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Re: Whose angel sculpture was that?
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Fri, 26 Aug 2005 17:11:27 GMT
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In lugnet.events.brickfest, David Winkler wrote:
   In lugnet.events.brickfest, Jordan Bradford wrote:
   In lugnet.events.brickfest, Wayne R. Hussey wrote:
   In lugnet.events.brickfest, Joe Strout wrote:
   There was a life-sized angel statue in the Sculpture room. I read the card, but failed to write down (or remember) the name of the builder. Does anyone know who that was, and how to contact him?

I’d like to put a picture of it in BrickWiki (on the Sculpture page), but I need permission first.

Thanks,
- Joe
That Angel was created by David Winkler, who is also our NWBrickCon 2005 Art/Sculpture/Mosaic Coordinator. If you wish to contact him, fill out and send the “Contact Us” link at NWBrickCon and we’ll help you connect.

Wayne

Wasn’t that sculpture built as a test of some software he had written? I believe you give it a 3D model and it generates building instructions for you.

Yup.

I gave a talk on the software at Brickfest, “Automated Brick Layout” I posted the slides from that talk in my brickshelf folder: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/happyfrosh/BrickFest2005/automatedbricklayout.pdf

Please feel free to post photos.

Thank you!

-dw

I missed your presentation that day. How technical was it? You probably explained NP-complete briefly, and I’m guessing you didn’t go into the computer science part of everything except what was necessary. I’m curious if you have a more technical version of a presentation I could see -- I’d at least like to know how the lossy/lossless algorithms work in psuedo code. Also, is this subject worthy of an ACM article? That would be cool.

Thanks!



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(...) Oh me too! I wanted to ask but figured I might be the only one so I'm so happy you asked. I'd love to see a technical account, I'm particularly interested in the combinatorics of the problem (if any were considered too) but all of it is (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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(...) (URL) NP-complete> is a class of difficult problems in Computer Science. In general it's a problem too difficult to be solved exactly. A well-known example is the (URL) traveling salesman problem>. In my talk I sort of glossed over this. While (...) (19 years ago, 29-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)

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(...) Yup. I gave a talk on the software at Brickfest, "Automated Brick Layout" I posted the slides from that talk in my brickshelf folder: (URL) Please feel free to post photos. Thank you! -dw (19 years ago, 22-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)

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