just to let you know, l just noticed this Eurobricks official LEGO sets LDRAW contest:
http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.ph...opic=77949

A quick reference to the candidates for the 2013/2014 LDraw.org Steering Committee (SteerCo) election. The information is drawn from the nomination process and corrections are welcome, please email the webmasters.

Candidates are listed in alphabetical order by last name and no ranking or endorsement should be inferred from their position on the list. The following table summarizes the status of each candidate in the format:
Nominee name : Nomination Status (Nominator, Second)

Chris Dee : Accepted (Michael Heidemann, Philippe Hurbain)
Michael Heidemann : Accepted (Philippe Hurbain, Travis Cobbs)
Orion Pobursky : Accepted (Michael Heidemann, Philippe Hurbain)
Max Martin Richter : Accepted (Michael Heidemann, Philippe Hurbain)
Willy Tschager : Accepted (Orion Pobursky, Michael Heidemann)

Magnus Forsberg : Declined (Michael Heidemann, Philippe Hurbain)
Tim Gould : Declined (Orion Pobursky, Michael Heidemann)
Steffen Lohse : Declined (Philippe Hurbain, Michael Heidemann)
Scott Wardlaw : Declined (Orion Pobursky, Philippe Hurbain)

Replies to this have been disabled. The nominations thread is where they belong.

Anyone up for creating a minifig head and torso?

http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=3626cpb704

http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=973pb1003

Thanks in advance!

I'm looking for some huge (jet serious / realworld) LDraw models. I'm talking 10.000+ pcs in MPD format.

Does anyone know of good websites offering LDraw files of such mocs ? Or maybe you got some of your own.

I just wanted to go to www.ldraw.org, but I got only a static page without layout !? Is the cms down?

After long time of coding I have now finished the next version of MPDCenter.
As there are not only new functions, but also a lot of bug fixing, please update your version soon.

You can download from MPDCenter webside as usual.

My special thanks to Willy and Philo for taking time to do some testing.

Any comments and/or wishes please place here as answer to this thread. Thanks!

Have fun!

Michael

PS: I just added a sample file for the new possibilities

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edit: sorry.. this should be a response message to this topic.
Happy New Year!

I played a little bit with MLCad and found the following. Maybe it is also interesting for some else.

hey all,

now that I have a working JavaScript .dat to .obj converter for using LEGO parts in a WebGL context, I was wondering whether anyone had already tried implementing a complexity reduction algorithm for parts meshes.

At several thousand vertices per part, some of these parts might be better rendered as reduced meshes with some bump/texture mapping that fakes some of the more intricate details (like teeth on cogs, or profile on an axle joiner), not to mention help load larger models, as WebGL only allows ~65k vertices per scene.

Has anyone experimented with this yet?

- Mike

Per the LDraw.org Bylaws at http://www.ldraw.org/article/268.html, Subsection
6.03(a), the 2012/2013 Steering Committee hereby calls for the community to
nominate individuals as candidates for the 2013/2014 Steering Committee[1].

Please post nominations in response to this message. Nominations will only be
recognized if they are in response to this message.

Per ss.6.03(a), you must specify the name of the person you are nominating,
along with your name. Another member of the community must second the nomination
in a reply, and the nominee must publicly accept the nomination in the same
channel (direct reply to the nomination or second) in order to be valid. If the
nominee does not accept, it will be assumed that he or she has declined, and
they will not be placed on the ballot.

Nominations will close at 11:59 PM GMT on 28 February 2013. This means that to
be listed on the ballot, a candidate must have been nominated, seconded and must
have formally stated acceptance by that time.

The Steering Committee will give sufficient notice of the election and election
procedures per ss.6.03(b).

NOTE: subsection 6.03(b) states that elections should take place before March 1.
We interpret this to mean that we will commence the election on March 1, but
since it is electronic, it will run for 2 weeks, just as last time. The exact
time and date of start and end will be announced sometime very close to (but
after) 0000 GMT March 1.

Again, thanks to all of you for your commitment to the goals of the
organization, and in working with us this year. Please, stay involved with
LDraw.org and keep it moving forward!

Willy Tschager
On behalf of the LDraw.org Steering Committee

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[1] Try not to confuse the LDraw.org Steering Committee (SteerCo) with the LDraw
Standards Committee (LSC). The Steering Committee sets the course for the LDraw
Organization while the Standards Committee deals with the LDraw File Format.