOTM contests
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(...) to see your example. If I can get it to work, great! Thanks, Dave! (20 years ago, 6-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Voting now open for April's MOTM and SOTM contests
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(...) Orion, there's no need to apologize! I expressed an *opinion*, not everyone has the same opinion. Sorry if you read it as criticism of *you*. That was not my intention. The 'one style fits all' is perfect for MOTM, it levels the ground for all (...) (20 years ago, 6-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Voting now open for April's MOTM and SOTM contests
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(...) MMLLT (My Mileage Looks Like This): (URL) { location 0.84*<-1500 ,-1500 ,-4000> sky -y right -4/3*x look_at <300, -150, 1300> angle 40 rotate <0,1e-5,0> // Prevent gap between adjecent quads focal_point <150,-50,-150> aperture 25 blur_samples (...) (20 years ago, 6-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Voting now open for April's MOTM and SOTM contests
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(...) I'm mostly in the 5-45 range, probably depends on the model and intent of picture too. -- Anders Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (2 URLs) (20 years ago, 6-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Voting now open for April's MOTM and SOTM contests
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(...) Non-orthographic perspective renderings never seem to work for me. They always look like flat, rendered with artifical perspective rather than rendered objects seen in perspective. But YMMV, of course! Dave! (20 years ago, 6-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Voting now open for April's MOTM and SOTM contests
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Hello Orion Well.. i think the renders turned out great and it shows each model in a neutral way. I know it is a lot of work to do these not to mention even the time you have to put in this. I still need the authors desire to show their model in the (...) (20 years ago, 6-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Voting now open for April's MOTM and SOTM contests
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(...) Yes. (...) No. I did after all post all this once before, so it's not that I didn't WANT to share it... (...) So fix your bug already! :-) (20 years ago, 6-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Voting now open for April's MOTM and SOTM contests
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(...) Since you're either lazier than I am, or you have an aversion to sharing, I did the search myself and found the your Mlcad view settings. :^) (URL) -A0.71,0,0.71,0.28,0...,0.39,0.65 -v4 to ldglite and pressing F12 gives these l3p camera (...) (20 years ago, 6-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Voting now open for April's MOTM and SOTM contests
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(...) I'm coming around to that viewpoint as well... much easier to standardise. (20 years ago, 6-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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