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Re: New 9V Digital Trains for Germany this Autumn
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Fri, 31 Mar 2000 18:28:54 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Will Hess writes:
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> 7) Take a very close look at the rails on the half and quarter track
> sections. You can clearly see the spots where they were cut and
> reassembled.
I am not an expert on either trains or any of this other stuff, but it looks
to me that the spots that look like cuts may be "jaggies" introduced by a
scanner. I have seen similar effects produced on my own (cheap) scanner
rather frequently. My argument is that the "cuts" appear to be exactly
horizontal to the scanned image, and not across the track itself.
-Andy Lynch
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| (...) looks (...) I just blew these up in my image editor and can say with certainty that the three most obvious cuts are: 1) perpendicular (sp?) to the rail, and 2) in the exact same place for all three track parts!! Will (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: New 9V Digital Trains for Germany this Autumn
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| (...) True - magnify the image, and you see that the jaggies are only across ONE side of the track, and even the shadow is shifted a bit. I could do a better job of "shortening" track in PSP if I really felt the need to. In fact, if someone will (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New 9V Digital Trains for Germany this Autumn
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| I'm afraid that I must go with the hoax theory. Here's why: 1) This appears to be Paul Rutenberg's first ever Lugnet post, and he has a hotmail address to boot. 2) His homepage (once translated with babelfish) is decidedly non-Lego. There are some (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains) !
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