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Re: Lego globe...
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lugnet.cad
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Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:36:43 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, David Eaton wrote:
> I guess that depends on whether you're talking about a 3-D LEGO globe or a 2-D
> LEGO map? I'm not sure I quite follow exactly what you're trying to do.
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> I played around a while ago and got a program that would build an LDraw globe
> based on a 2-D map projection of the continents and so forth. Basically,
> transferring between the two turns into a complex math problem. So if you took
> the latitude/longitude of a city, you could figure out which "brick" on the
> surface of the sphere that related to, and make it change colors or whatever.
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> DaveE
I think it was just a silly question, sorry. I meant somewhere in between the
3-D globe and 2-D map... but you can't really apply a square map to a round
globe without squishing things. :)
-Mike
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| (...) I guess that depends on whether you're talking about a 3-D LEGO globe or a 2-D LEGO map? I'm not sure I quite follow exactly what you're trying to do. I played around a while ago and got a program that would build an LDraw globe based on a 2-D (...) (14 years ago, 29-Mar-11, to lugnet.cad)
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