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| (...) lugnet?" (...) I'll tell you why: * Because we're close. Most of us have met face-to-face, I think. So it's probably true of a lot of the smaller loc's, but LUGNET tends to notice it with Australia.... for some reason. ;-) * Because we don't (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jun-01, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.loc.au)
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| Crossposted to admin.general (...) <snip> While I can't take credit for Duane's great idea this is even better than what I was thinking. I was thinking just a post with an allready defined Acronym once a week to keep the visability of the page up in (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jun-01, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Agreed. The idea of posting a FAQ link once a week (if it used some new humourous tidbit so it was a fresh post) to catch the eye of newbies is also good, IMHO. And as far as adding more entries to the commonfolks FAQ... anything to reduce my (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.faq)
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| The original Pantone pallette I used had CMYK values, I translated them via Photoshop for your convience. I assumed in web development (like the colors use on the BricWorx color selector) and most non-print graphic design are done in RGB. SteveB (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.trains, lugnet.faq, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad)
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| (...) HSL and HSV are both valid models, IIRC I think they are close but not the same. I forget the difference. I think Luminance (and the entire RGB model too) is more useful or applicable for things that do color by giving off light, like monitors (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.trains, lugnet.faq, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad)
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| (...) OK. That's what Eric was suggesting. (...) No no... the reference was not a new *acronym* every week, but a new and humor-oriented entry to the "commonfolk's FAQ", which is more a joke than a real FAQ. I was not even *thinking* of "making up" (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.faq)
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| (...) CMYK is Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black (subtractive color model vs RGB additive color model). CMY gives you a muddled gray/brown so K is added for pure black. Go to (URL) then option 2b, Color Theory for a nice presentation on the topic. I (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.trains, lugnet.faq, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad)
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| (...) I'm assuming "CMYK" translates to something along the lines of Blue,Red,Yellow,Black? Or more appropriately "Cyan","Magenta","Yellow",K? (what the heck would K be?) If you had the CMYK values, could these be mathematically translated into (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.trains, lugnet.faq, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Actually, I think it would be good to post an already defined acronym to the main LUGNET page. Sort of an "intro to LEGO". That way new people are aware that there are acronyms and a place where they are defined. The current FAQ page is a (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.faq)
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| (...) ought to do that sampling on their own?? I was at an ink manufacturer recently and they can take colors in either RGB or CMYK but prefer the latter. (they also have spectrophotometers that you can just put things under and get ink recipes from (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.trains, lugnet.faq, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Huh. So you mean a post, once a week, including a single acronym that's *already* on the FAQ? Interesting. I wonder if that would be useful. Does anyone else think so, or disagree? From what I understood, the person asking me for the (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.faq)
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| Here's a different type, one for print colors (CMYK). To read those color values, use something like Photoshop to sample inside framed boxes. some of these may be considered official, as well as the naming scheme. (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.trains, lugnet.faq, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Shiri, How about an "Acronym of the Week" instead/as well. A posting with an Acronym of the week with a link to your Acronym page might help a lot of people and cut down on the number of "what does 'POOP', 'SPUD', or 'BURP' stand for" (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.faq)
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| (...) else be interested in that? I think I could manage that. -Shiri (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.faq)
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| (...) Tres useful! Ought to be widely crossposted! (seems like FAQ material, almost) ++Lar (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.publish, lugnet.faq, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) It's definitely mine! :) (...) As with so many things, looking back to the way the English transliterated the terms is helpful in pronouncing them now. Because Turkish was originally in Arabic(-esque?) script, things got spelt in *lots* of (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.faq)
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| (...) Wow, I'm a FAQ subject..:-) Could it be my "Greatest Claim to LEGO Fame" ?..:-) "Sel-" is like "sell" in "buy-sell-trade" but with a shorter "l" sound. "-ç-" is like "ch-" in "chicken" or "chuck". "-u-" is like "-u-" in "put". A passable (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.faq)
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| (...) Australians, generally, have a distaste for *anything*-centric organisation of just about *anything*. (...) True, True. I really must get out more. Cheers Richie Dulin Patrician of Brick-Morpork (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.loc.au)
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| (...) lugnet?>From Richie Dulin: ! (...) Damn they're on to us, Ok all Synchronize watches, Move to PLAN B Muh ha ha ha ha ha ha ha -- Jason King LugNet #665 Shiri Dori <shirid@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:GFHBDA.672@lugnet.com... (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jun-01, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.au)
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