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Re: Minifigure Torso Generator
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Date: 
Sun, 17 Oct 1999 11:14:30 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Noel E. Serrano writes:
I have develped a program that can generate Minifigure torsos based on a BMP
of the torso. I have posted to of my torsos in the lugnet.cad.dat.parts, I
will appreciate feedbak. I also was wondering what do i have to do to submit
these part to the L-CAD official release of parts. I have made the old police
torso, firemen, space, Octan and i am working on the X-Wing driver torso.
Regards
   Noel
This looks a pretty good way of doing the more complex torsos quickly (I assume
it is quicker than the manual method), although I have got pretty quick at
doing primitive-based versions, once I have drawn them up on graph paper. I
have definitely avoided the more recent space patterns: UFO, Insectoids, etc as
having too much fine detail to do easily in primitives - so this might be a
good test of your program. However, I do see a lot of horizontal "scan lines"
when viewing your torsos obliquely at x6 in LDLite, and some "noise" around the
smaller parts of the pattern, so I still think primitive-based versions will
give the best quality, overall ..... but they take time to generate.

Just a note that a primitive-based version of the fireman pattern is already in
the current voting
(http://www.ldraw.org/memorial/archive/voting/vote9906.html), so if you are
planning on doing others please make use of the parts tracker
(http://www3.hmc.edu/~zbenz/parttracker/partlist.shtml), or at least let me
know as I have quite a few already drawn out ready to code up.

Also with a little work on your code to remove the trailing decimal zeroes, you
should get a reduction in file size (eg. "0.00" can be reduced to "0" saving 3
bytes).

Voting submission procedure is in the LDraw FAQ
(http://www.ldraw.org/faq/#question-24).

Keep up the good work and long live LDraw,

Chris Dee
(chris_w_dee@hotmail.com)



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  Minifigure Torso Generator
 
Hi , at 17.10.99 Chris Dee wrote in a mail: CD> tracker ((URL) or CD> at least let me know as I have quite a few already drawn out ready CD> to code up. I did a few torsos, too. The old doctor, doctor with stetoscope and castle pattern with crossed (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
  Re: Minifigure Torso Generator
 
Chris: Thanks for the info. During this week if i have time i should be working with the Xwing mechanic torso and a few others from older sets. I would soon post all the models on a web page so ppl can d/l them. What do i have to do to submit parts (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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I have develped a program that can generate Minifigure torsos based on a BMP of the torso. I have posted to of my torsos in the lugnet.cad.dat.parts, I will appreciate feedbak. I also was wondering what do i have to do to submit these part to the (...) (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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