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Re: New Mosaic: Map of the USA
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lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.events.brickfest
Date: 
Sun, 12 Jan 2003 22:21:44 GMT
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Adrian Drake writes:
Here's my latest project, which I've been working on for two months now.
It's a large scale mosaic of a map of the United States of America.  the
reasoning behind building this was I wanted to bring it to the various
fests, and allow people to place 1x1 dots or something similar on the map to
show where they're from.  Since it weighs so much, I'm unsure if I can get
it to Brickswest, as shipping would be pretty expensive.  It WILL be coming
to Brickfest though, since I can drive there.

Anyway, enough blabbing.

http://www.brickfrenzy.com/sculpture_map.html

Adrian
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http://www.brickfrenzy.com

Adrian,

Wow!  The map looks huge on my screen, it must look gigantic in person.  The
boundary lines between states look very smooth and fluid.

It would be very neat to see at the various conventions.  Since I won't be
at them, I guess I would fit into
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/tremor/Sculpture/map/map_10.jpg this image.

Very creative method of attaching the baseplates.

The image of the stacked sections really illustrates how large this must
really be.

Great job,
-Kevin



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  Re: New Mosaic: Map of the USA
 
(...) One of the benefits of building big is the pixellation of the edges between the states is minimized. That, and I spent a great deal of time while I was making the images tweaking the borders so they looked good. (...) If I really felt the urge (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jan-03, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.events.brickfest)

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Here's my latest project, which I've been working on for two months now. It's a large scale mosaic of a map of the United States of America. the reasoning behind building this was I wanted to bring it to the various fests, and allow people to place (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.events.brickfest) !! 

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