 | | Re: Lego Mosaic - Build Your Own - Gone?
|
|
(...) Sure! Would you like to test it? I'd love to get some user feedback. It is functional, but not fully polished yet. Do you have the .NET framework installed? My app is very small (~80k), and uses a managed PDF dll (~200k) to handle the output. (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
|
| |
| | Re: Lego Mosaic - Build Your Own - Gone?
|
|
(...) Were you planning on making your application public? I'd love to see it in action. The grayscale mosaic I made (URL) had to do everything via resizing with photoshop. It would have been nice to have a tool to help out. (And I'd love to see tlc (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
|
| |
| | Re: Lego Mosaic - Build Your Own - Gone?
|
|
Thanks for looking into this, David. The Tiger mosaic looks to have a pretty even distribution of colors, so I'll try to shoehorn my image into this distribution, and minimize the purchase. Here is the giant Legolas mosaic (12 panels) I am (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
|
| |
| | Re: Lego Mosaic - Build Your Own - Gone?
|
|
(...) I emailed s@h and got this reply pretty quickly: Thank you for your interest in the LEGO Mosaic. The ability to produce a customized LEGO Mosaic has been available on our website since approximately July of 2000. It has been a fun, popular way (...) (22 years ago, 30-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
|
| |
| | Re: Wow... check out this parade float!!
|
|
Mark P wrote: > But the one in the Macy*s Thanksgiving day parade was made up with fake > oversized Lego parts. Here is one of the few pictures I could find of it: > (URL) are some more: (URL) (22 years ago, 29-Jan-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build.sculpture)
|
| |
| | Re: Wow... check out this parade float!!
|
|
(...) Yup, it was a Rose Parade float. And they only allow organic material to be used on the flots. So no bricks there :( (URL) the one in the Macy*s Thanksgiving day parade was made up with fake oversized Lego parts. Here is one of the few (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jan-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build.sculpture)
|
| |
| | Re: Wow... check out this parade float!!
|
|
(...) with plant fibers (flower petals, leaves, beans, roots, whatever has the right color and texture) as the outside surface and is almost certainly glued. Pasadena, CA (home of the Rose Bowl(tm)) is not THAT far from Carlsbad, CA. Would be (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jan-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build.sculpture)
|
| |
| | Wow... check out this parade float!!
|
|
I got this from someone posting at the forums of a game site. (Thanks Darth Mawl) That must have taken FOREVER to build. Probably glued, too. (URL) (22 years ago, 29-Jan-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build.sculpture)
|
| |
| | Re: Ringo the Cat: my first attempt at LEGO sculpture
|
|
(...) ...and that's why I probably wont show this to my SO :) /Tobbe (22 years ago, 29-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
|
| |
| | Re: Ringo the Cat: my first attempt at LEGO sculpture
|
|
(...) That's funny. @8^) I'd love to see your take on a cat sculpture. Do you have the willpower to keep from turning it into a mecha cat? @8^D (...) Thanks. I took a set of photos with a plain white background first, but it didn't capture the white (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
|
| |
| | Re: Ringo the Cat: my first attempt at LEGO sculpture
|
|
(...) Took you some time to finish then? :) (...) <<snip>> (...) LOL! (...) Bummer, the video cam should always be keept ready for launch :) (...) I don't think he would approach another obecjt with such care. Reminds me of our cat that was (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
|
| |
| | Re: Ringo the Cat: my first attempt at LEGO sculpture
|
|
(...) Those are dark gray antennae. It would have been more accurate to use white antennae, but I don't have any, and the only person on Bricklink who has them is in the UK, so I knew they wouldn't get here in time. I'm pretty happy with how the (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
|
| |
| | Re: Ringo the Cat: my first attempt at LEGO sculpture
|
|
(...) SNIP (...) Very accurate & simply done-captures the look successfully. Are those clear antennae for whiskers, and if so, what set(s) are they from? Jeff (22 years ago, 29-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
|
| |
| | Re: Ringo the Cat: my first attempt at LEGO sculpture
|
|
Very nice! The way the ears are done is really neat! Now Cindy is all over me saying "You gotta make me! one now!" So I can take it to work too! As she cheers in the stands behind! Nice pictures too. (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
|
| |
| | Re: Prepackaged Lego Mosaic - Color distribution?
|
|
Will Chapman wrote: > Does anyone know the color distribution in the (4) prepackaged mosaic sets? > #K34434 - Tiger see: (URL) J. Spencer Rezkalla (22 years ago, 29-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
|
| |
| | Re: Ringo the Cat: my first attempt at LEGO sculpture
|
|
(...) Looks great--you really caught the essence of the real cat (as seen in the comparison shot) in the pose that you chose to model. Derek (22 years ago, 28-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
|
| |
| | Re: Prepackaged Lego Mosaic - Color distribution?
|
|
(...) I'm planning on getting one of each just to do that very thing and will share the results when it happens. Will probably be 2-4 weeks though so if anyone beats me to it or has them handy then speak up! John #388 (22 years ago, 29-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
|
| |
| | Prepackaged Lego Mosaic - Color distribution?
|
|
Does anyone know the color distribution in the (4) prepackaged mosaic sets? I'm getting antsy to build my custom mosaic, and since they do not appear to be offering custom kits, I thought I'd try to see if the prepackaged sets would suffice. I tried (...) (22 years ago, 28-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
|
| |
| | Minifig sculpture renderings
|
|
After building a sculpture of a minifig ((URL) wanted to make more. However, since it could take a while to get enough bricks together, I decided to see what a smaller scale would look like. So I designed an LDraw version: (URL) I'll be able to (...) (22 years ago, 28-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad.ray)
|
| |
| | Re: Ringo the Cat: my first attempt at LEGO sculpture
|
|
(...) Yeah, the exaggerated size of the head compared to the body and the little pink cat smile provide the charicature elements, I suppose. (...) LEGO Ringo is a lot better about holding still for photos, it's true. @8^) Our secret for (...) (22 years ago, 28-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
|
