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David V. Winkler / sculpture / sittingMan /

The Sitting Man sculpture was based on a model from the commercial package Poser. I then used software that I developed to translate this human figure into slices and then into Lego plans. These Lego plans were then iteratively adjusted to match the exact number of Legos that I had at home when I started the project.

The Legos that I had on hand were:

// 1x1 1x2 1x3 1x4 1x6 1x8 2x2 2x3 2x4 2x6 Blue 518 2423 359 1546 248 7 1082 1835 96 5 Green 357 1766 15 274 28 0 793 142 1077 0 Black 677 541 76 881 1085 28 863 211 75 1 Red 5542 2909 2329 1663 157 936 1173 1152 727 223 White 328 563 1203 661 95 58 1359 22 65 29 Yellow 437 1747 1 838 247 274 2111 1091 757 1456

I tried to fit the model into 90% of each of these.

The final model used:

// count 1x1 1x2 1x3 1x4 1x6 1x8 2x2 2x3 2x4 2x6 Red 390 265 260 90 47 14 12 38 20 46 Yellow 378 872 0 741 190 237 236 961 434 271

My roommate went on vacation. This was the perfect opportunity to take over the living room for building. A week later and a full season of CSI Miami and King of the Hill, and I had the sitting man.

Like all of my sculptures, this model is hollow.

Eric Raptosh visited Seattle in February 2006. He took photos of the Sitting Man sculpture in my living room:
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/happyfrosh/Sculptures/SittingGuy/Raptosh/r06b10a03k112_mw.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/happyfrosh/Sculptures/SittingGuy/Raptosh/r06b10a11k116_mw.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/happyfrosh/Sculptures/SittingGuy/Raptosh/r06b10a14k125_mw.jpg

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