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December 21st, 2009 by Niels Horn in , |

For those who use LDView on Slackware-current and noticed that it suddenly stopped working: the problem is in the latest update of the "boost" library:
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Thu Dec 17 20:51:37 UTC 2009
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l/boost-1.41.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
This latest update does not include the *-mt (=multi-thread) libraries, as the "normal" version is already multi-threaded.
The solution to get LDView working again is simply [...]

October 11th, 2009 by Niels Horn in , , ,

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 [...]

October 6th, 2009 by Niels Horn in , , , |

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 [...]

October 5th, 2009 by Niels Horn in , , |

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 [...]

October 3rd, 2009 by Niels Horn in , , |

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…

September 29th, 2009 by Niels Horn in , , |

I am currently in the process of building some software on Linux for viewing and building Lego projects.The first program I have been successful with is LDView, a very nice tool to visualize LDraw files.I have it working on Slackware 13.0, both 32-bits and 64-bits. It is still a bit of a "hacked" installation, as [...]

April 18th, 2009 by Niels Horn in , |

It's been a week since Easter, but here is a little article I found about a sculpture of Jesus, build in a church in Vasteras, Sweden. It was made using 30.000 pieces:
The article can be found here.

October 16th, 2008 by Niels Horn in ,

I am a big fan of Lego. Unfortunately I haven't had much time lately to build anything, but I try to keep up-to-date with the latest news.Yesterday I read that famous department store Neiman Marcus has a new item in it's Christmas Catalog: A life-size sculpture of you made from Lego.

Price-tag: $60,000.00 (does not include [...]