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Subject:	Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general
Date:	Wed, 7 Jul 1999 00:45:07 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Robert Munafo writes: > It would be bad to put each image on a seperate web page. Correction: it would be bad to put each image *only* on a separate web page. Right? It really needs both (or multiple) types of displays. Here are a couple of crude, semi-working examples... * One piece: http://www.lugnet.com/ldraw/parts/?c=7&n=3004 * A bunch of pieces in a numeric range: http://www.lugnet.com/ldraw/parts/?c=7&n1=3000&n2=3009 * A bazillion pieces: http://www.lugnet.com/ldraw/parts/?c=7&n1=0&n2=99999 > Right now I depend on > printed parts catalogs, and having all the images on one page allows me > to print them out quickly. If the parts were each on their own page it > would make the site almost useless as a catalog. Not at all. In fact, if none of the images were ever on their own page, then that would also make the resource almost useless. People often want to be able to point to a single image of a piece when they're talking about it. There really needs to be multiple types of displays. > Even if you aren't printing, think how much work it would be to > click-click-click through all the images on the site. The single-element-on-a-page view is best for when someone points you there to a specific piece. A catalog view should show lots of pieces on a single page, with varying ways to collate them. > Of course, I'm not opposed to adding additional pages so that people can > access the data in different ways. Just make sure you don't eliminate the > format we have now. Ahh, I should've read this first before writing the above... :) --Todd

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		Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention?
Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) problem... in the above database, part 3002 is a 2x3 brick, part 3002PEYE is a 2x2 brick with printing of an eye). Frank (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general)

		Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention?
(...) Would the plan be to include images for each part in each known colour? For the decorated parts, at least, I would prefer that the image uses a real life background colour rather than the default grey. As a reference for parts sales, etc it (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general)

		Secret LUGNET areas, ldraw image databases, (was piece naming conventions)
Gee, thanks Todd -- I didn't even know about (URL) there is no link to it from the LUGNET home page! How many other secret LUGNET pages are there? Concerning the parts image database it looks like we agree, and a good start would be to combine the (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general)

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		Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention?
(...) It would be bad to put each image on a seperate web page. Right now I depend on printed parts catalogs, and having all the images on one page allows me to print them out quickly. If the parts were each on their own page it would make the site (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.general)

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