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| | | (...) Yes, in many different user selectable ways. (...) Yes, and even better you will be able to assign any icon in your collection to be the icon for any folder in your collection. I might allow that for the user icon otherwise there will be a (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | Re: Announcing Brickshelf.com Gallery for everyone! —Ben Roller
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| | | | | (...) I like this idea. I prefer a large assortment of minifigs for each user to select on the main page, but having our own icons for the folders would be cool. I imagine someone like Larry having a GMLTC folder with their logo as the link to the (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | Re: Announcing Brickshelf.com Gallery for everyone! —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) Depends on the size of the images and the number of images per page. The neat thing is, with modern browsers and servers, a whole bunch of small images totalling, say, 100KB can be transferred in roughly the same time as one big 100KB image. (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Announcing Brickshelf.com Gallery for everyone! —Kevin Loch
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| | | | | | (...) Wow! Would it be possible to generate all of those with a height of 128 pixels (total, including space above and below fig.)? Those would look *much* better than my lousy scans (and I could add that feature *much* faster) :) KL (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Announcing Brickshelf.com Gallery for everyone! —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) Technically speaking, it's possible to generate them at a variety of small sizes -- it's basically just some pipefitting and scripting with pnmtools. But then again it was just a little experiment page -- something from the back burner at (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Announcing Brickshelf.com Gallery for everyone! —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | | (...) On a much lighter note, I really liked how the page loaded. I am guessing that the order in which the images appeared on the page was not caused by anything other than load times, but it was cool to watch gaps appear in the lines of minifigs (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | Re: Announcing Brickshelf.com Gallery for everyone! —Alan Gerber
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| | | | | (...) from. Could you make a minifig generator-like device to make our own figs? Alan This message's random set is: 8523, www.lugnet.com/pause...query=8523 (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | Re: Announcing Brickshelf.com Gallery for everyone! —Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) Do you think this is safe (from a legal standpoint)? LEGO has already done this for members at the LEGO MINDSTORMS website. We had planned to do this for LUGNET members, but then LEGO went and put their own minifig generator to use: (4 URLs) (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | Re: Announcing Brickshelf.com Gallery for everyone! —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | (...) Lemme see if I get what you're saying. You guys thought of something first, have clearly established prior art, and when TLC comes out with the same idea, significantly after you do, you decide to not do it any more because they might think (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | Re: Announcing Brickshelf.com Gallery for everyone! —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) No, sorry, I forgot the other related concerns... What's above is probably only about 30-50% of it. One other thing was that it suddenly seemed a lot less unique and special after TLC went and did it, and we had always kinda wanted stuff on (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | Re: Announcing Brickshelf.com Gallery for everyone! —Suzanne D. Rich
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| | | | (...) I see that my being unable to work has had some more consequences. I can't say I'm unaffected by this conversation. Being discharged from hospital only yesterday, and now leaving for ToyFair on Sunday, there won't be much I can say here or do. (...) (25 years ago, 12-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | Re: Announcing Brickshelf.com Gallery for everyone! —Kevin Loch
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| | | | (...) I knew there would be some interesting issues around the whole minifig thing. To be clear I *did* get the idea from Suzanne's minifig generator, not the Mindstorms site. However.... I never planned to have an interactive generator, rather just (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | Re: Announcing Brickshelf.com Gallery for everyone! —Suzanne D. Rich
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| | | | (...) I would like to know exactly what you expected. Particularly, how I would feel (as you are replying to my message here). I only posted to this thread because "the whole minifig thing" is quite personal to me. (...) To be clear, where you took (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | Re: Announcing Brickshelf.com Gallery for everyone! —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | Heavily snipped (...) broke out for emphasis (...) I suspect Kev might, IF you gave permission. I doubt he'd do it without your permission. He doesn't operate that way. (...) broke out for emphasis (...) broke out for emphasis (...) I'm not sure I (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | Re: Announcing Brickshelf.com Gallery for everyone! —Bram Lambrecht
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| | | | | | | (...) I'm getting mentioned quite a lot today :) For anyone interested, the name is bastardized Latin (using a dictionary, I don't speak Latin) Five- wing- nifty suffix Penta- pteri- goid I _have_ built the model and its cradle, which actually holds (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Announcing Brickshelf.com Gallery for everyone! —Alan Gerber
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| | | | | | | | Bram said: (...) The Zero. Alan This message's random set is: 6505, (URL) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | Re: Announcing Brickshelf.com Gallery for everyone! —Kevin Loch
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| | | | | | (...) ditto. (...) I don't see it that way, although I can understand why some would. I am not a big fan of duplicating other peoples efforts. That's why I never made a set database, because a great one already existed. I was unaware that image (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Announcing Brickshelf.com Gallery for everyone! —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | (...) I'd say if anything it's in the really really long-term plan -- someday when bandwidth grows on trees. Image hosting was the very first thing Suzanne and I talked about doing back in the summer of '96 but as soon as it became clear that places (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | Re: Announcing Brickshelf.com Gallery for everyone! —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | (...) I read that as "if Todd (assuming Todd has your permission to do so) let me use them" I would use them. Or, more broadly, "since this is something people are already asking for, and since I've already put a ton of work into putting together (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | Re: Announcing Brickshelf.com Gallery for everyone! —Kevin Loch
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| | | | (...) Since I had no intentions of using a "minifig generator", I diddn't think you would be affected at all. I did expect some discussion about the IP issues with TLC. (...) ok. (...) Absolutely not! I never said that! In fact what I said is that I (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | | | | | Re: Announcing Brickshelf.com Gallery for everyone! —Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) I think she misunderstood what you meant. She'd been up most of the night packing for a 6:45 a.m. train and had logged in quick just to check mail, etc. and probably wasn't expecting to encounter anything out of the ordinary. Probably read the (...) (25 years ago, 13-Feb-00, to lugnet.publish)
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