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Re: LDraw and the Track Designer (Was: Next show)
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lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.dev
Date: 
Wed, 17 Feb 1999 15:41:25 GMT
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:

As to scaling, what I found when I used it was that I got better looking
images by downscaling in a bitmap editor and then touching it up. But
what happened would be that I would get some blending with magenta at
the edges of holes in the image, which I would then correct by hand.

I forgot to say that Magenta was the color I picked to be the
"transparent" color because I did not use any magenta or anything
remotely close to Magenta, in my bitmap image.

This may well be a "MS Paint" thing, I forget where I was working at the
time

++Lar



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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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