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Wow, Sean, great job on sculptures! I have to say I feel a special connection to this project because my great uncle was the Gorton's Fisherman. In fact, my grandfather's brother, (URL) Addison Powell>, may be the face that many of you remember as (...) (19 years ago, 15-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(...) message truncated (...) Sean, What a coincidence that TexLUG's Spring 2006 meet will be on the same weekend as one of the San Antonio showings! One of the viewing locations is less than 6 miles from the convention center where our event is (...) (19 years ago, 15-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(...) i live about 30mins from the first chicago location which is really close to the lego store. i'll head up there and take a couple pics for you on the 25th. it will give me a chance to check out the store while i'm up there anyway. well done (...) (19 years ago, 15-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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Hi, everybody! For the past 3 months, I've been working with folks from (URL) Seafood> on a sculpture of the Gortons' Fisherman (as seen in (URL) logo>.) Alone, he's not such a big model -- but I was asked to build EIGHT of them! (3 URLs) See photos (...) (19 years ago, 15-Feb-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.loc.us.ca.la, lugnet.loc.us.nc.cha, lugnet.loc.us.pa, lugnet.loc.us.in.ind, lugnet.loc.us.il.chi, lugnet.loc.us.tx.ant, FTX) !!
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(...) This is a great sculpture, a very nice follow up to the piece you brought to brickfest. Is this the final form, or a proof of concept for yet another piece? I'm curious about the yellow- how did you decide on that? I can visualize several of (...) (19 years ago, 5-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(...) I look at this work and see a great creation built with my favorite bricks and I appreciate the effort it took to build. I also look at this and see a work of art produced in a favorite medium that I can identify with and appreciate. Any way (...) (19 years ago, 5-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(...) At the recent BrickFest, there was a discussion of a few artsy-fartsy types at Rocklands over a good bit of good beer about "Art and LEGO" and whether it existed -or whether it was just translation of existing work into a new medium. You are (...) (19 years ago, 4-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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This is really nice. (...) (19 years ago, 4-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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Today is a good day. Thank you for sharing your amazing work. e (19 years ago, 3-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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It was time to build something from a (URL) Poser> figure. In the past I had done the plans first, then ordered the pieces, then built. This time I decided to try to build using only the pieces that I already owned. This meant doing a complete sort (...) (19 years ago, 3-Feb-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX) !!
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Well, I still had the map of the world lying around, and I had a studs-up sphere generator. Why not be thorough? Step-by-step plans of globes of the world of radius 15-48. (Below radius 15 the land masses didn't show up well.) Brickshelf gallery (...) (19 years ago, 31-Jan-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(...) The smallest pieces are actual ABS granules. They will go through life without the joy of being melted and molded into a LEGO brick. The same effect could be achieved by cutting a small plate or brick, but I don't recommend that. (19 years ago, 31-Jan-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(...) Edit: Except they seem way too small, even for Modulex. Perhaps they're carved from larger bricks. (19 years ago, 30-Jan-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(...) Those might be Modulex pieces. (19 years ago, 30-Jan-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(...) Cool! How did you make the smallest red & yellow bits? Jeff (19 years ago, 30-Jan-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(...) Reposting message to add embedded image. (URL) (19 years ago, 29-Jan-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(This article also appears as an (URL) on my blog>) My wife and I visited her family in Williamsport, PA last September. There is a very small airport there which just has one gate, served by US Airways Express turboprop planes. So imagine my (...) (19 years ago, 17-Jan-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.loc.us.pa, FTX)
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I finally finished building a globe from my (URL) plans>. (URL) gallery>> I built three panels using the revised plans with 1 (URL) 2434 (Brick, Modified 2 x 4 x 2 with Studs on Sides)> piece in each side.. Then I tried putting the three panels (...) (19 years ago, 3-Jan-06, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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While waiting on my Bricklink order, I built a second snowflake for the tree, this time with no SNOT. (URL) Of course once my order did arrive, I was able to make my four decorative Lowell Spheres, two red, two white. (2 URLs) The whole ornament (...) (19 years ago, 27-Dec-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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just a simple xmas wreath, with credit for the idea and some of the design going to my daughter... (URL) (19 years ago, 27-Dec-05, to lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.fun.holiday)
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Here's a few Christmas ornaments I built this year for our first Christmas tree. (URL) This one is a simple wrapped package, using my modest collection of gold bricks. To tell the truth, I'm three gold bricks shy of the full 16 necessary, so I used (...) (19 years ago, 19-Dec-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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That is awesome! You captured that anguished look quite well. Josh (19 years ago, 17-Dec-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(...) Updating this thread with my latest work. I've (URL) posted> a bit of my work on using Poser6 to generate brick outlines for sculpture. This would now be the way that I would go for a large sculpture. The Lugnet thread is entitled "Using (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(...) How cute! I'm amazed at how you managed to make everything 'organic' - and if you built a Dory...aw man. Really nice work! Joe Meno .space paparazzi! (19 years ago, 14-Dec-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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Hi, everybody! I was recently commissioned to build two sculptures of Marlin and Nemo from Disney's movie "Finding Nemo". Marlin is about 8 inches long, and Nemo is about 6 inches long. (URL) I knew that making the vertical stripes on the clown fish (...) (19 years ago, 14-Dec-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.disney, FTX) !!
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(...) For you too, Jordan! This is an excelent creation! Thanks for sharing (URL) Marco> (19 years ago, 13-Dec-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(Blatently) inspired by (URL) Eric Harshbarger's snowman>, I wanted to create a centerpiece for a Christmas party I'm attending later this week. However, I discovered I didn't have enough white 2 x 2 corner plates, so I couldn't even finish the back (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.build.vignette, FTX) !!
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I saw this a few weeks ago and thought maybe Nathan would make a post today. I don't see that he did, so here's Nathan's very unique tribute to John Lennon: (URL) (19 years ago, 8-Dec-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build.sculpture) !
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Hey all, Just saw (URL) story linked on ILENN>. Jeremiah VanderMark has been chosen to create a large public sculpture of Hans Christian Anderson for a park in Greenville Michigan. Congratulations, Jeremiah. Do you have pictures posted of your (...) (19 years ago, 6-Dec-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(...) Still haven't heard back from the Poser software vendor. I'm starting to think that they don't take Legos seriously. ;) I added a more interesting pose to the (URL) folder> and a (URL) render>. (URL) -dw (19 years ago, 1-Dec-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: The World according to Harshbarger, Lambrecht, and Lowell
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(...) While I was on Thanksgiving vacation I spent some time on this. Minor updates made to the (URL) Brickshelf gallery>. I found a place where I was overconstraining the model. Fixing the bug leads to a slightly more structurally sound model with (...) (19 years ago, 30-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(...) (URL) my 5x5x5: (URL) like great minds think alike...here's the core of my 4x4x4: (URL) (19 years ago, 30-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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G'day all, Whilst watching the Matt Damon Bourne movies recently, I began turning over in my mind if it was at all possible to create perfect cubes using LEGO. In part inspired by the famous Lowell-Lambrecht spheres, I present my (almost perfect - I (...) (19 years ago, 28-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(...) He needs a top hat ;) Spotlighted. Nice job Tim :) -Anne (19 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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(...) All I can say is WOWOWOWOWO :) and nice job :) -Anne (19 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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I'm impressed with the calculations you did there. Maybe someone will build physical model based on these instructions and then one day we can get my globe together with that one and see how close I was to reality [grin]. eric (...) ... (...) (19 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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Had a request from work to build a snowman... He's big, heavy and white: (3 URLs) I don't know how many parts this took, but it was a lot. Suggestions or improvements welcome- a hat is next, I think. Enjoy, and PLMKWYT! Tim (Smith) (19 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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(...) The mapping from these images to a sphere is a conversion to Ldraw coordinates, then a rotation based on which panel we are rendering, then a conversion from these to polar coordinates, then interpreting phi to be latitude, and theta to be (...) (19 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(...) Would you mind sharing what software or code you used to map the image to the sphere? I'm wondering how the globe would look with (URL) one of these images> mapped to the Lego palette. --Bram (19 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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It rolls quite well [grin]. I considered doing each continent a different color, but then thought that might be too distracting. eric (...) (19 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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