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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)
| | | | Re: The World according to Harshbarger, Lambrecht, and Lowell
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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)
| | | | Re: The World according to Harshbarger, Lambrecht, and Lowell
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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)
| | | | Re: The World according to Harshbarger, Lambrecht, and Lowell
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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)
| | | | Re: The World according to Harshbarger, Lambrecht, and Lowell
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| (...) I saw this and thought it was the greatest thing ever. I did my own virtual version with (URL). (URL) Plate Lowell Globe>> I followed Mr. Harshbarger's lead and based it on a 48 stud diameter Lowell Sphere. The land masses come from the (URL) (...) (19 years ago, 21-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.general, FTX)
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