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Industrialscape 2 # 38 ... (c)rebfoto by rebfoto

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the engine and other components in a reverse engineering exercise ....

in my Industrialscape Series 2 ... Pic # 38 ...

Taken on Aug 23, 2019

Thanks for your visits, faves, invites and comments ... (c)rebfoto

A Manor on an express freight rattles past a signal box by The Brick Engineer

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(Manor is reverse-engineered from the build by [https://www.flickr.com/photos/technoandrew] )

Self Portrait No. 42 a-la Dan Winters by John Adkins

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There is a discussion going on in the Flickr Strobist group about a portrait of Tom Hanks that the amazing Dan Winters did. Everyone is trying to reverse engineer it so I thought it would be a good learning experiment to try to duplicate it.

First off, I am definitely not Dan Winters, this is just my effort at trying to reproduce his work.

You can read the discussion and the portrait of Tom Hanks by clicking HERE

Strobist: This was tough!!! ...and its not nearly as good as his, but here goes...

My background light was a Nikon SB-600 at 1/4 power with a Stoffen diffuser directly behind me. For fill I used an SB-800 camera right in a Lumiquest SBIII at 1/32 power and in very close (just out of camera view) about a foot above my head and angled down as low as I could get it. The key light was (are you ready for this?) another SB-800 with an 8" snoot, through a white shoot thru umbrella at 1/8 power. All strobes were triggered with CyberSyncs.

I've never tried to use a snooted light through a shoot thru umbrella, but using just a snoot or a grid produced too hard of a light and the fall off on the edges were too sharp.

For fill on the camera left side, I used a silver reflector to just kick a little light back in there. You can see the highlight on my right ear (camera left).

In post I adjusted the color of the background and my skin tones (slightly). I also removed a ton of cat hair from my coat!

In the end, I learned a new trick and had a lot of fun trying to reverse engineer a very talented photographer's work. I may have cussed a few times too, but I don't remember. ;)

Read the full Blog Post

Inverse Lowell Sphere IRL least collisions 3D solution by infrapinklizzard

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This is a reverse engineering of Joshua Christenson's inverted Lowell sphere. I have endeavored to improve it by removing stud collisions at the eight corners. I only partially succeeded.

My earlier attempt (two years ago) had six corners with two studs colliding and two with none colliding. www.flickr.com/photos/infrapinklizzard/16967306339/

This one has only four corners with two studs colliding and four corners with none colliding. This is the theoretical best I can find with the current Lego pieces. Until they come out with a 1x2 plate with one stud (but not centered).

This uses two pieces each of three different units. The black, blue and red plates are to distinguish them and to give a handy reference to where studs are in the corners. If you put the red and blue units around the "equator", there will be no stud conflicts until you add the black units (which correspond to the two pure black sides in this photo: www.flickr.com/photos/infrapinklizzard/16534520513/ ).

Then each of the 2 studs on each black unit will cause a collision giving the four corners with collisions. The other four will remain collision free since we're just adding a tile to those corners. This has the effect of giving each axis of the "sphere" one collision-free pole and one pole with a collision.

My original solution from 2 years ago had two different units which were mirror images of each other. This one has three units. If you make six copies of the black unit, it can also be put together. That one, however, has three-stud collisions in four corners, and no studs at all in the other four.

Manolo Polo's Galaxy by Jorge Jaramillo

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Last year during the Colombian convention, I took this picture of a model exhibited there which I liked a lot, but the model didn't have an identification card.

I always wanted to fold it, but hadn't tried until earlier this week when I was able to reverse engineer it. Folded from a square of curious paper of 30 x 30 cm.

I had called it Ninja Star on Steroids since i didn't know what name its creator had given it.

Betamax by Steve Jurvetson

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Household appliances become less mysterious when you take them apart. In older consumer electronics gadgets, you can often find a treasure trove of wiring harnesses that make the component connections easier to decipher. The Disco Age was also the Golden Age of Wires. A 1970s Trinitron or VCR harbors an inner beauty. Modern multi-layer PCBs and highly integrated circuits are a black box of their own. The common VCR or an old hard drive is a wonderful starting point as they are full of electro-mechanical devices and actuators.

— From my GeekDad submission, entitled Peering Into the Black Box.

The mechanical counter alone is a gem… with all of its miniature workings are on display, lending to experimental play and reverse-engineering.

Cover by Paul Soulellis

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A quick re-creation of the cover of Unimark's NYC Transit Authority Graphics Manual as found on page 40 of Paul Shaw's excellent book Helvetica and the New York City Subway System.

More

soulellis.com/2010/02/a_modular_system_has_been_devi.html

Psychiatry: An Industry of Death (now in Sydney) by Giovanni Portelli

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Caught this interesting sticker & poster near UTS. A few minutes later, a Sydney Council worker pulled it down, as well as the other scientology posters on the other corners.

The CCHR is a not so well known front group for scientology and merge their false beliefs of the psychiatric industry (see wikipedia's entry on scientology & psychiatry & xenu) and their unsubstantiated history of the world. When Tom Cruise said, "You don't know the history of psychiatry - I do" he was probably referencing the 75 million year old event.

But pay close attention to the sticker...the Merchants of Chaos? Looks like the resistance has formed!

The sticker advises, "Give your local evil scientologist the finger! - Another useful tip from the Sydney Merchants of Chaos - Working for you!"

Inside Out Anger by Huan0brick

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'This is a reverse-engineering, made in 2016.

All credits goes to Angus MacLane

Link to original model: www.flickr.com/photos/27826007@N05/19037306706

REC IV Week 5 Solution by Bill Ward by Bill Ward

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My solution to the Reverse-Engineering Contest IV Week 5 challenge

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