 | | Train sets 10013, 10014 Ships August 3rd
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The trains sets are now available for backorder for shipment on August 3rd. Perhaps this is the August surprise. (23 years ago, 28-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | APT yellow-red 73degree slope stripe SNOT construction (was Re: APT tilts thru curves in Real-Build)
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(...) Sam (and interested others): Here is the method I employed to flip the red 73 degree slope studs-down to interface agains the studs-up yellow 73 degree slope. (URL) used a similar construction in the 17xx Dutch locomotive to flip the front (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: RGB color values for many brick colors
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The original Pantone pallette I used had CMYK values, I translated them via Photoshop for your convience. I assumed in web development (like the colors use on the BricWorx color selector) and most non-print graphic design are done in RGB. SteveB (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.trains, lugnet.faq, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: RGB color values for many brick colors
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(...) HSL and HSV are both valid models, IIRC I think they are close but not the same. I forget the difference. I think Luminance (and the entire RGB model too) is more useful or applicable for things that do color by giving off light, like monitors (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.trains, lugnet.faq, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: RGB color values for many brick colors
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(...) CMYK is Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black (subtractive color model vs RGB additive color model). CMY gives you a muddled gray/brown so K is added for pure black. Go to (URL) then option 2b, Color Theory for a nice presentation on the topic. I (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.trains, lugnet.faq, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: RGB color values for many brick colors
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(...) I'm assuming "CMYK" translates to something along the lines of Blue,Red,Yellow,Black? Or more appropriately "Cyan","Magenta","Yellow",K? (what the heck would K be?) If you had the CMYK values, could these be mathematically translated into (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.trains, lugnet.faq, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: RGB color values for many brick colors
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(...) ought to do that sampling on their own?? I was at an ink manufacturer recently and they can take colors in either RGB or CMYK but prefer the latter. (they also have spectrophotometers that you can just put things under and get ink recipes from (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.trains, lugnet.faq, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: is Octan a real brand?
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(...) <snip> (...) I usually do! *I'd* just assumed that TLC had had a falling out with Shell and decided to go with a fictitious company instead-- less legal hassles;-) If Octan were real, I'd have thought that they would have been a little more (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: RGB color values for many brick colors
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In lugnet.trains, Steven Barile writes: Steve Barile's colors (...) colors I've seen (try lugnet.cad), not counting Suzanne Rich's (which might be the same as Mosaic Maker is producing). It's naive to think there is "one true RGB" color. It's (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: RGB color values for many brick colors
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Here's a different type, one for print colors (CMYK). To read those color values, use something like Photoshop to sample inside framed boxes. some of these may be considered official, as well as the naming scheme. (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.trains, lugnet.faq, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Octan Fuel Storage Tanks - Fueling Train Car Question
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Larry and all, (...) Right, well, I might have to build two separate fuel racks, because of the layout. It should nto be too hard, I can use those newer tubes from various sets with the TECHNIC peg attachments. One for the top, one for the bottom. I (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: RGB color values for many brick colors
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(...) Silly me, he TOLD us how he got the RGB values... I'll just modify the question and ask "I wonder how Mosaic Maker got its RGB values?" DaveE (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: RGB color values for many brick colors
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(...) Red: 204,0,0 Blue: 0,51,153 Yellow: 251,228,25 (these were the only ones I checked since they're in Hex on the Mosaic form and I'm lazy) The mosaic form has Hex colors (in the order they appear in the table): #CC0000 #FF6666 #FFDEDC #5C2000 (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: RGB color values for many brick colors
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Excellent! I'm sure many people would be interested in it. Like Larry said - turn it into a Lugnet web page and add it to a Lugnet FAQ. Bryan "sebarile-MOBL" <steve.e.barile@intel.com> wrote in message news:GFLKDs.C7K@lugnet.com... (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Octan Fuel Storage Tanks - Fueling Train Car Question
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"Scott Sanburn" <ssanburn@indalex.com> wrote in message news:GFLJqz.ABI@lugnet.com... (...) out (...) I take it there has not been a date or time frame mentioned for the new train cars? Bryan (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: RGB color values for many brick colors
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(...) Tres useful! Ought to be widely crossposted! (seems like FAQ material, almost) ++Lar (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.publish, lugnet.faq, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Octan Fuel Storage Tanks - Fueling Train Car Question
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(...) Like Rob said there is a small platform called a "fuel rack"... it has underplatform flexible pipes that connect to tank car bottom drains and it has pipes mounted on arms (small cranes, sort of) that can bring fuel to the expansion dome fill (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| | RGB color values for many brick colors
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Just found this chart I did a while back and thought I'd post it for everyone's enjoyment :) I tried to get the RGB color values for many brick colors using a huge paper version Pantone pallette. Here are the results. (URL) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.trains) !
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| | Re: is Octan a real brand?
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Even with post verification I accidentally left out that I tried a google search and couldn't come up with any Octan company, other than our Lego one (hence the link)! Maybe there is a small Portugese one, but it doesn't get a mention online. Kevin (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: is Octan a real brand?
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(...) do I? James (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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