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Re: On creating life-sized sculpture
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Fri, 2 Sep 2005 18:01:17 GMT
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In lugnet.build.sculpture, David Winkler wrote:
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I presented a talk at Brickfest2005 about the theory of automated brick
layout. Slides from the talk are at:
http://brickshelf.com/gallery/happyfrosh/BrickFest2005/automatedbricklayout.pdf
I made a 5’6” sculpture of the Stanford Angel this way. (Shipping it across
the country to Brickfest was painful.)
The plans for the Stanford Angel in pdf and ldr are posted at:
http://brickshelf.com/gallery/happyfrosh/StanfordAngel/
While it’s nice to know where every brick goes, I have had a Lego sculptor
comment to me that the outline is the important piece. Along these lines I
posted the pov-ray script necessary to turn an exisiting 3d model into brick
layout. It’s in a lugnet thread on the “Stanford Bunny”.
I’ve gotten mixed feedback on whether the software that the Lego company uses
actually produces brick layout or just the outlines of the model. The Master
Builder that I talked to at NWBrickCon2004 seemed to say that they just did
outlines. I know that they get at least brick estimates of their model, but
I’m not sure whether they actually determine by software where each brick
goes.
-dw
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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
Liberty. The Statue of Liberty is all interlocked very nicely, but it is pretty
random how it is done with a lot of extra bricks. Over engineered if you ask me.
For the large models featured in the parks, they generally are no more than a
wall 2 knobs thick. We build bricks going paralell one way, then on the next
layer going the other direction. Make sense? It makes for a really stong build
with a minimum of bricks needing to be used.
Of course I never actually used this software to design or build anything during
my time with the park, but I was able to observe others who did use it. Lack of
computer skills for one reason, and the other was it was simply faster for me to
design the old fashioned way, rather than have to figure out all the stuff
needed to know to do it!
The park has only done a small percentage of it’s models that way. The program
only works well on large scupltures that are built out of basic brick and
doesn’t feature any special elements or snot building. All small, medium and
miniland models are still built with good old fashioned skill and imagination!
Bill
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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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