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Re: [ldraw.org] Cover Model
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lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
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Tue, 6 Jul 1999 22:10:34 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Tim Courtney writes:
> > What's the goal behind an image on the front page (and subsequent pages)
> > anyway? To communicate visually to people that they can do a variety of
> > neat things with LDraw and related tools?
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> Variety yes, but you can hardly demonstrate a variety of things in one
> model image. Something displaying more than one model or multiple
> elements would be too busy, IMO.
Hee hee. Maybe, maybe not. I agree that it would be an incredible
challenge, but I'll bet that it's not impossible. :) Have you seen
Escher's famous _Metamorphose_II_? Here's a thumbnail of it, broken into
five parts because it's one long image:
http://www.worldofescher.com/gallery/MetamorphoseIILg.html
That's quite-a-lotta-stuff going on there in that one image!
Anyway, I don't mean to detract you from important things, or to suggest
that something like that would be worth spending any time on -- just
pointing out a few things purely as food for thought. If you ever really
wanted a single image that covered a huge variety of stuff, it probably
is possible -- just really, really hard. :-)
> Something is special about one completed model that looks good. That is
> the result LDraw users and future LDraw users will want, so why not show
> them that?
Heck, I don't know what future LDraw users would want. I know what *I'd*
want, but I'm not always sane. :)
Jus' tossin' out ideas for ya. :)
--Todd
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| (...) Yeah... (...) Good thought, but ldraw.org is not going to have a splash page like is up there now. When it goes live, the main page with all the info will be displayed. something like that would be more suited for a splash page. So I'm looking (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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