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Re: Selling someone else's work on Ebay
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Date: 
Thu, 24 Mar 2005 15:14:47 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Anders Isaksson wrote:
snippage....

Don't forget that

- the map of the earth is quite static, it's the same for us all
- the way to produce circles and spheres with Lego have been published many
times.

Agreed.


Taking this in consideration, it would be quite difficult to produce two
individual globes that are *not* very much alike, assuming the same size.

I gotta disagree with this - Yes, if you were painting a globe on a spherical
ball, then I would agree.  But you're using Lego and imposing a rectilinear
pattern onto a spherical object.  So, you're going to have 4 flat "faces" made
up of plate/brick sides, and a "top" and a "bottom" (relative to studs),
basically the faces of the rectangular solids the globe is made from.  So the
similarity of any two globes will depend on where, geographically, you decide to
put these brick/plate faces.  And in these regards the two globes are remarkably
similar.  The faces of the rectangles seem to be put in exactly the same
locations.  There are some minor differences in coloration (one has Lake
Victoria in blue, Straits of Gibraltar are two differences I noted off the bat),
but the overall geography-to-brickography relationship is there.

more snippage...

With incomplete information it's impossible for us to judge, all we have to
go on are the (small) pictures that doesn't really prove anything, either
way.

But, in the end, I would recommend you to be careful with public
condemnation of other people...

Can't agree more with these two statements.

James Wilson
Dallas, TX
LUGNet #1783



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  Comparing Globes
 
(...) So based on your argument, both of these globes (URL) must be derived from this (10 year old) version (URL) because the 4 corners of the earth are clearly in the same location? Hmmm, I'm not completely convinced. However, I do admit the globe (...) (19 years ago, 24-Mar-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)

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  Re: Selling someone else's work on Ebay
 
(...) Don't forget that - the map of the earth is quite static, it's the same for us all - the way to produce circles and spheres with Lego have been published many times. Taking this in consideration, it would be quite difficult to produce two (...) (19 years ago, 23-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)

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