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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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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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)
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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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(...) was thinking about doing a small one myself, or a decent size virtual one, but I never got around to it. Did you consider doing more colors to create a 3-D mosaic? Perhaps a more realistic color scheme with forest, desert, and clouds...I (...) (19 years ago, 17-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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| | Re: Using Poser6 to generate Lego sculptures.
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In lugnet.build.sculpture, David Winkler wrote: A friend of mine was raving about how good (URL) Poser6> was. So I bought a copy. I have gotten a prototype to export from Poser6 to basic Lego outline. Most of this was just getting the model into a (...) (19 years ago, 11-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | Re: The World according to Harshbarger, Lambrecht, and Lowell
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(...) Derek is correct, the physical land mass of Antartica is actually almost the same as the USA (5.4 million sq miles vs 5.9 million sq miles). The ice shelves and ice mass are in addition to this area. Having said that, your creation is way cool (...) (19 years ago, 11-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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| | Using Poser6 to generate Lego sculptures.
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A friend of mine was raving about how good (URL) Poser6> was. So I bought a copy. I have gotten a prototype to export from Poser6 to basic Lego outline. Most of this was just getting the model into a format that could be used in the manner that I (...) (19 years ago, 10-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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| | Re: The World according to Harshbarger, Lambrecht, and Lowell
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(...) Antarctica is a negligible land mass...even though it's covered in snow and ice, I'm sure the land that is there is bigger than Madagascar. Derek (19 years ago, 9-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.sculpture)
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