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Re: Interesting question...
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Thu, 13 Nov 2003 12:18:12 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Miguel Agullo wrote:
> I am aware of the legal / technical issues involved. But let me point to the
> bright pink elephant sitting in the middle of the room which goes by the name of
> POVray. If you use an infinite plane for a floor in POVray, are you not using a
> non-Lego part? How is that different from, say, creating a POVray city using
> this app:
> 
> http://www.geocities.com/ccolefax
> 
> and adding your Ldraw MOC to it? Where does the difference between a simple
> plane and bunch of more complex structures lie?

Although I am not a 100% lego purist, I see nothing wrong in using a
'background' in Povray. Real builders build their models on non-lego tables,
non-lego floors in non-lego houses and probably photograph them in non-lego
gardens. The same if you Povray your LDraw model with a digital non-lego
background.

Niels



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  Re: Interesting question...
 
Hi all, My two cents: This has come up before in several forms. Here are two recent ones. (URL) it comes to building, I'm a purist: not Lego = no way. But when it comes to Ldraw, I do a 180 on that. I can understand why Ldraw.org is currently 100% (...) (23 years ago, 12-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)

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