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I have been thinking for a while of writing a FAQ on "how to buy Lego" which I could link to from my eBay and other auctions. This would include things like S@H, Ets Dya and Busy Bee, reading RTL and Lugnet, how to tell a good deal when you see one (...) (25 years ago, 12-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: linking
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(...) It depends on what you're linking to. If you're linking to a site or sub-site's top-level homepage, for example (4 URLs) no, you usually don't ever need permission to do that. However, if you're linking to something like this from inside a (...) (25 years ago, 9-Oct-99, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: SPUDs and POOPs? (Was: Does anyone accually like 4561?)
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(...) I'm debating whether to add that. I am keeping a personal list here: (URL) Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. -- Wernher von Braun The Doctor What: (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: SPUDs and POOPs? (Was: Does anyone accually like 4561?)
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(...) SPUD would be "Special Purpose Ugly Design". Eric Remove ".nospam" when replying by E-mail. The New England LEGO Users Group (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: SPUDs and POOPs? (Was: Does anyone accually like 4561?)
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(...) An acronym list would be keen... The RTLSpeak list is referenced in the LUGNET FAQ material (1), but I don't see any reason why LUGNET can't have its own copy. Unless the acronym list is copyrighted? BURP = Big Ugly Rock Piece SNOT = Studs Not (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.faq)
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| | SPUDs and POOPs? (Was: Does anyone accually like 4561?)
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[ XFUT lugnet.general and lugnet.faq ] Kya Morden: (...) I can't remember SPUDs either. Steve? POOP = Piece (that can be built) Of Other Pieces Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- ---...--- (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.reviews, lugnet.general, lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: FAQqage: How to get zero perspective from L3P?
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Bram Lambrecht wrote in message <19990928.161727.509...no.com>... (...) Bram won the price. Please have a look at (URL) Jeff (onyx) pointed out, L3P already puts the orthographic setting inside the camera definition. It is commented out, so it has (...) (25 years ago, 29-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: FAQqage: How to get zero perspective from L3P?
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(...) It's even easier than that. Just run C:\LDRAW\MODELS>l3p -o -cg30,45 -ca5 somedat.dat and L3P will automatically compute the radius for an angle of 5. I almost always change the camera angle to something between 30 and 50. (-ca30, -ca50) For (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: FAQqage: How to get zero perspective from L3P?
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(...) actually, L3P already puts the orthographic setting inside the camera definition, it just has it REM'd out (//)... go to the end of the .POV file and you should see the camera definition (not quite at the end, but just before the light (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: FAQqage: How to get zero perspective from L3P?
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Sproaticus: (...) There is a camera type for this. It should be enough to add "orthographic" at the beginning of the camera definition[1]. It could be fun, if the DAT Explorer switched to cylindrical projection so we could get to look all the way (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: FAQqage: How to get zero perspective from L3P?
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(...) Argh! It's so simple! ;-) I swear, I'd get over these hurdles more easiliy if there was a recent book for POV-Ray... It would probably help if I read the whole doc, too, but it's like reading a dictionary (I usually get stuck around "G"). :-P (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: FAQqage: How to get zero perspective from L3P?
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(...) This is very simple to achieve. You simply insert the "orthographic" statement inside the "camera" declaration. This will generate an image with the same perspective as LDLITE does, i.e., no perspective at all. Of course, you'll need to alter (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.faq)
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| | FAQqage: How to get zero perspective from L3P?
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I think that's the right question. I'm trying to get L3P to give me zero skewing from perspective; I want an isometric view such as what LDraw gives me. I'm taking the approach that to do this in photography, you should get real far back and zoom (...) (25 years ago, 28-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Jambalaya FAQ?
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(...) Great work, Patricia! If you have the time, I raised some potential FAQ questions earlier, in: (URL) not sure which, if any, are really necessary, but they popped up in my noggin and probably the noggins of some others as well... :-, Cheers, - (...) (25 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya, lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Less-Common Colors
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(...) I have to agree. If TLG wants to be non-violent, no guns anywhere. On the other hand, I think maybe they could draw a line with things like modern day weapons. I think they can give the police hand-held pistols, and still do without (...) (25 years ago, 21-Sep-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Less-Common Colors
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<snip> (...) You will also notice that there are not any real hand-held blasters in Star Wars. The closest they have come to blasters is a Classic Space camera thingy for the Rebel Soldier in the Snowspeeder set and Megaphones with trans-red 1x1 (...) (25 years ago, 21-Sep-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Less-Common Colors
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(...) Sorry, I didn't mean to imply it was a direct quote. The words in quotes are my attempt to re-state what I perceived to be the long-term reasoning from TLG. Steve (25 years ago, 21-Sep-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Less-Common Colors
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(...) I think the answer that Todd suggested (at the last NELUG meeting) was that swords, lances, etc., were added because they're 'historical'... and also you "can't have knights without swords"... as for the cannons, rifles, and pistols, well, I (...) (25 years ago, 20-Sep-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Less-Common Colors
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(...) How is LEGO non-violent if it produces cannons, rifles, pistols, swords, lances, etc, etc. Scott Smallbeck scotts@contactics.com (25 years ago, 20-Sep-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Less-Common Colors
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(...) The historical answer "green and brown (and a few other colors) can be easily used for military models, and LEGO is non-violent, so green and brown aren't allowed, except in limited situations". I don't think the cost of production was a real (...) (25 years ago, 20-Sep-99, to lugnet.faq)
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