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  Re: Star Wars Battle Droid  
From: andrel
Date: 8 Dec 2004 16:29:18
Message: <41B771A9.6020503@hotmail.com>
Mike Thorn wrote:
> Ross wrote:
> 
>> thats funny. Reminds me of a book I saw this week at a little 
>> boutique. It
>> was The story of Genesis from the Bible, done with photos of lego 
>> creations
>> and one or two sentance passages. It was pretty funny. The lego creations
>> were very well done.
>>
>> you've made a nice looking model.
> 
> 
> I've heard of that book (I forget the guy's name)...just remember that 
> he took some artistic liberties and he was careful to choose only the 
> stories where people were doing something wrong.
> 
> There is actually a 3D modeller for LEGO available at 
> http://www.ldraw.org. There's some conversion necessary to get the file 
> formats right, but other than that it's pretty straightforward (drag and 
> drop, mostly). There's a little app there you can download that converts 
> the LDRAW format in straight POV (only primitives and no CSG, 
> unfortunately, which results in some very long files). From there it's 
> all yours.
> 
There are also the straigh POV libraries by Anton Raves at
http://www.antonraves.com

> I hope to be posting a number of LDraw renders in the near future. :)
> 
> ~Mike


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