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Discovering Yerth, the Lego Globe Project: Day 1

I’m doing it

For my birthday, we picked up the globe from the Lego store, and all the way home I was planning and considering challenges. When to start? How to start? What planning is needed? What scaling will I need to do? What additional parts will I need? How do I pick them? What program(s) will I use to plan the map? How do I chart it out? So many more questions swirling about in my head.

The biggest hurdle in my mind is this: The original map was generated from a fractal world generator, but at the time it only had Square projection and some of the weirder, less useful ones. Worse, even though I recorded the seed and other details, the processing seems to have changed behind the scenes, so attempts to generate the map again have failed.

So I only have a high-res square projection of the world… which was fine to convert it onto the wall map and for the purposes of hand-drawn regional maps… but now I’ll have to figure out the projection onto a globe. Then there’s inventorying the available parts, figuring out the map projection onto the plates, which parts, colors and so forth to represent the land masses… it’s going to be a lot of work.

So, with a lot more other non-Lego work to do, I settled on sorting out some of the math, getting started on scaling the map, since this will give me some idea of what follow up planning I need to do. I pulled the instruction book out, flipped through it to count the longitudinal (vertical) sections, count and calculate the studs available and then start calculating the scale.

I'm going to work on it slowly, and like I said, I've got other stuff I'm working on, such as releasing the next 2 coloring books: D is for Dragon 3: A Smagust 2022 Coloring Book and D is for Dungeon 2; The Demiplane of Dungeons Part II (Coming to an Amazon website near you!)

[bricksxbooks]

I would like to see some more details on this, as well as more color, but it's still a very cool map.

I support this product idea on LEGO Ideas, and you should, too!

[spoopdeedoop]

not arguing with a lady in pretty dresses whatever u say beautiful!!

[doctorsiren]

I’m still in the process, but I’m making progress

[theplatypusblue]

hey look its cole i love cole wow i hope nothing explodes out his scar.

[lumidotexe]

my parts for the "Macaque" reanimated project!

[oh-gh0st]

i need them to EXPLODE

[jamswhams]

i feel like you can tell i draw one of these guys more than the other lmao sorry monkey king

[crosswiredcrafts]

I made a fantasy-style map of the Matoran Universe that YOU can get as a poster at my store! My life is going great

[ninjago-reanimated]

Amazing fanart by @tabithatabby123 for the collab!

We’re making progress! Though some parts are claimed, with a ton of parts left please apply if you are interested!

[swagginmun]

Chapter 1: Regroup and Rebound Page 33 Which, I was able to steal borrow pretty easily, might I add! Start || Previous || Next

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Discovering Yerth: Lego Globe Project

Day 2: Plotting

Now that I’m finished with D is for Dragon 3 and D is for Dungeon 2, I’ve been kind of flailing on what to work on next. I didn’t want to get too deep into another Naghatan Fisk book and it’s too early to start Smaugust, so, now what? Then I remembered this project. 2023 was a bit of a ride and 2024 did not start out easy, but now I’m finally in a place to dedicate some time and attention.

So what’s first?

Well, I’ve done the basic math already, counting the number of studs per panel, overall, and compared the compression per latitude to the lego wall map that I’ve already built (I'll talk about it more in a later post). So next I need to build a grid and overlay it against the world map, then select which studs are not represented on the globe. There are a few things I need to be careful of.

The globe has a parabolic plate on the poles that takes up an estimated 5 studs worth of the latitudes that are displayed on the wall map. These spaces must be accounted for.

The Lego globe is set up in a series of 16 wedges that narrow as they approach the poles, and I must sort out where those wedges fall on the map to help minimize distortion.

I’m sure there’s more I’m failing to think of or account for. But I’m sure I’ll run into them as I go.

[writer-room]

One among many things I love about Dragons Risings writing is that they're so unapologetic about making the original team very cool, but also absolute dorks.

It's just kinda refreshing to me? Like, yeah, sure, Lloyd's the super-awesome Green Ninja who's a descendant of God, Kai could set the world on fire if he wanted, Nya does not hesitate and was the ocean that one time, Zane will casually mention the most insane shit he did on a whim, Cole has a lava and rock monster form, etc, but like...they're also losers. Lloyd gets bullied constantly and tries to explain what a crab is, Kai has so much intelligence but so little wisdom at all given times, Nya has a 'shit happens' attitude as if she is not actively failing through this shit happening, Zane talks to a broom with Pixal's face on it, and Cole has it together the most by being a 9-to-5 dad with a boyfriend who he 100% believed was his power crux.

They're just people, y'know? Saving the world a hundred times over doesn't mean they're not still 20-something nerds who've been stuck doing this since they were teenagers. One cannot erase the time they had bad boy doppelgangers for like two minutes. Or had to raise their teacher. Or had the weirdest relationship drama. Or were huge video game and tech geeks.

And Dragons Rising isn't afraid to let them be that. To acknowledge, yeah, objectively, they're cool as hell, but to also admit that they're just kinda fucking around and finding out. It's a wonder what consistent and likeable characterization can do, who woulda thought?

[irodimww]

watch or discombobulate (in NOT PEACE.)

am super thankful to be part of this super awesome Multi Animators Project with a bunch of LMK fans !!! we reanimated the entire episode of "Macaque" from Lego Monkie Kid Season 1 !!!! (WATCH IT. /silly)

Map ran by Poj on Twitter dot com !!!

[chrispy-chimkin]

Ninja Teachers 4/4

Finally we have Zane! Decided to do both his human and titanium look, do you think a nindroid would do well teaching biology though? 🤔❄️