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(URL) Click the pic for more info Here's some more examples of my software at work, rendered in POV-Ray: (URL) Here's how studs-out building compares to studs-up: (URL) Enjoy! --Bram (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.cad, FTX) !!
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(...) Hi Bram, Some excellent algorithmic design there. Are you sure you shouldn't be doing combinatorics rather than engineering? A few questions about it: 1) Is the whole thing algorithmic or do you have to specify where your snot-centers (I see (...) (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) And apparently my ability to ask questions far supersedes my ability to follow links. I see you've written a handy paper to explain the method. Thanks. Tim (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Building stuff is fun. (...) Thanks! Shoot me an email if you're interested in the code. --Bram (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad)
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Haven't had time to really read into this (will though!) but wanted to post a quick congrats based only on first impressions. They look great! Well done! God Bless, Nathan (URL) (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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Wow... if I were still building witth LEGO bricks with any regularity, this style is all I'd be doing. Beautiful stuff. Eric (...) (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) I sure did!!! Outstanding... Three things I found: - LSculpt seem to prefer "Unix" style PLY (with only CR at the end of text file instead of CR/LF Windows style). I had to convert Stanford bunny (bun_zipper.ply) to be able to use it. - After (...) (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad)
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Awesome work, Bram. Any chance of getting an MPD or some screenshots of the innards of the cow? James Wilson (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Wow! I have been working on some sculptures, scenery’s and a huge globe using these studs out building technique lately. And this would be a great addition. I presume I could also use this in making a landscape with the correct 3D triangle (...) (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Wow. It amazes me what you can come up with :-) I love LEGO. It allows people to do such cool things like this. Spotlighted. -Anne (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Those sculptures look great with studs-all-the-way - it looks like you have released a whole new degree of freedom in sculpting! (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad)
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Very cool. So it looks like this was used for a class project (based on the header of the paper). If so, I hope you got an A. The paper itself looks exactly like papers I've looked at in the past that were presented at SIGGraph. It seems to not like (...) (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) I used someone else's library to read in the PLY files, so I'm not sure what it prefers. STL is a simpler format, so I wrote that parser myself...and haven't had any problems with it. (...) Try saving as PLY binary from 3D Object Converter. As (...) (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hey James, right now there are no inner workings on any of the rendered models. It's up to you to figure out how to build the shape my program spits out. --Bram (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Yep, that should work. You might get some funky pieces around the edges of the mesh, but most of it should be good. If you want a studs up landscape, use "-q -n" in your commandline. (...) I look forward to some cool results! --Bram (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Another handy option might be one to flip bricks pointing down so that they point up. So the sculpture would be completely studs out execept for the bottom, which would always be studs up instead of studs down like it is now. Not sure how this (...) (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad)
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(...) Amazing work Bram! Loved the paper. Just a quick note: The 3D converter that you link to can take as import Renderman files (RIB) and output PLY files. RIB is one of the supported file formats to E-frontier's Poser software. This allows for (...) (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) This is already an option! Use the command line "-b 1" to get the bottom layer of plates studs up instead of studs down. Increase 1 to whatever number of layers you want studs up (it'll do 5 layers at a time, so the next meaningful layer (...) (18 years ago, 15-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hmm. Most of that went over my head. Still, there were a few things that I think confused me due to more than my incipient senility: In formula 3, shouldn't that be "Let k\in \{1,2,3\} such that . . ." rather than "Let k=\{1,2,3\} such that . (...) (18 years ago, 18-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad)
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(...) I always thought $k\in\{1,2,3\}$ was pretty much equivalent in this situation to $k=1,2,3$. By your definition you are assigning k to be equal to the set as opposed to a value. (...) I think you're right about this one. (...) Tim (18 years ago, 18-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad)
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(...) I'm not a math or a CS person really, so some of my notation could very well be wrong. What I meant is that k should be 1, 2, or 3, whichever gives you the biggest answer. (...) Yes. (...) Thanks! --Bram (18 years ago, 18-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad)
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(...) It seems that by default, Visual C++ expects some libraries to exist on the user's computer. I've compiled a static build instead, so hopefully it should work for everyone now. The fixed Windows binary is up on the site. Let me know if you (...) (18 years ago, 14-Jan-07, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad)
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