 | | Question for Jason Mantor, also Re: Jeff Szklennik's T'Kunce Drive IRL
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(...) here's my original MLcad file, & some variations; all pics can be seen thru original post Ley referenced-thanks Ley!): original with spamcake power: (URL) a 2D variant for smaller ships/areas: (URL) & one with inward pointing nozzles that (...) (22 years ago, 7-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Jeff Szklennik's T'Kunce Drive IRL
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(...) Fifteen minutes too late but thanks anyway. :) With a bit of work (more precise light placement, faster speed, larger spheres), this could actually look pretty good: (URL) 512kb/sec, 88.5KB. Looks kinda cool in looping mode. -Mike (22 years ago, 7-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | The NPX-3801. A P-38 Lightning Space Contest entry and introduction.
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Hello everybody, My name is Dirk van Zuilen and I have been lurking for well over a year now. Mr. Palmer's contest seemed like a nice way to finally introduce myself. I'm 31 years old and have been collecting since the age of 6. In that time I've (...) (22 years ago, 7-Mar-04, to lugnet.space) !
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| | Re: Jeff Szklennik's T'Kunce Drive IRL
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(...) I didn't come up with the idea but here's a file I made of the the T'Kunce Drive -Orion -- 0 T'Kunce Drive 0 Name: TKunceDrive.ldr 0 Author: Orion Pobursky 0 Author: Jeff Szklennik 0 Unofficial Model 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 4733.DAT 1 0 (...) (22 years ago, 7-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.cad.dat.models, FTX)
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| | Re: Jeff Szklennik's T'Kunce Drive IRL
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(...) Hi Mike Ditto the reflective and transparent elements, but that's why I just had to build these for real. MLCAD? Me? noooo. You'd better check out the (URL) blueprints> link and follow that thread. Those guys may have what you seek. Best of (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Jeff Szklennik's T'Kunce Drive IRL
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(...) Cool stuff. If there is anything about LEGO that is guaranteed to catch my fancy, it's either reflective or transparent elements. Bingo. Can you give me the MLCAD file for one of these? I have an idea for raytracing a smooth version of those (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Jeff Szklennik's T'Kunce Drive IRL
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Hi all, As (URL) promised>, we are pleased to anounce the completion of our T'Kunce drives from Jeff Szklennik's (URL) blueprints>. We expect them to be most useful around the lab as well as for space vehicles. (2 URLs) A couple of slightly (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: The Fly
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(...) Ah, Mr Goldman, we meet again. Alas, the 'Baby-Blue Peace Ray' does not produce the level of death and destruction to which you've become accustomed; it only produces a peaceful, easy feeling.(1) Of course, if it got into the wrong hands... (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: MoonBikes
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(...) I made a few more. They're still mostly the same design though. The orange one is different enough to say it's from a different manufacturer, however. I guess the original yellow one could be as well. (URL) Click the pic for the individual (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Sci Fi Novels --> movies
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(...) Actually, age seems to have little to do with it these days... Robert Rodriguez Directing Princess of Mars Source: The Hollywood Reporter Monday, March 1, 2004 Robert Rodriguez ("Spy Kids" series) is set to direct Edgar Rice Burroughs' science (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: New MOC: Orbital Manipulator Craft
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(...) Yeah, I s'pose you're right. Most of the time, though, that's what people do, slather tiles over a design until you've ruined the shape for the sake of studlessness. Now I will be sleeping, I have class tomorrow. Soren (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Using a lot of tiles is, in my view, sort of a cheat. True Studly-lessness is achieved because you're so SNOTed that there's no real top that needs tiling. For example the current (URL) MOC highlight...> (which bears raving about, it's tres (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) Dare I answer? (...) Studlessness is overrated, all it really says is that you've got the cash for hundreds of tiles. Studs actually help break up the hard lines where plates overlap, smoothing out the shapes. Try it sometime, it's (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Sci Fi Novels --> movies
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(...) I think you may have heard wrong. I first read Destination a long long time ago. I read CoMC about the same time and I've reread both of them several times since, and in my considered judgement, they're not at all alike. Not even close. Sure, (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
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I don't know Ley, the thing on the nose looks suspiciously like a death ray. Coming from a Space Hippy like youreslf, this smacks of a military-industrial complex sell-out of some kind. Workin' for the Man now, eh Ley? Although I do like the fact (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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The question remains...can it manipulate itself?...not for pleasure I mean, just for self-maintenance. Soren the OMC is money, if fact you're money baby. Its almost studless, but the remaining studs actually work as a greeble I think. Great (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Sci Fi Novels --> movies
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(...) (Ahem..) Alfred Bester's job was writing and editing Detective Comics through the 1940s. Batman worked for him. However, what I meant was, the movie version of Batman and Joker leap out of the pages of Bester's Tiger, Tiger. The momentum of (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Sci Fi Novels --> movies
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(...) That would be a bit difficult, since his story wasn't published until 1956, 17 years after Batman first graced the cover of Detective Comics #32, and 16 years after the Joker was introduced in Batman #1. Ironically enough, the first Joker (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Sci Fi Novels --> movies
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(...) (snip lots of good reasons why the book is indeed, a top 10 on many lists, and why thiis movie would rock!) All I can figure is that it's too obscure... that or there is a fair bit of introspection on the part of Foyle (his motivation for (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Sci Fi Novels --> movies
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A novel which has, inexplicably, never been filmed, is Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination. This is surely one of the top ten greatest Sf novels ever. It was written by a veteran radio and TV writer as an intensely paced male action hero (...) (22 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general, FTX)
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