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Anyone know Brick Builder?
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lugnet.cad
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Mon, 11 Oct 2004 10:11:43 GMT
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Hi All,
Sorry if this has been discussed before (I tried a search, but all it came up
with were posts by Bert Giesen!). At the LDraw presentation at SIGGRAPH 04,
someone in the audience asked whether LDraw could take a 3D model created in
another program and create building instructions from it. Now (LPRIZE
notwithstanding) I was pretty sure the answer to this was “no”.
But I was positive I’d seen something like that earlier at LLCA. I’d gone to
see the Master Model Builders’ finals, and there was a booth there manned by
members of the Arts Institutes - the MMB search co-sponsor. In the booth was a
step-by-step video showing how LEGO designers could take something designed
digitally and reproduce it in brick.. It was a sculpture, like a pig or a trophy
or something (I’m remembering it as being NFL-related).
Well, while flipping through an old sketchbook I found some of the notes I took
from that day, and evidently the program was/is called Brick Builder. Assuming
I took good notes, it had the ability to take polygon mesh models and turn them
into layer-by-layer brick models. My notes also state revisions could be done to
the mesh model (using other programs such as Maya or 3DS) with updates happening
automatically in the brick model. If I recall correctly, LEGO sent personnel to
the Art Institutes for training in 3DStudio MAX just for this purpose..
Does anyone remember seeing something like this as well, and if so, whatever
became of it? Was this something just for internal LEGO use? Anyone here
connected with LEGO ever play with it?
Darrell
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