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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.

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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!)