If you like to read comic books you might know about the enormous collections of digitalized copies that float around the internet. Normally they are in ‘.cbr’ or ‘.cbz’ format, actually simple rar’d or zipped collections of images.
To read them on your computer, you can either unpack the file and use a standard image viewer, [...]
After exchanging a few e-mails with the author, I have managed to build Slackware packages for LeoCAD, both 32 and 64-bits versions.LeoCAD is a wonderful piece of software to create your own Lego constructions virtually on your computer – with an unlimited amount of pieces It can import and export LDR (LDraw) files, and [...]
Today I finished the Slackware packages for POV-Ray, the Persistence of Vision Raytracer, a fantastic free tool for creating stunning 3D images.It can be used also for creating beautiful images of your Lego creations. In a future post I might write a small “how-to” with step-by-step instructions, but here is a small example:
As always, the [...]
LeoCAD is not so simple as I thought… The 64-bit version compiles after some patching, but it crashes horribly with some basic things.While sorting this out, I built packages for ldglite, a little program to view and edit LDraw files. It can be called from the command line also to create images of your drawings.Here [...]
I finished building the Slackware packages for LDView 4.1 (Beta 1).
There are just two dependencies:- tinyxml- LDraw_data (the files with all the different Lego parts)
All packages can be downloaded from my site.
As the original meaning of Lego says: Play well!
Next challenge: building LeoCad…
The city where I live – Rio de Janeiro – will host the 2016 Olympic Games.If you want to see some nice images of the place where I live, check this video:
Dutch guy living in Brazil. Has worked in the IT business since it was invented (well, almost...). Interests: Slackware, Lego, Star Wars.