The Unofficial LEGO Builder's Guide (Now in Color), 2nd Edition

Appendix C. A Note from the Illustrator

Most of the images in this book were computer generated using freely available software written by the LEGO user community. The core software, LDraw, was originally developed in 1995 by James Jessiman with a DOS interface. The LDraw file format is still used today to maintain a library of thousands of LEGO parts modeled by users. I used the LDraw editor MLCad (created by Michael Lachmann) to assemble the virtual parts for the images in this book. The models were then imported into a viewer called LDView (created by Travis Cobbs), which I used to find just the right orientation and perspective for each picture. LDView then converted and exported the LDraw files into a form that could be read by POV-Ray (Persistence ...