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"Blue Herring" <bhe### [at] tinfoilcat com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I've been having some fun lately working on a set of macros to create toy
> wooden train sets like those made by Brio, Maxim, and Learning Curve. Any
> feedback is welcome and appreciated. This one is a selection of the various
> kinds of track pieces.
>
> -The Mildly Infamous Blue Herring
Wonderful!
My son just finished to destroy his first set of these :)
--alex
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"Thomas de Groot" <t.d### [at] internlDOTnet> wrote:
>
> Somebody remembers playing with this? I had lots of fun with it. The cars
> could run along flexible metallic strings:
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Schuco.Varianto30.wmt.jpg
>
>
> Thomas
Oh YES, had those. Lots of fun indeed!
There were forks, too, and electrical cars (AA-Batteries!).
We had two differently colored truckies and one of the other cars and what
seemed like kilometers of wire to my brothers and me. Those cars used to drive
all around our parent's living room :-)
Sadly, the motors broke after a few years and my father could't get any
replacement parts, so that was that :-(
Ah, memories of childhood...
Nostalgically yours
Karl
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Blue Herring schrieb:
> This one is a sample of some simple maxim style cars and engine.
>
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Marvelous!
And then this sophisticated discussion about these
heart-warming little trains.
This touches me in some way. Maybe it's memories of
my children's and my own childhood.
-Hans-
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Hans Fink wrote:
> This touches me in some way. Maybe it's memories of
> my children's and my own childhood.
Today all children get warm memories of are their xbox and wii
games... A bit sad, really.
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Hans Fink wrote:
> Marvelous!
>
> And then this sophisticated discussion about these
> heart-warming little trains.
>
> This touches me in some way. Maybe it's memories of
> my children's and my own childhood.
Thanks! I know how you feel, I didn't have these specifically when I
was a kid. The fact that my kids enjoy these trains so much is probably
the reason I tried out modeling them in the first place.
--
-The Mildly Infamous Blue Herring
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Warp wrote:
> Today all children get warm memories of are their xbox and wii
> games... A bit sad, really.
My kids enjoy these trains a great deal. I hope they will remember them
fondly, even though they are still quite young. Maybe having a dad who
is a retro geek will help? =)
--
-The Mildly Infamous Blue Herring
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alex wrote:
> Wonderful!
>
> My son just finished to destroy his first set of these :)
Heh, thanks very much! =)
--
-The Mildly Infamous Blue Herring
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Christian Froeschlin wrote:
> well, if you want to get really nifty, let the user define a
> spline function as an input to your macro which then attempts
> to place pieces following the spline as closely as possible.
> And automatic bridges over self-intersections, of course ;)
That would be nifty =). Might be possible....
--
-The Mildly Infamous Blue Herring
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"Karl Anders" <kar### [at] webde> schreef in bericht
news:web.48364ff6b9c4dd0f9a722ea0@news.povray.org...
>
> Oh YES, had those. Lots of fun indeed!
> There were forks, too, and electrical cars (AA-Batteries!).
> We had two differently colored truckies and one of the other cars and what
> seemed like kilometers of wire to my brothers and me. Those cars used to
> drive
> all around our parent's living room :-)
>
> Sadly, the motors broke after a few years and my father could't get any
> replacement parts, so that was that :-(
>
> Ah, memories of childhood...
>
> Nostalgically yours
> Karl
>
<grin> Yes, revives quite some memories, doesn't it?
There were indeed different kinds of forks (hand-controlled or automatic)
and a bridge. The battery truck was great. The whole set worked best on a
not too smooth surface. We played with it mainly on the (concrete) terrace,
outside the house, in summer.
Thomas
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Blue Herring schrieb:
> Hans Fink wrote:
>> Marvelous!
>>
>> And then this sophisticated discussion about these
>> heart-warming little trains.
>>
>> This touches me in some way. Maybe it's memories of
>> my children's and my own childhood.
>
> Thanks! I know how you feel, I didn't have these specifically when I
> was a kid. The fact that my kids enjoy these trains so much is probably
> the reason I tried out modeling them in the first place.
>
Ah, nice to see it's not just me sentimental nostalgic.
These things from the time my own kids were very young
use to strike a sentimental chord in me. Much more than
memories from my own childhood. (Actually, the time when
I played with these trains is beyond my memory horizon.)
BTW, did you postprocess the image wrt DoF/blur?
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