Stained Glass Windows
Stained Glass Windows
I am taking my Cathedral down tonight, I’m out of 1*n bricks and a friend noted where are the walls?
I have a notion; I have clear transparencies for my laser jet. I have 2 color Epson stink jets.
Most of the walls in medieval Cathedrals are stain glass windows. LEGO rose windows using translucent LEGOs don’t inspire me.
Say I take photo of a stain glass window that I do like. Open in Corel Paint or Photo Shop. Scale it and print it out on a transparent stock and cut it out.
I could build a cathedral with stain glass windows to die for.
Taste varies; others may not like my windows but may like my ideas for their own MOC?
I have a notion; I have clear transparencies for my laser jet. I have 2 color Epson stink jets.
Most of the walls in medieval Cathedrals are stain glass windows. LEGO rose windows using translucent LEGOs don’t inspire me.
Say I take photo of a stain glass window that I do like. Open in Corel Paint or Photo Shop. Scale it and print it out on a transparent stock and cut it out.
I could build a cathedral with stain glass windows to die for.
Taste varies; others may not like my windows but may like my ideas for their own MOC?
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Oh yes, I would like to see it as well. I haven't checked, but I would imagine clear 1x2 bricks would be much cheaper in bulk than equal volume (not quantity) of 1x1 transparent plates of various colors. I never thought to do it, but this might actually help me out (I've been planning a small cathedral myself, actually a replica of the church I attend).
Heck, I could go so far as to actually photograph and print out my church's stain glass windows if this idea works... talk about accuracy
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Heck, I could go so far as to actually photograph and print out my church's stain glass windows if this idea works... talk about accuracy
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The 1*4*5 half arches have lips or ribs underneath one could use to locate a film. As much as I like churches and stain glass I see other applications.
Everyone seems to have their own motif. Say someone likes that painting of dogs playing poker. Once printed on a transparency it would be a stain glass window.
I ordered some “inverted arches” PN 30099 today, combined with PN 2339 one can make a BIG circle in a wall and make a “rose window” above the church entrance.
Not everyone builds churches, this isn’t “classic-church” maybe you guys can find other uses as well?
Everyone seems to have their own motif. Say someone likes that painting of dogs playing poker. Once printed on a transparency it would be a stain glass window.
I ordered some “inverted arches” PN 30099 today, combined with PN 2339 one can make a BIG circle in a wall and make a “rose window” above the church entrance.
Not everyone builds churches, this isn’t “classic-church” maybe you guys can find other uses as well?
I have read & re-read the David Macaulay book Cathedral a few times recently. It helps to know a little cathedral architecture before I try to build one. I am still inspired by a few really large churches/ cathedrals on brick shelf.
After re-reading David Macaulay I think I can use 2*n bricks in a lot more places. So I ordered 6 dozen more 1*4*5 arches, 5 large 48*48 base plates and $250 worth of 1*n bricks & misc and a ton of red roof slopes.
One can not order talent. But I am not yet giving up either.
I found this example particularly inspiring:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=27760
I think if the wall below the windows is 2 pin wide, I can locate the bottom between a exterior slope and an interior tile.
After re-reading David Macaulay I think I can use 2*n bricks in a lot more places. So I ordered 6 dozen more 1*4*5 arches, 5 large 48*48 base plates and $250 worth of 1*n bricks & misc and a ton of red roof slopes.
One can not order talent. But I am not yet giving up either.
I found this example particularly inspiring:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=27760
I think if the wall below the windows is 2 pin wide, I can locate the bottom between a exterior slope and an interior tile.
For future reference, this is a list of large scale Cathedral projects I located on Brickshelf.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=13647
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=71731
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=13290
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=95078
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=500762
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=549394
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=7863
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=150909
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=13647
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=71731
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=13290
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=95078
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=500762
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=549394
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=7863
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=150909
I think it will not work, unless you redraw it (in another layer with a photograph as a fixed background).
Pictures rarely show stain glass windows at right angles to the picture's surface (if possible at all because of the effects of perspective), and you have to keep in mind it's something transculent recorded in a opaque image, which is then printed on something transculent again. So, i think it may look rather awkward. If you're using a photograph i think you'd rather just print it onto paper instead of a solid sheet.
But, I think if you'd redraw the image with colorful, solid colors, and then print it onto a transparent sheet, it may look really great.
Pictures rarely show stain glass windows at right angles to the picture's surface (if possible at all because of the effects of perspective), and you have to keep in mind it's something transculent recorded in a opaque image, which is then printed on something transculent again. So, i think it may look rather awkward. If you're using a photograph i think you'd rather just print it onto paper instead of a solid sheet.
But, I think if you'd redraw the image with colorful, solid colors, and then print it onto a transparent sheet, it may look really great.
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Don't forget this massive recreation of the Cologne cathedral, recently unveiled by Jurgen at a German AFOL convention (1000SteineLand):
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=90208
And this of the Santa Maria della Sallute in Venice by Holger Matthes:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=89644
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Don't forget this massive recreation of the Cologne cathedral, recently unveiled by Jurgen at a German AFOL convention (1000SteineLand):
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=90208
And this of the Santa Maria della Sallute in Venice by Holger Matthes:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=89644
Bruce
Wow!!
Why can’t I find those why I search Brickshelf?
Those are great! Way beyond my skills & budget but I’m not to proud to pick up ideas.
Thank you Bruce,
Nice dome too, I was looking for examples of domes too.
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Teup,
Yes I understand some of the issues, I collect photos of stain glass windows and getting a photo sans perspective seems impossible.
I may borrow your “plan B”
>But, I think if you'd redraw the image with colorful, solid colors, and then print it onto a transparent sheet, it may look really great.
For now all my blank transparencies have a blue cast, I would need to hit up office depot.
I think I can find good photos of Rose windows and that may be my first attempt,
Thanks Teup,
Why can’t I find those why I search Brickshelf?
Those are great! Way beyond my skills & budget but I’m not to proud to pick up ideas.
Thank you Bruce,
Nice dome too, I was looking for examples of domes too.
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Teup,
Yes I understand some of the issues, I collect photos of stain glass windows and getting a photo sans perspective seems impossible.
I may borrow your “plan B”
>But, I think if you'd redraw the image with colorful, solid colors, and then print it onto a transparent sheet, it may look really great.
For now all my blank transparencies have a blue cast, I would need to hit up office depot.
I think I can find good photos of Rose windows and that may be my first attempt,
Thanks Teup,
Do you have Adobe Illustrator or anything (if you don't, don't bother getting it, it's rather nasty to learn )? Or some other vector based program? I think that will work great when drawing over a photograph, since all lego prints are vectors instead of pixel bitmaps (imagine a pixel image on a fig's head ), and it makes it really clean and stylized, lego-like, i predict... i hope... whatever you do, I really want to see the result
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