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Subject: 
RE: Constructopedia and Lego Patterns
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Wed, 9 Jun 1999 19:07:35 GMT
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Stalker-Wilde, Graham <graham.stalker-wilde@csfb.comSPAMLESS>
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Excellent, looking forward to the searchable, browseable version. I guess my
remaining questions are:

firstly - is this really LDraw  specific? LDraw is great, but Fred's
photographs were also helpful - I wouldn't like someone not to submit an
idea because all they had was a picture. Insisting on LDraw is likely to
reduce the numbers of both contributors and viewers.

second - what about these "other factors". I seriously suggest looking at a
pattern-like organization here. Organization by part is not, for design
creation, always the point. I don't think, "How can I use this gear" I
think, "How can I make this happen" (Patterns are about reusing tested
solutions to difficult problems, pattern writing is itself a tested solution
to this very type of organizational problem.)

Anyone have news on the Constructopedia? The WikiWiki approach is an
interesting take on a similar problem.
(http://c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki?WikiWikiClones
<http://c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki?WikiWikiClones>  )

-g

-----Original Message-----
From: lehman@javanet.com [SMTP:lehman@javanet.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 2:04 PM
To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com
Subject: Re: Constructopedia and Lego Patterns

In lugnet.robotics, Graham Stalker-Wilde
<graham.stalker-wilde@csfb.com>
writes:
> [...]
> Is there currently a mechanism whereby people can submit Lego
design
> patterns (and browse those submitted)? I don't mean completed
designs,
> though these are useful too, but design components, a vocabulary
of Lego
> design we can each use in our constructions.

Yes, there is:  The lugnet.cad.dat.ideas group collects LEGO design
components in LDraw format.  The group is archived and browseable
here:

   http://www.lugnet.com/news/display.cgi?lugnet.cad.dat.ideas

Later in the year, all of the postings will be organized by topic
and
interlinked with DBs, searchable & browseable by element and other
factors.

<snip>
--
Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics



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