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Re: The Blacktron Arrow
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space, lugnet.cad
Date: 
Fri, 28 Dec 2001 20:46:03 GMT
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In lugnet.build.contests, Kevin Dixon writes:
Hi all,

Here is my entry for the blacktron I space contest:

http://brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=9419 • <SNIP>
I have to say that working with MLCAD and Povray has been a joy.  I used
l3p to convert the dat files to povray files.  The tools are fairly
straight forward, and with a little work you can get some impressive
results.  Kudos to the Ldraw/MLCAD team!  I soon hope to be rendering
some more complex scenes as a Scene of the Month entry on the ldraw.org
page.

S'Cool. Having done my entry in MLCAD/POVRay as well, I gotta ask:  "How'd you
do the hoses?"  I was gonna add some (it doesn't seem completely BT1 w/o
yellow hoses), but trying to build the things segment by segment caused much
blurriness of vision.



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  Re: The Blacktron Arrow
 
Hi John, (...) Yes, the hoses are pretty cool I thought. I used a spreadsheet that I got from this webpage: (URL) not exactly sure whose web page it is, but the spreadsheet on it works well. Basically it uses a bezier curve function to calculate (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-01, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space, lugnet.cad)

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  The Blacktron Arrow
 
Hi all, Here is my entry for the blacktron I space contest: (URL) haven't posted much in .space before, and I don't own any blacktron I sets. For our local Parlugment meeting we had to build some sort of space MOC - so I decided to modify it (...) (23 years ago, 28-Dec-01, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space, lugnet.cad)

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