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A little something I cooked up. (URL) That's just the tip of the mountain. -Mike Petrucelli (19 years ago, 21-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.castle, FTX) !!
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(...) Hi Erik, I'm not too sure about that because I was too busy building =P, but I managed to get an answer from our designer who happens to be a trained architect =) "There were no special techniques required, but I first counted and measure the (...) (19 years ago, 18-Sep-05, to lugnet.loc.sg, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.events, FTX)
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(...) That is nice! Were there any special techniques used to build the curves? It does look like regular square grid - and large enough to be smooth. -Erik (19 years ago, 17-Sep-05, to lugnet.loc.sg, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.events, FTX)
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Hello LEGO fans, Last weekend, members from a Singapore Lego Fan Group, S0937FG, came together to recreate 2 quarants of the Roman Colosseum out of LEGO bricks. The installation was done on-site in the Asian Civilisation Museum(ACM),Singapore.The (...) (19 years ago, 17-Sep-05, to lugnet.loc.sg, lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.events, FTX) !!
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(...) I know it would be difficult, but I really wish TLC would make available for sale the plans to some of the park and Miniland sculptures, especially the smaller sail/powerboats and the Combine Harvester... Paul Sinasohn (19 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(...) Hi all, This is (or at least was, in 2004) called Brick Builder. I asked about it in the CAD newsgroup here: (URL) But I got no replies.. There's a presentation board showing how the software works on display at the Model Shop in LLCA. I have (...) (19 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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(...) The Lego software does in fact only give the outline on a lego grid rather than where each brick goes. It works pretty good most of the time. When building large scale models, it is a bit of a different way of building than the Staue of (...) (19 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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It depends on what the sculpture is going to be used for. If it will be on display where random people will touch it you'll probably want to have a metal skeleton within. For the 5'6" (URL) angel sculpture> I got away with it being exactly 2 bricks (...) (19 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(...) I presented a talk at Brickfest2005 about the theory of automated brick layout. Slides from the talk are at: (URL) I made a 5'6" sculpture of the Stanford Angel this way. (Shipping it across the country to Brickfest was painful.) The plans for (...) (19 years ago, 2-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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(...) Hey, I am not sure about MLCAD type stuff as I have never used it. But the Lego company uses a program called Legoizer (although I think it has changed names since I left the company). Essentially, you build a 3D version of what you want in 3D (...) (19 years ago, 1-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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