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Subject:	Re: The World according to Harshbarger, Lambrecht, and Lowell
Newsgroups:	lugnet.build.sculpture
Date:	Tue, 22 Nov 2005 02:45:16 GMT
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In lugnet.build.sculpture, David Winkler wrote:

I saw this and thought it was the greatest thing ever. I did my own virtual version with instructions.

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 Etopo5 database provided by the NOAA.

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 one of these images mapped to the Lego palette.
--Bram

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		Re: The World according to Harshbarger, Lambrecht, and Lowell
(...) 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)

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		Re: The World according to Harshbarger, Lambrecht, and Lowell
(...) 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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