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Re: Inferior colour rendering in this year's instructions
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Date: 
Fri, 17 Jan 2003 22:57:23 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Huw Millington writes:
> While at LEGOLAND Windsor last year on 'business' I picked up a copy of the
> internal employee newspaper 'LEGO Life'. In it was an article about a new
> CAD system being introduced to create instruction diagrams, called 3D
> Vision.
> 
> This year all the instructions have been produced using this software, by
> the looks of things, because the main visible difference is the shading and
> top-left light source that 'illuminates' the models and thus creates
> different shades on each face of the bricks. (excuse my non-technical CAD
> terms, I am no expert)
> 
> Now, I don't know if it's just me, but it seems to be a retrograde step. On
> several occasions I have had difficulty telling the difference between white
> and light grey and  between black and dark grey.

It's not just you it's impacted me, at least. I consider it a retrograde
step too, it tripped me up confusing white and grey.

Milton Train Works(tm) instructions will not use shading in the foreseeable
future, I don't think...



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  Inferior colour rendering in this year's instructions
 
While at LEGOLAND Windsor last year on 'business' I picked up a copy of the internal employee newspaper 'LEGO Life'. In it was an article about a new CAD system being introduced to create instruction diagrams, called 3D Vision. This year all the (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)

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