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In lugnet.build.sculpture, Bram Lambrecht wrote:
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Eric Harshbarger wrote:
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There’s no way I could have ever built my latest creation without the
earlier work of the following two LEGO guys:
- Bruce Lowell, creator of the first “Lowell Sphere”
- 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
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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
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I saw this and thought it was the greatest thing ever. I did my own virtual
version with
instructions.
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
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