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Well, the half-octagonal <part:6066> is "Castle Turret Top 4 x 8 x 2 & 1/3" according to LDRAW, so this one could be similar - perhaps "Castle Turret Corner 7 x 7 x 2 & 1/3". Should start with Castle, anyway, so as to sort with the other Castle (...) (23 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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Castle Turret Quarter 7 x 7 x 2 & 1/3 Since it's one-fourth of a complete turret and similar to the Castle Turret Top. (23 years ago, 19-Mar-01, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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(...) heh, good point - I had no idea what this part was, had to look up the instructions on brickshelf, then dig up the part to make sure it was indeed that number. Took a picture and will put it up in a few minutes... As for the name change, I'm (...) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-01, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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I just noticed that part 6072 (according to Peeron) has a really bad name right now: Crenelations 7 x 7. Now, I really hate this piece, but it's been around for eight years now and I would have had no idea what it was if I didn't own set 6076. Does (...) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-01, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: How to join Brictionary project?
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(...) There's a related project (ongoing) which right now (or recently was) taking a look at reorganizing names and categories for LDraw parts -- a great place to help with that out would be to check around in the lugnet.cad.dev group. Look for (...) (24 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | How to join Brictionary project?
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This group seems to be pretty quiet most of the time. I was wondering just what exactly the current status was of the Brictionary project and how someone who has not previously been involved with it (i.e., myself) could become a part of it. It's a (...) (24 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: Which sets had the following in them?
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(...) [snip] (...) The two closed containers in harbour/nautical set #6542 Launch & Load Seaport both had a white window frame 1x4x3 with white shutters, so two frames with shutters in total. See: (URL) container is on the blue trailer, the other, (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jul-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.db.scans)
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I remember the Pizza To Go set had a white window frame with white shutters on the back of the delivery van. Of course mine are sort of yellow now, its an old set. You probably won't find it in a store, but if you use auctions then you might be able (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jul-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.db.scans)
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| | Which sets had the following in them?
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I'm looking for information on any sets that had any of the following pieces in them: Blue OR Red window frame 1x4x3 with or without white shutters (But preferably with, as I had a blue frame with white shutters and want to know where it comes (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jul-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.db.scans)
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| | Do brown 1x4 bricks exist?
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I'm working on the 3rd story of my brown and tan building. Why have I never seen a 1x4 brown brick? Do they exist? Where? Just when we get some brick bulk paks, I develop a need for an unavailable color! (24 years ago, 4-Jul-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: I am looking for a roof brick.
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(...) Hmmmmm, yes gray is rarer than yellow, but it was not available to the public (was it?). One could make a case for saying that any colors not available to us, but available to the model shops for LEGOLAND buildings are the rarest. If these (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jun-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) one (...) Wouldn't gray be the rarest since it only appeared in the prototype snow speeders? KL (24 years ago, 29-Jun-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) Geoffrey, Yes, these are among the most highly prized roof slopes. Take for example the yellow corner slopes - they are among the rarest of all slopes. The low slope is found only in the 7740 Intercity Train, the medium slope is found only in (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jun-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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6350 "Pizza To Go" has four in red. (URL) Lasko (legoteem on eBay, AOL and elsewhere) (24 years ago, 28-Jun-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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If you are in the U.S., kbkids.com has the 6497 on sale right now for under $12, too. Andy Lynch <andy@andyandjackie.com> wrote in message news:006e01bfe0f1$54...lth.com... (...) sets (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jun-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) (URL) can be ordered on-line from The Construction Site in Waltham MA, USA. (URL) look under Dacta -> Supplementary Sets. (...) Amen, I would even go for some of these in some Illogical colors for say a Gingerbread type house or other special (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jun-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) corner) (...) Don't both metro and retro station have these in black? (URL) count 6 in each... Not exactly a cheap way to get them but cheaper than going back to 1986... Agreed, we need more corner slopes, all the different kinds there are, in (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jun-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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<set:6497> Twisted Time Train has two of these in Black. They are in the front of the train, as a sort of a cow catcher. -Andy Lynch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Geoffrey Hyde" <ghyde@ledanet.com.au> <snip> (...) set (...) in (...) <snip> (24 years ago, 28-Jun-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: What words describe the Lego elements?
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Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message news:389C782A.9F4529...ger.net... Are you sure you're not getting too nitpicky? <gdr> Some people don't even know how to insert umlauts, AE characters and whatever else can't be typed normally, (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jun-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: I am looking for a roof brick.
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Six (6) black ones come with both the 4554 Metrostation and 2150 Retrostation. Four (4) red ones come with the 633 Red Roof Bricks which is (I believe) still available in Europe. I bought three or four when I was last in Stockholm (which it looks (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jun-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: I am looking for a roof brick.
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It sounds like you mean the 3x3 low-slope outside corner brick. (convex corner) A pair of black ones come with 6497, Twisted Time Train A pair of blue ones come with 3053, Emperor's Stronghold 20 red ones come with DACTA 9265, Low Slope Roof Bricks (24 years ago, 28-Jun-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | I am looking for a roof brick.
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I am looking for low-sloped roof bricks like the ones used in certain sets circa 1986 as found in the following sets: 6689 Post Office (Todd's search results bring back Post-Station but the set has the black 3x3x1 low slope corner roof brick which (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jun-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Lego classification system
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Interesting work. I suggest eliminating theme-specific whenever it is used as elements have a way of appearing in other themes. Even decorated tiles that seemingly have no use whatever outside of the theme where they appeared may well migrate. For (...) (24 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: Lego classification system
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(...) I object to a hard-coded limit of 9 on general principals :-). Seriously though, if there isn't a _really_ good reason for this limit (especially having it as low as 9) then don't do it. Regards, Steve Hodge (24 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: Lego classification system
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So this signature should have the correct address for my WWWeb page. -- Thanks for your consideration. Bill Bourn {(URL) (24 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Lego classification system
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Here is an outline of the first levels of the classification system I'm implementing. It's derived from Auczilla categories to some degree, but I limited the number of categories to nine. Each category can have 9 sub-categories, with a further 9 (...) (24 years ago, 11-Feb-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: Online LEGO Inventory Database
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Steve Bliss wrote in message ... (...) with (...) and (...) Here is the current scema. I have decided to concentrate on the parts section, and themn move onto creating a set inventory section (which I think will be the easy part)... Total of 6 (...) (24 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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Steve Bliss wrote in message ... (...) with (...) and (...) It will be a relational database, and I tend to remove all hard codings possible. I will be designing the schema later today, and posting it for everyone to rip apart =) --Eric (24 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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(...) Having a good list of properties at the start is a good idea, but don't hard-code specific properties into the schema. It's just a many-to-many relation between parts and properties. Assuming a relational approach. Steve (24 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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(...) have (...) I'd thought about this earlier, but forgot to mention it. (...) based (...) Once (...) avoid (...) Yeah, I agree. One of the other threads had come to the same conclusion and are curently trying to decide exactly which properties (...) (24 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Gryphon Bricks (Mac) -> LDraw database
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I've put together a few pages with an inventory of the Gryphon Bricks parts, and attempted to cross-reference them with LDraw pieces from Steve Bliss' site. Take a look at: (URL) is a first pass: there are some mistakes here and there, and quite a (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.db.brictionary)
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(...) Yep. (...) Oh, and each description should probably be tagged with a source. That way, when we change the description of some part in LDraw, the cross-reference database can be updated. (...) Yep. A better approach may be modeling a set of (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: Online LEGO Inventory Database
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(...) collate. (...) Yep. The difficulty is in matching up the descriptions from the various sources (e.g. which LDraw part is this Technica part?). Sometimes it's easy, somethimes it's not. (...) Yep. (...) part (...) a (...) and (...) That's the (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.db.inv)
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| | Re: What words describe the Lego elements?
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(...) went in and updated the description parameters to include a count of holes in the piece. So if you see the page before I've updated the page with a new image, just pretend there's a hole-count category, OK? Thanks again. Billb. (24 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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(...) From the discussion so far, I can tell that some of us may be confusing a classification system with being able to identify a Lego element. In the perfect database, the inquiry about a piece would not need to know *anything* about how the data (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: Online LEGO Inventory Database
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(...) 'The database' should allow multiple descriptions per piece. And should have the major descriptions pre-loaded. The core element table should have an abstract key value, and a pointer to a graphic image for each part. A second table, call it (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.db.inv)
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| | Re: The Lepanadat Project (update 1)
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(...) Of course you can use the database I'm working on now for a set inventory. Creating a set inventory was also one of my goals when I started with the Lepanadat project, but it takes a lot of time, so it would probably take many, many years (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.db.inv)
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| | Re: Online LEGO Inventory Database
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(...) One problem we have at the moment is that the various sources of parts lists (LDraw, Tim Vattima's set inventories, Auczilla, Technica, etc) all contain different subsets of the full parts list and use different descriptions. We need to (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.db.inv)
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(...) I (...) to (...) Perhaps (...) be (...) Sounds good to me! I'm going to begin by designing the database to hold the data, and deciding on the best method to catalog the parts, or the best existing database to use for the parts. Any suggestions (...) (24 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.db.inv)
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| | Re: What words describe the Lego elements?
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(...) It was... 2 letters off is less than 10% margin of error, which is good enough when you're estimating. :-) Are you sure there isn't an umlaut or AE joined or something in his last name? :-) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: What words describe the Lego elements?
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(...) Nope, "Linnaeus" is spelled correctly. However if the "A" above refers to his first name that's wrong, his first name is Carolus. If not, nevermind. -Chris (24 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: What words describe the Lego elements?
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(...) Respectfully disagree. Animals are all related (1), and the nomenclature, driven by the Linnaeus classification system, reflects that relationship. Lego elements, except in limited cases, are not related to each other by derivation or (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: What words describe the Lego elements?
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After thinking about this a lot, I think we need a nomenclature that is similar to the binomial nomenclature that they use for animals. These could be coupled to a standard name, such as lupus wilus, aka Wiley Coyote. The technical name would allow (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: The Lepanadat Project (update 1)
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I will be creating a set inventory database, with a web-based searchable interface, and will be, of course, needing some way to refer to each of the parts int he inventory. I would like to put your database online also, in a searchable format, and (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.db.inv)
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| | Re: What words describe the Lego elements?
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(...) I had also thought about this subject. One of the names that also should appear in the Lepanadat project is some sort of systematic name. This would allow people to find a picture of the piece and the various names for the piece. I had a few (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: The Lepanadat Project (update 1)
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It has been a while since I updated the page for the last time. Because I found a new job and had to move, I lately had not very much time over. I also still had to do many things for my own collection, so the Lepanadat project was somewhat on the (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: What words describe the Lego elements?
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(...) Or "How good a missile is it to throw at my kid brother?" Both are hard to quantify, don't you think? I'm sure neither question will be asked by my version of the brictionary. I do have a small JPG file of the MS Access display of (...) (24 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: What words describe the Lego elements?
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(...) A common piece of information, that many neophytes could supply: "How much does it hurt when you step on the piece barefoot?" Steve (24 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | What words describe the Lego elements?
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One of the tasks of the bricktionary is to allow the identification of an in-hand Lego element. The user would supply various descriptor words based on what he sees of the object in front of him. What might then happen is a sort of expert system (...) (24 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: The Lepanadat Project (update 1)
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Mike, I have consolidated Margo's castle/pirate inventories into one file with the fields Set Number, Quantity, Part Description, and Colour. I could extract a list of unique contents of Part Description as well, and I'm working on adding the field (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: The Lepanadat Project (update 1)
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If I can get somebody to get the nomenclature down, I will offer to set up a database that will accept the inventories. I was starting on that same project, but it was indeed too immense for me to do alone. I would really like to see an updated (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: The Lepanadat Project (update 1)
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Has anyone heard anything more about this project? The site has apparently not been updated since the 22nd of September 1999. In the absence of any substantive news, I have embarked on my own consolidation of piece descriptions and image files. It (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Element Count Trivia
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"2,172 is the total of different moulded elements in 1999. There are 97 LEGO PRIMO elements, 399 LEGO DUPLO elements, 157 LEGO SCALA elements, 903 LEGO SYSTEM elements, 357 LEGO TECHNIC elements and 137 LEGO DACTA elements – and that’s not counting (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Partsref is Moving to LUGNET
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(...) Yah. Keeping my _sed & awk_ and _Programming Perl_ within reach isn't a matter of life and death -- it's much more important than that. But make is really a simple tool. I wonder just how useful an entire book for it would be. The last one I (...) (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Partsref is Moving to LUGNET
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(...) Oh, I dunno about O'Reilly... :-) Their stuff is spotty. It varies from good, up through Insanely Great, all the way to YOU CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT THIS BOOK. I wish they'd just pick a quality level and stick to it. :-) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Partsref is Moving to LUGNET
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Steve Bliss wrote in message ... [ ... snip ... ] (...) There is a very good Make book available from O'Reilly & Associates, _Managing Software Projects with Make_. I have found that this book always seems to have an example for something I was (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Partsref is Moving to LUGNET
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(...) I'm not sure I want to do them all (though the list was much shorter than I thought it would be), but here's a start, the very first on the list. Here are the sets (that I know of) released since 1992, with black 1x1 bricks, sorted reverse on (...) (25 years ago, 5-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: Partsref is Moving to LUGNET
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(...) Todd and Joshua D. have an amazing number inventoried, between them. At least that's my suspicion. It's convincing them to make the data available in a format I can run reverse queries against that is the hard part. (25 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.brictionary)
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(...) lugnet.general? lugnet.helpwanted? The current problem is that there aren't that many published inventories for current sets. So you need to hook up to someone who is A-R enough to inventory everything themselves,. Steve (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: Partsref is Moving to LUGNET
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(...) I'm going to need to keep a vanilla installation, just for partsref generation. It's too tempting to make minor edits to part files in my regular installation. And, if I'm going to have two copies of LDraw, I'd rather have "working" and (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Partsref is Moving to LUGNET
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[should've snipped the ng list, but I didn't--couldn't decide which to keep/exclude] (...) So, as both the new Keeper of the LDraw Library and the Keeper of the Partsref Pages, I could build a make, and apply it everytime I get new candidate files (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Partsref is Moving to LUGNET
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I haven't gotten any nibbles, can someone suggest a group better suited to answering this question? (...) <for one part> (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: Partsref is Moving to LUGNET
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(...) This is kludgy but might work. Details left as an exercise. Your problem is that what you want is to know when a file is *new to YOU* not what it's timestamp is. Keep two complete sets of .dat files. One is an image of the state of files, but (...) (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Partsref is Moving to LUGNET
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(...) You could try the version which comes with Cynwin32: (URL) used Beta 20.1; it seems pretty stable. If you're not too keen on using the Unix sub-layer (slow), try dmake: (URL) it seems to have gone commercial -- you have to *pay* for the (...) (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Partsref is Moving to LUGNET
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(...) Yep, I'm familiar with make. I even went to look for one once. Do you know how hard it is to search the net for 'make'? I never could figure out a decent set of search-words... Oh, wait. I've got a make.exe with my old copy of Turbo Pascal. (...) (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Are you familiar with the make utility? It allows you to describe an arbitrary set of modules, with their associated interdependencies, and then re-build only the modules which have changed and modules dependant upon them. Of course, using (...) (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Partsref is Moving to LUGNET
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(...) That's fine with me. The only downside is applying updates. When new parts are released for LDraw, I don't update individual partsref images and pages, I just regenerate the whole shebang. So any manual edits would probably get overwritten. (...) (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) Yeah I was thinking that the third size should be a composite of four views top, left, bottom, and right. Should the floor be kept in this kind of view? Ie: Rotate Part over floor rather than 4 Cameras, nuking the floor only on the bottom (...) (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: Partsref is Moving to LUGNET
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Excellent! After looking at them I think that other perspectives are more important than colors. Have you tried experimenting with the ambient light option in povray? I don't think l3p gives you that option but you can modify the pov files l3p (...) (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: Partsref is Moving to LUGNET
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(...) I Started this Several Weeks ago, I have already run Pov-Ray for the Thumbs and the Large Size. I have only the two sizes done so far. What would you call normal Size, I had not figured out a good third size any suggestions? All pngs, 128x96 (...) (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.brictionary)
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(...) Speaking of which... I just posted my wants list. I want hundreds of most of the items on it. Someone pointed out to me that if I could tell of sets that had large quantities of the parts I might get better responses. Given the current state (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.brictionary)
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One thing I noticed with the DAT explorer is that POV rendered images look _MUCH_ better with the lossless PNG format thatn with JPEG. Perhaps appropriate use of the JPEG smoothing function would help the the tests I did looked bad even at 100% (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.cad.ray)
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(...) IMHO, the best thing is having both (a) super-quick-loading GIFs and (b) high-quality POV JPEGs, and then letting the user decide which one to view. A while back, someone even suggested having spinning/rotating POV-rendered images for each (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.cad.ray)
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Kevin Loch <kloch@opnsys.com> wrote in message news:FM32ur.BwF@lugnet.com... (...) I agree. Some parts--especially those with lots of rounded surfaces--can be hard to make out in LDraw. POVRAY works much better for these parts (and for decorated (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.brictionary)
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(...) Cool! (...) Is there any desire to have povray rendered images for each part? I still think that would be cool, even though the ldraw versions are more useful for some things. It would also be nice to be able to either: 1. have all parts (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.brictionary)
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(...) Well, like it says on the page, "To reference a part image, when you already know the LDraw number for that part, use the following URL format. (URL).gif" In other words, linking directly to these images is OK in this case. (...) These are (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: Looking for pieces to trade at the meeting (November and Dece mber )
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Not to nit pick too much, but I feel we would be helped if we standardized the terms a bit. I think that there are some elements that are referred to differently than "industry standard" that I have commented on. If I can get to the Decemer meeting, (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: Best way to make parts images?
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(...) Quick and Dirty: - Install LDLite and LDraw Add-On - Point LDAO at LDLite for catalog-images (see (URL)). - Run the Make Catalog repeatedly, once for each color. - After running each color-batch, copy/convert all the files in ldraw\vec\ to a (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Best way to make parts images?
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(...) I once wrote a program to create GIFs from the LeoCAD library for a person who wanted to build a database with all parts. If you're interested, just tell me how you want the files (size, color, command line options) and I'll recompile it (or (...) (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.cad)
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(...) I don't think I agree. The images produced by LDLITE or something similar contain much more information, as they include the edge-lines in the parts. I tried to use raytraced images for instructions once, but I quickly came to the conclusion (...) (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.cad)
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I would use l3p and povray, but since l3p only runs on wintel, you have to do that part on a wintel box. Here's how I would do it: 1. Make a batch file to create a dat file for each part. 2. make a batch file to run l3p on each of those dat files 3. (...) (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.cad)
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What's the "best"[1] automated or semi-automated way to render a large number of parts images into GIFs? (It's OK if there are multiple steps or if a final pass has to convert the results from PNG or BMP to GIF.) What I would like to do for the (...) (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.cad)
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(...) Well, it's not trying to yet...that part is still a ways out. (...) Right. That interface was a quick prototype and an experiment to get the feel of cross-referencing hops between different object types. It was never meant as anything but a (...) (25 years ago, 10-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.admin.database)
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(...) Well, there are several reasons I am not going to do that. First off is that I know how to program Access. Those who know how to program other systems have not put forth the time to make one in their programming language of choice, so I will (...) (25 years ago, 10-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: wishing upon a star
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(...) Har! No, really...you brains good and my bad and me grammar good too! I got exactly what I wanted...a flurry of responses, in a simple endeavor to find out if the best and brightest have come up with any solutions to a part search and (...) (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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(...) c /here/hear/ ... but who's here to notice? (...) Swelled heads typically occur when new facts are uttered. Nothing was by Dave that I didn't already know to be true about myself so there's no danger of (additional) swelling. But seriously, I (...) (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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In lugnet.db.brictionary, Dave Lovelace writes: [SNIP] (...) ...you are all truly brilliant, and obviously experienced, (...) Please don't let Lar here this! His head is quite large enough already.... :^) as evah, John C. (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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(...) Not so fast, my humble friend... Just because it isn't used as the database key or as the "unique definitive" part number doesn't mean your part numbers have no merit. I supported your suggestion because I felt it was appropriate to include a (...) (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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(...) It sounds like you're talking about the mold quality control numbers. On most LEGO parts that a large enough concealed surface, you find three numbers -- two vary from part to part for the reasons you describe. These are usually one or two (...) (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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(...) Thank you for the kind words, John...and the insights. I am a two-month old "newbie" and have very little to offer gods of thinking such as yourself, and also of course the other geniuses involved in this discussion, other than simple hero (...) (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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Let me add my support to this as well. Make the key be some arbitrary unique number. I've been programming for about 17-18 years, and in the early days I would have disagreed. Experience has proven otherwise. --- Dave Hylands Email: (...) (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: OID generation (was: Re: wishing upon a star)
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(...) Quick answer: yes. Long answer: Almost certainly. There are some tradeoffs that you've made. A big one is around the human readability of the key. Ask yourself, how often do humans inspect these, and how fast can you convert back to 40bit (...) (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) For anyone that might not know this, Mold numbers are not unique. A mold is setup for all the parts and it makes more than 1 piece at a time. If you take the 2x4 brick mold, it could possibly do 8 bricks at a time which means each brick in the (...) (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | OID generation (was: Re: wishing upon a star)
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(...) Lar, I've been experimenting with a method for OID construction which takes a pseudorandom 32-bit integer, converts it to a 40-bit integer by adding 8 bits of CRC, then converts that an to 8-byte base-32 ASCII representation using the 32 (...) (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: wishing upon a star
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(...) It's known to be not unique, there's a many-to-many relationship between TLG numbers and unique mold-forms. That is, the same number has been used for different parts (at least, different versions of parts), and different numbers have been (...) (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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(...) Whoops. Talking in shorthand tripped me up. In system-architect-speak "business" logic is the actual desired work effort of the program (contrasted with non business logic which is the infrastructure or other code that you have to do in order (...) (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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In lugnet.db.brictionary, Dave Lovelace writes: [SNIP] (...) Well, not so fast. All ideas are welcome here. Maybe a larger perspective might help. I understand the frustration of an ignoramus coming to LEGO parts naming and numbering. I've been (...) (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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(...) Pardon my inexperience. I am neither a program designer, nor a person with any business logic whatsoever...perhaps I should have footnoted these factss before sticking my idea out here. I think that 90% of the users of a would-be (...) (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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(...) Precisely. It's not guaranteed to be unique and it has business meaning. Now, clearly, the underlying DB implementation should index on that column because we are likely to be doing a lot of lookups, but that is an optimization/implementation (...) (25 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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(...) Taking that to the ultimate suggests even the TLG part number should not be the key (which of course is already a known issue if you want to account for color and/or printing). (25 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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