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Re: Follow-up: What *IS* a building instruction anyway?
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Fri, 2 Aug 2002 06:21:31 GMT
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In lugnet.inst, Kerry Raymond writes:
> Yet another 10c from me ...
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> A lot of the time I don't think we really need detailed building
> instructions. For many models, a few good photos from all angles of the
> finished product and a few detailed photos of "tricky bits" and "significant
> subassemblies" will suffice. Take this building for example:
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=16177
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> Just using the photos, I think I could come up with something pretty
> similar. I don't need to be told how to stack one brick on top of another
> to make the columns. The only thing that isn't immediately obvious to me is
> how the diagonals connecting the corner columns to the main building are
> done. But a close up photo would probably explain it. Maybe a bit of text
> along the lines of "Note there is a layer of plates at each point where the
> building is cantilevered" to explain something that's hard to see in the
> photos.
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> Similarly look at the Moonbase project:
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> http://www.classic-space.com/moonbase01.html
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> and read about the moonbase connecting corridor. There's a couple of
> pictures and some text, but it's sufficient instructions I think for most of
> us to go away and build a moonbase connecting corridor.
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> Obviously some things like Technics etc have complex internal mechanisms
> which may need more detailed explanation, but do we need a brick-by-brick
> approach to all instructions? I think not.
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> The purpose of instructions is to communicate. If the recipient can
> understand them, then that purpose is achieved.
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> Kerry
Your assumptions of the audience and what is a BI are different than mine.
As I stated before, I want to make sure that the user of my BIs duplicated
MY MODEL 100% the same way I did mine. Otherwise, s/he is NOT building MY
MODEL but a variation of it. 2nd, I'm 26 years old but "act and think" like
a 5 year old when I play with legos. So when I make BIs or talk about legos
I ALWAYS ASSUME THAT KIDS NOT ADULTS WILL USE, SEE, and Play with it.
Adults don't need BIs. You guys (i'm not included in this group) are too
couchy, too demanding, never satisified with whatever lego does for you, so
I don't bother trying to please the adult market. LEGO is a toy, this toy
is played by kids, so my BIs are FOR KIDS!
I don't mean to sound anti-adult but the truth is it's the kids my site and
projects are geared towards. Thus my thinking on BIs is for kids.
-AHui
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| Yet another 10c from me ... A lot of the time I don't think we really need detailed building instructions. For many models, a few good photos from all angles of the finished product and a few detailed photos of "tricky bits" and "significant (...) (22 years ago, 31-Jul-02, to lugnet.inst)
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