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Re: Part naming/organization [was: Re: More inventories on peeron.com!]
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lugnet.db.inv, lugnet.db.brictionary
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Fri, 29 Jun 2001 16:38:38 GMT
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On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 03:33:42PM +0000, TWS Garrison wrote:
> > As for Peeron.com image library--I would like to see SOME categorization of
> > images but would not favor fragmentation similar to partsref.
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> That method of seeing all torsos that Dan Boger mentioned a few messages back
> is really cool---you can see a bunch of pieces at a time (a problem with
> Partsref currently). If it were the same for *similar* pieces---say, all
> minifig headgear on one page---inventories would be a *lot* easier.
heh, I agree - except that I can't think of a way to group headgear
together... not without using keywords or something... (which is
planned, I'll admit).
> > Unnecessary, IMO -- until, perhaps, the time comes that there are lDraw
> > renderings and photographic images of 99% of all Lego elements. That is
> > unlikely due to the (fast) pace in which The Lego Company produces new
> > elements.
>
> Not necessarily. . .in the past week or so, Jenn and Dan Boger have added over
> a hundred high-quality photos to Peeron. Granted, this is an exceptional burst
> of effort (I suspect a vacation)
heh, no, not really - just we got tired of the huge pile of sets waiting
to be inventoried and verified, so we decide to tackle them :)
> , but imagine the potential effect if several
> similarly motivated and talented individuals were to exert a similar effort
> (non-trivial; see http://news.lugnet.com/db/brictionary/?n=144) at a place with
> (potentially) a bunch of pieces (say, Brickfest or a LUG meeting). <dreams of
> easy inventories. . .>
interesting idea, though we usually don't like to take pictures of
pieces that do not have a Master List entry... and are in a set that's
inventoried...
> [3] I'd go crazy if I had to be clicking and digging to find every part while
> doing an inventory, instead of just scrolling and occasionally searching.
heh, nod... we usually just put in the number, if we can find it...
otherwise, the search box on peeron has become a lot more effective,
recently :)
--
Dan Boger / dan@peeron.com / www.peeron.com / ICQ: 1130750
<set:4158_1>: 5+ Building Set (LEGO/SYSTEM/FreeStyle/5+), '97, 129 pcs, 1 figs
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