 | | Re: What's in a part name? (WAS: 4679 Fall Spring Cleaning Bonus) —Steve Bliss
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| | | (...) Interesting. To me, 'bevel' would apply to slope bricks more than wedge/skew bricks. Actually, it seems like a very good term for slope bricks. Hmm, excuse me, I need to go update some LDraw part names... ;) (...) I'm always up for part-name (...) (19 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.parts, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: What's in a part name? (WAS: 4679 Fall Spring Cleaning Bonus) —Allan Bedford
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| | | | (...) I found those elements to be difficult to label. I'm not sure 'bevel' is perfect, but then neither is wedge. ;) Had I known about 'skew' I just might have tried to resurrect that term. I quite like it. (...) I think slope bricks are actually (...) (19 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.parts, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: What's in a part name? (WAS: 4679 Fall Spring Cleaning Bonus) —Steve Bliss
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| | | | (...) Yes, exactly. (...) I wasn't seriously suggesting we try to rename slopes. But bevel would be so much more ... taxonimetrical. (...) We shoulda just stuck with "Roof tile" -- to be extra confusing. (...) Ooo. Good guess. But it was actually (...) (19 years ago, 16-Sep-05, to lugnet.parts, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: What's in a part name? (WAS: 4679 Fall Spring Cleaning Bonus) —Allan Bedford
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| | | | (...) You don't think it's a good idea to rename slopes? ;) But I agree with you, it's not a bad alternate name for them. In the Brickopedia I tried to find a balance between taxonomically correct labels and groupings/names that made sense from a (...) (19 years ago, 17-Sep-05, to lugnet.parts, FTX)
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