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From: gyugyi@earthsea.stanford.edu (Paul Gyugyi)
Subject: Earthsea archive site
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Date: Mon, 15 Nov 93 16:52:28 GMT
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In article <1993Nov14.131033.1@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu> crumpet@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu writes:
>I remember seeing a site posted here a week ago, but of course I didn't write
>it down..  Can someone post any known sites with old/new Lego set diagrams? 
>(As in the diagrams that show you how to build whatever's on the box cover)
>
The ftp archive at earthsea.stanford.edu (36.60.0.64) is alive and
well,  although I havn't been able to restore all the scans yet.
There _is_ room for more uploads, so keep scanning!
(scans of old instruction sets may be found in:
/pub/lego/images/scanned/copyrighted_lego_scans/*.gif

I will be restoring the missing instruction scans soon.  I will
take advantage of the situation and do some image processing to
"flatten" the colors, gaining a 2:1 compression.  (The instruction
sheets have large uniform color regions.  Scanning adds some noise,
making the region "textured".  By doing a color reduction, the
region maps into the same color and the GIF compression works much
better and cleans up the noise.  This doesn't work well for images
in general, but is ideal for instruction sheet scans.)

-gyug




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