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LEGO Color Reference — Todd Lehman
I've been playing around a bit with LDraw, L3P, and POV-RAY over the past few weeks. In August I tried to do some rendering of individual LEGO elements and found it to be a lot more challenging than I had expected. After much hair-pulling and (...) (22 years ago, 3-Oct-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.announce) !!

	Re: LEGO Color Reference —Tore Eriksson
	(...) The ForestGreen was seen at least from the 60's on 50x50 baseplates and 10x20 brickplates. /Tore (22 years ago, 3-Oct-02, to lugnet.general)

		Re: LEGO Color Reference — Todd Lehman
		(...) OK, thanks, I updated that on the chart. I just "1960?" for now until we can zero in on a more exact year. --Todd (22 years ago, 3-Oct-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.database)

	Re: LEGO Color Reference —Mark Papenfuss
	(...) If you want I would be willing to send you a part in Maersk blue for your reference. Just let me know :) But I did notice some of the colors looked to be off - mostly the lighter colors, but overall it looks good. (...) Where did you get the (...) (22 years ago, 3-Oct-02, to lugnet.general)

		Re: LEGO Color Reference — Todd Lehman
		(...) That's a very kind offer! I'll definitely take you up on that! Are you going to be at NWBrickCon this weekend? (...) Ya I'm not really happy with those yet either -- I need to get a good look at some of them again in person. I'm bringing the (...) (22 years ago, 3-Oct-02, to lugnet.general)

			Re: LEGO Color Reference — Suzanne D. Rich
			(...) Some of the naming on here: (URL) has been used, but isn't necessarially a standard. BTW, names determined that chart's layout (not the other way around). (...) Indeed. or just post it, please. :-) There is, quite possibly, a Colors Dept in (...) (22 years ago, 3-Oct-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)

			Re: LEGO Color Reference —Mark Papenfuss
			(...) I wish I was, it looks like fun. But alas, I am stuck here in San Diego. I thought your addy was on the sign-up page but all I see is Suz's. So if you want you can email me your addy: mark@landofbricks.com so I can get it off to you. (...) I (...) (22 years ago, 3-Oct-02, to lugnet.general)

		Re: LEGO Color Reference — Todd Lehman
		(...) OK, I cleaned up the display a bit on the plane Friday night and just updated it on the site now (from NWBrickCon :-) and it's not perfect but it's a step in the right direction... So now it says: (URL) Dark Green-Cyan (“Forest Green”) First (...) (22 years ago, 6-Oct-02, to lugnet.general)

	Re: LEGO Color Reference —Gary Blessing
	"Todd Lehman" <todd@lugnet.com> wrote in message news:H3E2vv.Cq8@lugnet.com... (...) <snip> (...) <snip> This is Great!IMHO a coupleof the lighter colors are a bit off ; the 'orange' and 'dark orange' don't have enough orange in them(too light).[1] (...) (22 years ago, 3-Oct-02, to lugnet.general)

		Re: LEGO Color Reference — Todd Lehman
		(...) I was wondering about that. Give it a reload and see what you think now... I redefined the basal orange hue to be another 5 degrees further toward red and regenerated all the images in the R-Y quadrant. LEGO orange is really a challenge (...) (22 years ago, 3-Oct-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.ray)

	A suggestion —Miguel Agullo
	Hi, Disclaimer: this is one of those suggestions that might lead you to "not like" me =8D) Why don't you render the bricks using radiosity settings in Povray 3.5? The realism will blow anyone away, althought it takes forever to renders. Take a look (...) (22 years ago, 3-Oct-02, to lugnet.general)

		Re: A suggestion — Todd Lehman
		(...) Miguel, I think that's a splendid idea! And since I'm already using POV-Ray 3.5 for this, it shouldn't be too difficult to add...just more rendering time. It may not make a large qualitative difference on something so simple as a 2x2 brick, (...) (22 years ago, 3-Oct-02, to lugnet.general)

			Re: A suggestion —Miguel Agullo
			(...) I am not so sure. It will hook you and then you'll be a slave of the rendering time, just like back when I ran Pov (and 3DS!) on a 386 with a software co-processor several centuries ago. How do I know? (URL) waaaay too busy at the moment, but (...) (22 years ago, 3-Oct-02, to lugnet.general)

	Re: LEGO Color Reference — Todd Lehman
	(...) I'm curious what names people associate in their minds with LEGO colors -- especially some of the newer ones. Here's a short color poll (4 colors) where you can rate each of several names according to how well it describes the color for you: (...) (22 years ago, 3-Oct-02, to lugnet.general)

		Re: LEGO Color Reference —John Gerlach
		(...) Quick suggestion - could you also display some of the other colors around the one you're asking about? When I went to the second poll, I see a color, but there are several different colors that are very similar, so I don't know which one (...) (22 years ago, 3-Oct-02, to lugnet.general)

			Re: LEGO Color Reference — Todd Lehman
			(...) Good point...I'll redo the polls with more colors after NWBrickCon... (...) It's intended to represent the McDonald's purple and the purple T-Rex from DUPLO. (...) Thanks, ya, if only! --Todd (22 years ago, 3-Oct-02, to lugnet.general)

		Re: LEGO Color Reference —James Jackson
		Not being a member, I couldn't take part in the poll. However, I can tell you that I've called this color ( (URL) ) by different names, from "Decepticon Purple" (since it matches the violet color used in their symbols), to "Grimace Purple" (given I (...) (22 years ago, 7-Oct-02, to lugnet.general)

	Re: LEGO Color Reference —Manfred Moolhuysen
	Very nice project, Todd. I appreciate it. My Feedback: I noticed that 'Clear' and 'OldClear' didn't show on the Card Type "Chonological". This made me count all colors on both Card Types, and I believe that Card Type "Chromatic" holds 82 colors, (...) (22 years ago, 3-Oct-02, to lugnet.general)

		Re: LEGO Color Reference — Todd Lehman
		(...) yeah, sorry about that, I've got a glitch in the chrono chart where it misses some of the colors. I changed the way one of the files was formatted and didn't have time to fix that yet. I'll work on this tonight on my (looooong) flight from (...) (22 years ago, 3-Oct-02, to lugnet.general)

	Re: LEGO Color Reference —James Wilson
	Todd, I've tried to render some "non-standard" colors (like the new dark red) using POV, L3p, etc. and can't seem to get it (not that I've devoted hours and hours...). Would it be possible for your color ref to include the appropriate color # and (...) (22 years ago, 3-Oct-02, to lugnet.general)

		Re: LEGO Color Reference — Todd Lehman
		(...) Ya, when the .inc files get relatively stabilized (maybe in a couple weeks), I'll include more POV-Ray info on the pages. Maybe I should also post the current recipes to .cad.ray for technical feedback before that, because the current settings (...) (22 years ago, 6-Oct-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.ray)

	RE: LEGO Color Reference —Bram Lambrecht
	(...) You're crazy, Todd. Anyway, have you tried using the _clear definitions for the LGEO parts when rendering transparent colors? They use merge instead of union, which should make the cylinders on the corners look more like rounded edges than (...) (22 years ago, 3-Oct-02, to lugnet.general)

		Re: LEGO Color Reference — Todd Lehman
		(...) Oh! I missed that! Thank you, I'll check it out! (...) naw, it would just be finding where to change it in one template file and then kicking the regenerator and it would re-render all the affected images automatically. --Todd [xfut => (...) (22 years ago, 6-Oct-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.ray)

	Re: LEGO Color Reference —Larry Pieniazek
	(...) Not sure where you want corrections sent but... I am pretty sure that the color dark grey (referred to as "dark warm grey", I believe, on the color chart) predates 1989. I think its very first use was for sleepers in the grey/dark grey 12V (...) (22 years ago, 16-Nov-02, to lugnet.general)