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Re: Classic scale building?
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lugnet.build, lugnet.cad
Date: 
Sun, 14 Mar 1999 01:51:15 GMT
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I wrote:
The skyscraper that (loosely) inspired the model is in downtown Chicago
near Grant Park (I think)  Does anyone know the name of the building?

I found the name!  It's the New Pudential Building in downtown Chicago.  When I
went to Chicago a few years ago, I liked the design of the building because it
was somewhat original.  A month or so later, I was finally figuring out how
LDraw worked.  The 386 I was using was too slow to use LEdit effectively, so I
made the first version of the skyscraper entirely in a text editor (and it was
my first-ever model in LDraw, too!).  I even prompted James Jessiman to
create the -fs option in LDraw so that it wouldn't take me half an hour to
render two floors.  By the time I had gotten to the complicated roof, I had a
486 I could use.  I finished off the roof in LEdit.  Recently, I came back to
the model, split it into sub-models, and reworked the design a bit.
  This is the first time I've compared it to a photograph, and I must say that
I got pretty close for creating the model entirely from memory.  Here's where I
found the name:
http://www.xnet.com/~jkelley/VirtualC/StdOil.html
I'll post my model to cad.dat
--Bram



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  Re: Classic scale building?
 
I'd like to post the skyscraper I designed to lugnet.cad.dat: (URL) MPD file is approx. 100 Kb. That's not too big to post, is it? The skyscraper that (loosely) inspired the model is in downtown Chicago near Grant Park (I think) Does anyone know the (...) (25 years ago, 13-Mar-99, to lugnet.build, lugnet.cad)

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