I'm currently doing research in distributed raytracing on HPC clusters using a self-modified version of pov-ray inspired by (but not at all derived from) the now dead MPI-POV. There's certainly no shortage of computationally intensive things to do in POV-Ray, but I was wondering if any of you had anything giant you wanted rendered.

Datsville, the largest ldraw model I am aware of, took just over 3 seconds to render (not counting parsing time, and there was no photon mapping to be done) at full quality (l3p -q4) at my native background resolution (1440x900), and it's pretty borring to shave milliseconds instead of hours off render time, especially when the bulk of the time was spent parsing the scene (60 something seconds).

If nobody has anything, I'm probably going to end up sticking to non-LDraw-origin scenes, as much more can be done with pov-ray than what the various ldraw->povray exporters are capable of, but I figured I'd ask. It doesn't even need to be LDraw related, but does anyone have something cool they want rendered? Possibly at some massive resolution, and/or an animation of the camera flying through the model, etc.

I can certainly write something my self that takes forever to render, but since lots of wall time is going to be spent rendering things anyway, I figured I might as well ask if somebody has something worthwhile.

The only thing I ask is that I be granted permission to include the media produced in any relevant publications (think academic paper, etc.).

Hi,

you may convert MLCad parts lists to Bricklink wanted list (http://www.bricklink.com//wantedXML.asp Wanted List Mass Upload)) online at

http://mlcad2bricklink.com/

Doing so lets you search all needed parts for a MOC at once.

The Tool is beta! It does not reflect differences in part numbering between MLCad and Bricklink. Simply becaus I just don't them. The tool's language should be english unless you browser with german settings. At the moment it just supports copy & paste.

Kai

EDIT TG: Added links

..I did not find the answer to this simple question on the following pages:

File Types FAQ
File Format 1.0.2
Tracker FAQ

In addition to that question, I would like to know if it is allowed to change the orientation of official subparts.

http://ldd.lego.com/en-us/download/

And a lot of parts, i was waiting for.
GunGan Head!

Watto

and
http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemPic.asp?P=30342 for 10030

Today I have uploaded the first release of MPDCenter to my webside.
Please visit, try the app and give some feedback to me.

Thanks

MPDCenter webside

As requested here a new colour, Rubber Orange (LDraw code 350) has been added to LDConfig.ldr. Thanks to Scott Wardlaw for turning the request around so quickly.

The colour table has been updated and the new file can be downloaded here.

I've downloaded an l3b file (a model of the Lego 8070 Supercar) from a forum, and when I try to open it, it comes up with a bunch of missing parts. Some of them I was able to find, but I'm still missing a few, and I can't find them, for example, when I search for 58124s03.dat, I get a google result for http://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.cg...124s03.dat, but that page says the part wasn't found. But the page did exist, I found it on archive.org: http://web.archive.org/web/2010120509483...124s03.dat

Why has this part been deleted? Why can't I find it anywhere?

Here are all the parts that the model needs and I can't find:
U9112.DAT
U9113.DAT
58124s03.dat
x882.dat

Hi,

why are images in .DAT ?
Simple question, simple answer please.

Ciaooo,

-Marcello

I was wondering if there is a utility that can generate a cylinder of a given radius, centered on the line between two points. If I had this would be so helpful. The cylinder result would come out as an n-ncyli.dat file. Generated from the first point with the same orientation as the line.

Hey,

Here is the "answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything": LPC 1.4.2


Please uninstall older versions of this software before installing a new version.
Your configuration won't be deleted if you have already version greater than 1.3.1 installed on your machine.

Change log:

New features:

• You can deselect objects with the selection rectangle while pressing CTRL.
  
• You can copy+paste the transformation matrices or vertex coordinates with 1 click.
  
• You can toggle the visibility of the BG image (with Ctrl+B).
  
• You can use a shortkey to dis-/enable the grid (Ctrl+G) / axis label (Ctrl+L).
  
• The previous mode will be restored after closing the preview.
  
• You can use a recent file list.
  
• The French language file is improved.
  

• The file loader crashes because of side-effects from 1.3.8.
  
• Zoom with +/​- does not work in preview mode.
  
• The program crashes when a single group was created, deleted and saved.
  
• Other minor bugs.