Posted on Saturday, June 16, 2007:
The body is off the frame!
Today I successfully separated the body from the frame of my hot rod. This grants easy access to the undercarriage, which can now be reinforced and fiddled with at will. This is going to be fun. A bare frame is like a blank sheet of paper: behold the potential!
Check out the rest of the gallery for more photos and details on the barnyard engineering that made this possible.
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Posted on Thursday, June 14, 2007:
Hot Rod Taillights
These nifty tinted taillights were among the many odds and ends that came with my car. I think they look pretty mean:
The body is slated to come off the frame sometime in the next couple days. Once that’s done, things will start happening. Stay tuned for more updates.
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Miscellaneous Mac LDraw Machinations
Macintosh universal binary versions of Philo’s Isecalc and Linetrim utilities for LDraw part authors are now readily available, courtesy of yours truly. I’ve also made an online version of Isecalc, similar to txt2dat online.
Arriving here at anoved.net in search of Mac LDraw stuff? Allow me to direct you to the inventory of Macintosh compatible LDraw software! Contributions, comments, and corrections welcome.
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Posted on Sunday, June 3, 2007:
Posterizer
Last month I introduced Posterizer, a simple little program that reduces images to a handful of key colors you select. Rather than postpone it indefinitely until I’m completely satisfied with it, I’ve decided to release what I’ve got so far.
Download Posterizer Test Release (Mac OS X Universal Binary, 2.9MB)
The documentation on packaging a Tcl/Tk script as this kind of stand-alone application bundle is sparse, so the remaining rough edges stem from this experimental integration.
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Posted on Saturday, June 2, 2007:
Isecalc
Isecalc is a new LDraw utility by Philippe Hurbain. It computes the intersection of two parts (useful for part authors).
Happily, it is Mac compatible. I built Isecalc with the following command:
g++ Isecalc.cpp -arch i386 -arch ppc -o IsecalcThe -arch options are only needed to produce a universal binary.
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