Top 30 LDraw parts authors

[Steffen]

In lugnet.cad, Philippe Hurbain wrote:
> I'm said to be a prolific parts author, so I wanted to verify the truth
> behind... A few find in files, some Excel work and a bit of manual cleaning
> gives the result below. This was done on the full collection of official LDraw
> parts + unofficial ones up to march 2011.
>
> Have fun!
>
> Philo


source:
http://www.lugnet.com/cad/?n=17710


PS
I took this from Google's cached version of the site, as lugnet currently seems to be down

[Tim Gould]

Since lugnet is back up for a bit...

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'm said to be a prolific parts author, so I wanted to verify the truth behind... A few find in files, some Excel work and a bit of manual cleaning gives the result below. This was done on the full collection of official LDraw parts + unofficial ones up to march 2011. Have fun! Philo --------------------------------------- Parts Author's name ---------------------------------------------------------------- 684 James Jessiman 535 Philippe Hurbain [Philo] 496 Michael Heidemann [mikeheide] 400 Chris Dee [cwdee] 329 Tore Eriksson [simlego] 318 J.C. Tchang [tchang] 317 Steffen [Steffen] 248 Guy Vivan [guyvivan] 213 Andy Westrate [westrate] 185 Alex Taylor [anathema] 166 Steve Bliss [sbliss] 145 Niels Karsdorp [nielsk] 139 Franklin W. Cain [fwcain] 138 Marc Klein [marckl] 114 Willy Tschager [Holly-Wood] 95 Thomas Burger [grapeape] 92 Arne Hackstein 87 Paul Easter [pneaster] 84 Donald Sutter [technog] 77 Bernd Broich [bbroich] 74 Magnus Forsberg [MagFors] 70 John Van Zwieten [jvan] 68 Santeri Piippo [arezey] 57 William Howard [WilliamH] 43 Tony Hafner [hafhead] 42 Nils Schmidt [BlackBrick89] 39 John Riley [jriley] 35 Lutz Uhlmann [El-Lutzo] 35 Orion Pobursky [OrionP] 33 Joerg Sommerer [Brickaneer]

[Steffen]

I was curious again and updated the list above to the most recent parts update 2012-02,
counting the Author: lines in the \p, \parts and \parts\s files:

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Philippe Hurbain [Philo] 921 James Jessiman 779 Chris Dee [cwdee] 555 Steffen [Steffen] 544 Michael Heidemann [mikeheide] 494 Guy Vivan [guyvivan] 409 Alex Taylor [anathema] 373 Tore Eriksson [Tore_Eriksson] 346 J.C. Tchang [tchang] 338 Andy Westrate [westrate] 248 Steve Bliss [sbliss] 225 Franklin W. Cain [fwcain] 225 Magnus Forsberg [MagFors] 187 Willy Tschager [Holly-Wood] 169 Niels Karsdorp [nielsk] 166 Marc Klein [marckl] 162 Donald Sutter [technog] 154 Paul Easter [pneaster] 138 Bernd Broich [bbroich] 121 John Van Zwieten [jvan] 119 Thomas Burger [grapeape] 108 Santeri Piippo [arezey] 105 Nils Schmidt [BlackBrick89] 103 William Howard [WilliamH] 100 Joerg Sommerer [Brickaneer] 94 Arne Hackstein 90 John Riley [jriley] 75 Orion Pobursky [OrionP] 72 Tim Gould [timgould] 65 Mark Kennedy [mkennedy] 60

[Philippe Hurbain]

Imho you should only count in parts folder...

[Steffen]

Counting only the \PARTS folder of our parts collection up to and including parts update 2012-02
yields as top-30-authors:

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James Jessiman 679 Philippe Hurbain [Philo] 559 Chris Dee [cwdee] 410 Steffen [Steffen] 410 Michael Heidemann [mikeheide] 363 Tore Eriksson [Tore_Eriksson] 320 J.C. Tchang [tchang] 269 Guy Vivan [guyvivan] 196 Alex Taylor [anathema] 169 Andy Westrate [westrate] 164 Steve Bliss [sbliss] 160 Franklin W. Cain [fwcain] 137 Marc Klein [marckl] 130 Niels Karsdorp [nielsk] 116 Magnus Forsberg [MagFors] 113 Willy Tschager [Holly-Wood] 101 Thomas Burger [grapeape] 90 Arne Hackstein 90 Paul Easter [pneaster] 85 Donald Sutter [technog] 82 Nils Schmidt [BlackBrick89] 77 Bernd Broich [bbroich] 75 John Van Zwieten [jvan] 69 Tim Gould [timgould] 53 William Howard [WilliamH] 50 Joerg Sommerer [Brickaneer] 49 Santeri Piippo [arezey] 43 Tony Hafner [hafhead] 43 Christian Neumann [Wesley] 43 John Riley [jriley] 36

[Steffen]

Counting only the \PARTS folder of our parts collection up to and including parts update 2013-01
yields as top-30-authors:

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Philippe Hurbain 698 James Jessiman 679 Chris Dee 421 Steffen 419 Michael Heidemann 401 J.C. Tchang 334 Tore Eriksson 325 Guy Vivan 206 Alex Taylor 179 Andy Westrate 172 Steve Bliss 163 Magnus Forsberg 162 Franklin W. Cain 137 Marc Klein 134 Niels Karsdorp 120 Willy Tschager 103 Arne Hackstein 90 Thomas Burger 90 Donald Sutter 88 Paul Easter 85 Nils Schmidt 82 Bernd Broich 77 Christian Neumann 70 Howard Lande 68 John Van Zwieten 68 Joerg Sommerer 63 Tim Gould 56 Santeri Piippo 53 Max Martin Richter 50 William Howard 50

[Travis Cobbs]

Congratulations Philo on surpassing James. 139 new files in the latest update seems like a lot even for you.

[Santeri Piippo]

I'm still that far down..? oh well, my parts are way more complex than your puny bricks and patterns anyway.

[Steffen]

Counting only the \PARTS folder of our parts collection up to and including parts update 2013-02,
and leaving out all trivial "=" alias and "~moved to" files yields as top-31-authors:

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Philippe Hurbain 857 James Jessiman 685 Steffen 429 Michael Heidemann 408 Chris Dee 398 J.C. Tchang 366 Tore Eriksson 325 Magnus Forsberg 234 Guy Vivan 208 Alex Taylor 182 Andy Westrate 178 Steve Bliss 150 Marc Klein 137 Franklin W. Cain 137 Niels Karsdorp 120 Willy Tschager 104 Arne Hackstein 91 Thomas Burger 90 Donald Sutter 89 Paul Easter 87 Nils Schmidt 82 Max Martin Richter 79 Bernd Broich 76 Christian Neumann 73 Howard Lande 69 John Van Zwieten 68 Joerg Sommerer 67 Santeri Piippo 56 Tim Gould 56 Daniel Goerner 48 William Howard 48

EDIT: re-counted numbers by leaving out trivial "=" aliases and "~moved to" files.

[Rolf Osterthun]

Hey Steffen,

thanks for the analysis. But I have one suggestion for improvement: In my opinion the alias files should not have the same weight like the original files (suggestion alias weight=0).

Rolf

[Steffen]

oh, definitely. will re-count. also have to leave out moved-to's.

by the way, the counting is just for fun. this is not a race. and: modeling 1 complex part can be much more difficult than 10 easy ones. so please nobody misunderstand my post.

[Michael Heidemann]

Maybe also the number of lines should be taken into consideration, as a more complex part would have more lines (subparts inlined).

[Steffen]

ugh, I didn't want to make this academic research...
and also doing that line count may lead to the effect that people think "more lines is better".
it is not. the art is, as in programming, to create the same geometry with as _few_ lines as possible...
so for now I will just stick to simply counting files, leaving out the trivial aliases and moved-to's.
I find this a reasonable way of counting, as each part file represents an entity you can build with, regardless if it is complex or not.

[Michael Horvath]

Yeah, James is going to have to work hard to catch up again.

[Santeri Piippo]

Gah, I really need to stop specializing in Bionicle parts and find some easy patterns to do in 10 minutes. :p

Yeah, James is going to have to work hard to catch up again.

... :|

[Tim Gould]

FYI I split this off to a new topic. I got very confused scrolling down the top 30 part authors only to find completely unrelated comments about forum tags

[Michael Horvath]

There should be a separate count for the number of polygons created.

[Max Martin Richter]

Lets count the polygons on a detailed 48x48 baseplate... :-)

/Max

[Michael Heidemann]

That' a good point for _not_ counting polygons

Let's count the part files like Steffen suggests. I feel thats a good compromize .
I am sure that half of my parts are now out of the race

[Steffen]

I've re-counted and updated the numbers above.

[Michael Horvath]

Maybe also the number of lines should be taken into consideration, as a more complex part would have more lines (subparts inlined).

This sounds OK.

[Michael Heidemann]

We have already thrown away this idea as a good part author can use less lines and that should be our goal

[Chris Dee]

Agreed.

I once worked in a programming team where it was suggested (by management) that performance should be measured in terms of number of lines of code produced. A very BAD idea that was quickly abandoned.

[Michael Horvath]

We have already thrown away this idea as a good part author can use less lines and that should be our goal

Then we must rank people by the fewest number of lines used.

[Steffen]

yes, same here.
that always leads to bloating and copy+paste instead of unifying.
the result is a terrible pile of baby code.
a typical, frequent error done by managers who never have programmed
and measure code like they measure trainloads of coal: by sheer counting.

[Steffen]

Counting only the \PARTS folder of our parts collection up to and including parts update 2015-01,
and leaving out all trivial "=" alias and "~moved to" files yields as top-30-authors:

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Philippe Hurbain 1258 James Jessiman 679 Steffen 444 Michael Heidemann 431 Chris Dee 417 J.C. Tchang 415 Magnus Forsberg 400 Tore Eriksson 325 Guy Vivan 215 Andy Westrate 189 Alex Taylor 187 Christian Neumann 172 Steve Bliss 150 Marc Klein 138 Franklin W. Cain 137 Niels Karsdorp 121 Willy Tschager 120 Damien Roux 103 Max Martin Richter 103 Thomas Burger 91 Arne Hackstein 91 Donald Sutter 90 Paul Easter 87 Nils Schmidt 84 Howard Lande 78 Bernd Broich 76 John Van Zwieten 69 Stan Isachenko 69 Joerg Sommerer 68 Santeri Piippo 63

This counting is just for fun - part authoring is not a race.
And: modeling 1 complex part can be much more difficult than 10 easy ones, of course.

[Willy Tschager]

What impresses me most is the number of people we lost on the way!

w.

PS. Who is this Philippe Hurbain guy at the top?

[Santeri Piippo]

Uh oh. I'm gonna fall off the list soon! Gotta drop out of university to work on more LDraw parts.

[Steffen]

Here is an update of the statistics up to and including parts update 2018-02.

As said above: This counting is just for fun - part authoring is not a race:
Modeling 1 complex part can be much more difficult than 10 easy ones.

With update 2018-02, we have exactly 11000 files in the PARTS folder.
Not counting "=" aliases and "~moved to" files, 9924 real PARTS files remain.
Counting the authors of those yields these top-30-authors:

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  1851   Philippe Hurbain            [Philo]    675   James Jessiman    635   Magnus Forsberg             [MagFors]    506   Steffen                     [Steffen]    439   Chris Dee                   [cwdee]    435   Michael Heidemann           [mikeheide]    429   J.C. Tchang                 [tchang]    342   Tore Eriksson               [Tore_Eriksson]    234   Christian Neumann           [Wesley]    222   Guy Vivan                   [guyvivan]    191   Andy Westrate               [westrate]    188   Alex Taylor                 [anathema]    182   Damien Roux                 [Darats]    173   Willy Tschager              [Holly-Wood]    158   Gerald Lasser               [GeraldLasser]    151   Steve Bliss                 [sbliss]    139   Marc Klein                  [marckl]    137   Franklin W. Cain            [fwcain]    134   Max Martin Richter          [MMR1988]    121   Niels Karsdorp              [nielsk]     91   Donald Sutter               [technog]     91   Arne Hackstein     90   Thomas Burger               [grapeape]     88   Paul Easter                 [pneaster]     87   Nils Schmidt                [BlackBrick89]     84   Howard Lande                [HowardLande]     79   Bernd Broich                [bbroich]     76   Santeri Piippo              [arezey]     73   Stan Isachenko              [angmarec]     70   Joerg Sommerer              [Brickaneer]

[Philippe Hurbain]

[Michael Heidemann]

I am still in the top ten - great

[Steffen]

Here is an update of the statistics up to and including parts update 2019-03.

As said above: This counting is just for fun - part authoring is not a race:
Modeling 1 complex part can be much more difficult than 10 easy ones.

With update 2019-03, we have 12255 files in the PARTS folder.
Not counting "=" aliases and "~moved to" files, 11106 real PARTS files remain.
Counting the authors of those yields these top-30-authors:

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   2173 Philippe Hurbain [Philo]     744 Magnus Forsberg [MagFors]     674 James Jessiman     537 Steffen [Steffen]     456 J.C. Tchang [tchang]     450 Chris Dee [cwdee]     437 Michael Heidemann [mikeheide]     348 Tore Eriksson [Tore_Eriksson]     261 Gerald Lasser [GeraldLasser]     234 Christian Neumann [Wesley]     225 Guy Vivan [guyvivan]     217 Damien Roux [Darats]     204 Willy Tschager [Holly-Wood]     192 Andy Westrate [westrate]     191 Alex Taylor [anathema]     155 Johann Eisner [technicbasics]     153 Max Martin Richter [MMR1988]     151 Steve Bliss [sbliss]     148 Ulrich Röder [UR]     138 Marc Klein [marckl]     137 Franklin W. Cain [fwcain]     121 Niels Karsdorp [nielsk]      93 Howard Lande [HowardLande]      91 Thomas Burger [grapeape]      91 Nils Schmidt [BlackBrick89]      91 Donald Sutter [technog]      91 Arne Hackstein      89 Massimo Maso [Sirio]      88 Paul Easter [pneaster]      81 Santeri Piippo [arezey]

[Steffen]

Here is an update of the statistics up to and including parts update 2020-01.

As said above: This counting is just for fun - part authoring is not a race:
Modeling 1 complex part can be much more difficult than 10 easy ones.

With update 2020-01, we have 12698 files in the PARTS folder.
Not counting "=" aliases and "~moved to" files, 11526 real PARTS files remain.
Counting the authors of those yields these top-30-authors:

Code:

2348 Philippe Hurbain [Philo] 769 Magnus Forsberg [MagFors] 674 James Jessiman 539 Steffen [Steffen] 458 J.C. Tchang [tchang] 455 Chris Dee [cwdee] 438 Michael Heidemann [mikeheide] 348 Tore Eriksson [Tore_Eriksson] 313 Gerald Lasser [GeraldLasser] 234 Christian Neumann [Wesley] 223 Willy Tschager [Holly-Wood] 223 Guy Vivan [guyvivan] 218 Damien Roux [Darats] 203 Alex Taylor [anathema] 193 Andy Westrate [westrate] 160 Johann Eisner [technicbasics] 153 Max Martin Richter [MMR1988] 151 Steve Bliss [sbliss] 150 Ulrich Röder [UR] 138 Marc Klein [marckl] 137 Franklin W. Cain [fwcain] 120 Niels Karsdorp [nielsk] 107 Vincent Messenet [Cheenzo] 98 Massimo Maso [Sirio] 95 Howard Lande [HowardLande] 91 Thomas Burger [grapeape] 91 Nils Schmidt [BlackBrick89] 91 Donald Sutter [technog] 91 Arne Hackstein 89 Evert-Jan Boer [ejboer]

[Steffen]

Here is an update of the statistics up to and including parts update 2020-02.

As said above: This counting is just for fun - part authoring is not a race:
Modeling 1 complex part can be much more difficult than 10 easy ones.

With update 2020-02, we have 13207 files in the PARTS folder.
Not counting "=" aliases and "~moved to" files, 12016 real PARTS files remain.
Counting the authors of those yields these top-30-authors:

Code:

2437 Philippe Hurbain [Philo]  804 Magnus Forsberg [MagFors]  674 James Jessiman  554 Steffen [Steffen]  498 Chris Dee [cwdee]  460 J.C. Tchang [tchang]  440 Michael Heidemann [mikeheide]  355 Gerald Lasser [GeraldLasser]  349 Tore Eriksson [Tore_Eriksson]  234 Christian Neumann [Wesley]  229 Willy Tschager [Holly-Wood]  228 Guy Vivan [guyvivan]  221 Damien Roux [Darats]  208 Alex Taylor [anathema]  194 Andy Westrate [westrate]  164 Ulrich Röder [UR]  162 Johann Eisner [technicbasics]  155 Max Martin Richter [MMR1988]  151 Steve Bliss [sbliss]  150 Vincent Messenet [Cheenzo]  138 Marc Klein [marckl]  137 Franklin W. Cain [fwcain]  128 Evert-Jan Boer [ejboer]  120 Niels Karsdorp [nielsk]  113 Massimo Maso [Sirio]   97 Howard Lande [HowardLande]   91 Thomas Burger [grapeape]   91 Nils Schmidt [BlackBrick89]   91 Donald Sutter [technog]   91 Arne Hackstein

[Gerald Lasser]

Always amazing to see Philo's list!

You need to make one of the parts that are still on the PT, who's got most in the backlog :-)

[Orion Pobursky]

Always amazing to see Philo's list!

You need to make one of the parts that are still on the PT, who's got most in the backlog :-)

Working on it. I've written code to database the library info so pulling this information shouldn't be too hard.

[Magnus Forsberg]

Here's an image of the numbers:

   

[N. W. Perry]

…and I am very pleased to have five humble parts in the official library. :-)

(So far mostly patterns and little geometric tweaks to existing parts. I have yet to create a completely new part, other than stickers, but my re-build of 4208 is my first real attempt at building new geometry.)

[Willy Tschager]

The first number in front of Philo's part count is clearly an error. Would you please just delete it  

w.