Rendering Lego Figures
Published on 21 Mar 2007 at 3:28 am.
3 Comments.
Filed under Fun, Lego, Software.
A couple of weeks ago, I described the free software package called LDraw that with MLCad and POV-Ray allows you to design Lego creations and illustrate them with ray tracing software. The software actually goes far beyond this, as MLCad is a real Computer Aided Design program that allows you to save the steps so that you can automatically generate instructions for your Lego creations. It also generates a Parts List so that you know which parts you will need beforehand.
I was playing around with it this weekend, and made one of the spaceships described in a good online tutorial. Then I rendered him with POV-Ray, and then overlaid the Lego image over a lovely picture of Saturn. The result is: Our Hero Races Past Saturn
Go ahead and laugh… that’s the whole point!
Kevin Knuth
Albany NY
Lego Insanity » Rendering Lego Figures on 21 Mar 2007 at 6:30 am: 1
[...] more here: drknuth March 21st, 2007 at 3:28 [...]
Online Cortex » Lego Animations on 4 Apr 2007 at 1:23 am: 2
[...] In the meantime, I spent the early evening figuring out how to use the LDraw tools to draw and animate Lego constructions. To start, I simply made a figure of the four angled liftarm pieces using MLCAD. There are some nice tutorials for using MLCAD that I described in a previous posting. [...]
Online Cortex » Lego Geneva Mechanism on 14 Apr 2007 at 3:40 am: 3
[...] Above is an image of my design rendered using the Lego CAD LDraw tools that I discussed in earlier posts. [...]