LONG POST: ISBN #'s,Sub Image Mgmt.

[Rick Lucertini <empiricus@sprint.ca>]

Ray Keefer wrote:

[snip] Can I get the paticulars. Like ISBM, publisher, cost, source , pages...?
I'll add them to the Books page.

> [snip]
> > "Practical Construction of Warships (R.N. Newton)

Photocopied years ago at the library.  Just have the cover page & selected sub data.
50 pages of relevent material.

> The U-Boat (E.Rossler -
> > Arms and Armour Press, London)

ISBN: 0-85368-115-5 (photocopied - a fluke I have the ISBN), c.1981, library shelf #:
623.8'257, well over 300 pages.

> and, my all time fave because of the extensive
> > discussion of design rationale, "Submarine Boats" (R. Compton-Hall, Arco
> > Publishing)

ISBN: 0-668-05924-9, c. 1983, library shelf #:359.3'257'09, cost (?), 192 pages
including index.

Here's another one of my faves: "Midget Submarine", James Gleason & Tom Waldron,
("Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century" series), Ballantine Books
(Random House), SBN: 345-24067-7-200, c.1975, cost (?), 159 pages.

> > I've got many drawings I've got to email to Ray for placement on our PSub
> > pages. I still need to collate and label them or Ray's gonna shoot me.  They
>
> I hope I don't have a bad reputation! Honest, I am a nice guy. :)

Sorry, Ray - I was projecting my own reaction if someone did that to me!  :-)

I'm an ex-photographer (pro) and I've got thousands of images catalogued, labeled,
yadda yadda.  It's critical in my industry.

I spent hours putting these images onto video tape for transfer via video capture
card, only to realize after all was said and done, that I could have captured the
images directly off the camera into the computer and not from the tape! (hey, I'm a
still photographer, not a videographer- whadda I know??!!!)

The quality is infinitely better as the video camera merely acts as the lens to the
computer.  Moving video tape is obviously not the road to quality.

I'm going to re-do the shoot without the tape this time.  Also, will label them
properly to help you with any data basing you might have to do and to assist the
group with what's what.

Images will be converted from infamous BMP's to glorious JPG's - so, not to worry!

A sampling: plexiglass port design (remember THAT thread?), manifold design drawings,
hull form design from various inspirations, electrical thru-hull connector design
drawings, elevations & plan views of WW II midget subs, Tin Tin sub (remember THAT?),
empennage from a Type VII, a Type XXI, teardrops, etc., periscope details, ballast
tank volumes, moments, basic changes in tankages while diving (dwg's), the basics of
sub statics and dynamics (dwg's), instrumentation templates (for DIY gauges), Kent
Markham's Pop. Mech. sub, and a lot more!

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Also, to the list members: I have a suggestion for anyone with sub images: if you
have web pages with images that take a long time to download, I highly recommend an
app called Thumbs Plus (download-able)

You can avoid a forced wait for surfers by providing thumbnailed images on one page
only.  They can even be grouped behind "click here" buttons (usually the images
themselves are clickable) with labels such as "Members' Subs", "Under Construction",
"Dry Views", "Surfaced Subs", "Component Drawings", "Hull Forms", "Electrical
Details", "Hydrodynamics", "Tankage Estimating", "WW II Midget Subs", "Steering
Gear", "Published Images", "One-At Subs", "Ambient Subs", "Wet Subs", "Tourist Subs",
"People Powered Subs", "Conceptual Art", "Periscope Details", etc. as required.

Surfers can dble. click on any thumbnailed image for a full sized view of that pic.
It's essentially a visual index.

The image contributions to this group are fantastic, but, approaching overwhelming.
Especially with the batch I'll be firing off to you, Ray.  I will categorize them
myself, but, again, we will ultimately be forced into thumbnailing at some point in
the near future.

I shall go forth and transmit gently, but, the rest is up to the web page admins.!
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Rick


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Rick Lucertini
empiricus@sprint.ca
(Vancouver, Canada)

"Most people die with their dreams still inside them."