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Subject:	Re: LDraw and the Track Designer (Was: Next show)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dev
Date:	Tue, 16 Feb 1999 17:31:08 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek writes: > Yep, that was EXACTLY what I was thinking of. The convertor should > create the needed views (all the rotations), and if it can handle the > scaling too, so much the better. Just scaling bitmaps down in an image > editor gives weird artifacts if you're already using magenta for your > background color. Track Designer can already automatically rotate [1] and scale any new bitmap that you give it. I'm not sure why you would want to do this in an image editor? What are the weird artifacts that you are referring to when using magenta as the background color? Matt [1] Currently it only supports rotations in 90 degree increments.

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		Re: LDraw and the Track Designer (Was: Next show)
(...) But rotations in 22.5 degree increments would be better, of course, and 11.25 might even be best, as we are then at the resolution of a curve segment, no? Since that requires rather complex calculations, it's more natural to have a rendering (...) (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dev)

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		Re: LDraw and the Track Designer (Was: Next show)
Yep, that was EXACTLY what I was thinking of. The convertor should create the needed views (all the rotations), and if it can handle the scaling too, so much the better. Just scaling bitmaps down in an image editor gives weird artifacts if you're (...) (26 years ago, 16-Feb-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dev)

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