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Re: The World according to Harshbarger, Lambrecht, and Lowell
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Wed, 30 Nov 2005 17:55:28 GMT
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In lugnet.build.sculpture, David Winkler wrote:
   In lugnet.build.sculpture, Bram Lambrecht wrote:
   In lugnet.announce.moc, Eric Harshbarger wrote:
  
There’s no way I could have ever built my latest creation without the earlier work of the following two LEGO guys:
  1. Bruce Lowell, creator of the first “Lowell Sphere”
  2. Bram Lambrecht, author of the web-app that allows creation of any size
I give links to their respective sites on the webpage describing my latest project:

A 15 inch GLOBE built as a Lowell Sphere:

http://www.ericharshbarger.org/lego/globe2.html

I was actually wondering how long it would be before someone built a globe. I 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 suppose that would require some mapping on the computer instead of freehand coloring.

Anyway, it looks great! Have you tested how well it rolls? --Bram

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.

I was rushing to get this done before I left for Thanksgiving. So there are still more things that could be done on it. (No Lego project is ever finished.) In particular I haven’t had time to add the cool connection pieces that Mr. Harshbarger showed using to connect the 6 sections.

The sections are hollowed out to provide walls of uniform 2 thickness.

The colors are an added constraint, but end up being used structurally.

-dw

While I was on Thanksgiving vacation I spent some time on this.

Minor updates made to the Brickshelf gallery.

I found a place where I was overconstraining the model. Fixing the bug leads to a slightly more structurally sound model with a significantly lower piece count (currently 6746 plates).

I also now display the pieces that cannot be seen from the exterior in white.

I posted a pdf of the complete instructions.

-dw



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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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