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At NWBrickCon2006 I showed my
first ever multi-colored sculpture.
It was a part of the moonbase display. It was an 8 foot tall cone with a
bulging red stripe spiraling up the side.
But the red stripe is structural. It’s not just tacked on the outside. It may
look boring to other people (after all it’s not
naked people), but it’s one of my
most important technical breakthroughs.
Comments welcome and appreciated.
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Hello!
That’s cool. That looks like a large Schultüte. (What’s a Schultüte? Look it up
here:
Schultüte at LEO.org)
And it’s another tower that’s taller than mine. Sighs.
The naked mini... erm... bigfigs = sculptures are great, too.
Bye
Jojo
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In lugnet.announce.moc, David Winkler wrote:
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At NWBrickCon2006 I showed my
first ever multi-colored sculpture.
It was a part of the moonbase display. It was an 8 foot tall cone with a
bulging red stripe spiraling up the side.
But the red stripe is structural. It’s not just tacked on the outside. It may
look boring to other people (after all it’s not
naked people), but it’s one of
my most important technical breakthroughs.
Comments welcome and appreciated.
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If this wasn’t Lego it would be boring, but somewhow the knowledge of how it is
constructed gives it that something extra . I think if you had worked out some
sort of studless super SNOT construction it just wouldn’t work. As a matter of
interest what is the technological breakthrough? I see it has a standard
corridor, whats inside it?
Re-reading this I realise it sounds a bit negative,
but trust me I don’t mean it to.
Tim
Perhaps you need a naked minifig climbing it (with helmet and airtanks of
course)!
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In lugnet.announce.moc, David Winkler wrote:
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At NWBrickCon2006 I showed my
first ever multi-colored sculpture.
It was a part of the moonbase display. It was an 8 foot tall cone with a
bulging red stripe spiraling up the side.
But the red stripe is structural. It’s not just tacked on the outside. It may
look boring to other people (after all it’s not
naked people), but it’s one of
my most important technical breakthroughs.
Comments welcome and appreciated.
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David,
I want to see pictures of the fig leaf that you built to cover it. ;-)
Seriously, how did you transport it? Did you split it into sections or did you
move it whole? Also, how thick are the walls?
Having never built anything to that scale, I must admit it is quite impressive
in size and design.
Jude
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In lugnet.announce.moc, David Winkler wrote:
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At NWBrickCon2006 I showed my
first ever multi-colored sculpture.
It was a part of the moonbase display. It was an 8 foot tall cone with a
bulging red stripe spiraling up the side.
But the red stripe is structural. It’s not just tacked on the outside. It may
look boring to other people (after all it’s not
naked people), but it’s one of
my most important technical breakthroughs.
Comments welcome and appreciated.
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I’d like to point out that the space men climbing up at the bottom were my
contribution to David’s Sculpture.
It was really quite impressive. Well Done.
steve
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Impressive! I have never even attempted a sculpture (I feel like an dinosaur on
Lugnet now ; ) but this still looks very tricky... I love the sharpness of the
line itself, and the figs at the base really make it.
Thanks for sharing and God Bless,
Nathan
Visit my brickshelf gallery:
(pic=link)
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David, you continue to astound me. Absolutely awesome. To think it is boring is
completely absurd--might actually be your best yet in my opinion. And I really
can see how it is a breakthrough of sorts.
What a memorial it would make with engraved bricks spiraling to the top--hehe.
Love it
Tommy Armstrong
www.brickengraver.com
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I don’t think its boring at all. For me, a non-spacer, it was the coolest part
of the moonbase. Very impressive!
Josh
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In lugnet.build.sculpture, Tim David wrote:
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In lugnet.announce.moc, David Winkler wrote:
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At NWBrickCon2006 I showed my
first ever multi-colored sculpture.
It was a part of the moonbase display. It was an 8 foot tall cone with a
bulging red stripe spiraling up the side.
But the red stripe is structural. It’s not just tacked on the outside. It
may look boring to other people (after all it’s not
naked people), but it’s one of
my most important technical breakthroughs.
Comments welcome and appreciated.
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If this wasn’t Lego it would be boring, but somewhow the knowledge of how it
is constructed gives it that something extra . I think if you had worked out
some sort of studless super SNOT construction it just wouldn’t work. As a
matter of interest what is the technological breakthrough? I see it has a
standard corridor, whats inside it?
Re-reading this I realise it sounds a
bit negative, but trust me I don’t mean it to.
Tim
Perhaps you need a naked minifig climbing it (with helmet and airtanks of
course)!
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I will confess that the interior is empty.
The technological breakthrough was the ability to produce the color voxel
representation of the multi-colored object.
To transform objects into voxels I had been rendering slices through them. (page
7 of
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/happyfrosh/BrickFest2005/automatedbricklayout.pdf)
But this doesn’t work for color... sort of. What I had to do instead is render
the object through Pov-Ray from each of the directions (+-x, +-y, +-z), then
merge the output to get multiple votes on what color each voxel should be.
Playing with it I end up using 3x3 pixels per side of each voxel for 9*6=54
votes per voxel.
Then these voxels go through hollowing software to identify the voxels visible
from the exterior. All of the interior voxels are marked as “don’t care”, and
the filling software uses them how it sees fit to minimize expesive pieces or to
improve structure. (I had made extensive use of “don’t care” for the
globes but the voxels for those
models had been done using techniques that really only worked for spheres)
-David Winkler
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In lugnet.build.sculpture, Jude Beaudin wrote:
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In lugnet.announce.moc, David Winkler wrote:
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At NWBrickCon2006 I showed my
first ever multi-colored sculpture.
It was a part of the moonbase display. It was an 8 foot tall cone with a
bulging red stripe spiraling up the side.
But the red stripe is structural. It’s not just tacked on the outside. It
may look boring to other people (after all it’s not
naked people), but it’s one of
my most important technical breakthroughs.
Comments welcome and appreciated.
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David,
I want to see pictures of the fig leaf that you built to cover it. ;-)
Seriously, how did you transport it? Did you split it into sections or did
you move it whole? Also, how thick are the walls?
Having never built anything to that scale, I must admit it is quite
impressive in size and design.
Jude
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I built it in five sections, each a little under 2 feet tall. These were merged
together the first morning to form the full tower. Unfortunately since I hadn’t
done tile layers it couldn’t come apart afterwards. So it had to come home in
many many pieces. The entire thing was broken down to
fit in
a Costco plastic crate.
All of my stuff is two studs thick. So the top foot or so is solid, but below
that is about half an inch thick without any internal support. But it’s still
pretty strong.
Thank you,
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In lugnet.build.sculpture, Steve Witt wrote:
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In lugnet.announce.moc, David Winkler wrote:
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At NWBrickCon2006 I showed my
first ever multi-colored sculpture.
It was a part of the moonbase display. It was an 8 foot tall cone with a
bulging red stripe spiraling up the side.
But the red stripe is structural. It’s not just tacked on the outside. It
may look boring to other people (after all it’s not
naked people), but it’s one of
my most important technical breakthroughs.
Comments welcome and appreciated.
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I’d like to point out that the space men climbing up at the bottom were my
contribution to David’s Sculpture.
It was really quite impressive. Well Done.
steve
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And I have to say thank you for adding these. The stories being told on the
moonbase are a lot of the fun. I liked the space men chasing the zombies up the
tower. Other fantastic stories on the moonbase were the spaceman
stopping to smell the flowers, the martian
stealing the spaceman’s helmet, the explosive decompression in
Daniel’s underworld slum, and the name of
the
moonbase church.
-David
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In lugnet.announce.moc, David Winkler wrote:
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At NWBrickCon2006 I showed my
first ever multi-colored sculpture.
It was a part of the moonbase display. It was an 8 foot tall cone with a
bulging red stripe spiraling up the side.
But the red stripe is structural. It’s not just tacked on the outside. It may
look boring to other people (after all it’s not
naked people), but it’s one of
my most important technical breakthroughs.
Comments welcome and appreciated.
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All I can say is WOW :)
-Anne
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