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

Our Hero Races Past Saturn

Go ahead and laugh… that’s the whole point!
Kevin Knuth
Albany NY

3 Comments to ‘Rendering Lego Figures’:

  1. Lego Insanity » Rendering Lego Figures on 21 Mar 2007 at 6:30 am: 1

    [...] more here: drknuth March 21st, 2007 at 3:28 [...]

  2. 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. [...]

  3. 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. [...]

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