Wikipedia Puzzle Ball in real 3-D

[metaeducat10n]

So I had the idea of building a real 3D model of the Wikipedia logo in the open-source 3D modeling program Blender. Rather than tackle my first 3D task all by my lonesome, I solicited some advice on what direction to take from an internet bulletin board.

Long story short: an artist named Hazard picked up the project and made the whole model...as

Comments

[schnee]

That's neat - I'm looking forward to the final version. :)

[fangaili]

Very cool looking. :)

[philipmw]

That's gorgeous. I hope you squeeze as much utility out of this idea as possible.

[mmcirvin]

I have to admit that Rosemary Righter's zinger quoted in the article is pretty funny:

"Just above the omega, at the point where, on human heads, they used to perform frontal lobotomies, bits of the jigsaw are missing."

time will tell

[metaeducat10n]

I guess people are placing their bets, and history will judge based on the perspectives and opinions they take now. But I-personally-would not want to be one of the old-guard media maligning a project with so much potential influence on the future. I'll predict Wikipedia and its direct descendents in content to outlive any TV network or newspaper out there.

The London Times-for which Rosemary writes-uses The UK's Royal Coat of Arms for a logo. Seems like a bit of a glass house to be throwing stones from...when you've got a unicorn and the phrase "God and my right, shamed be he who thinks ill of it" representing your newspaper. Metaphors abound for monarchy, arrogance, and extinction. :P

(no offense intended to our British wiki contributors)

[artslave]

That's brilliant!

I hope some of the results will be GFDL'd, or copyrights assigned to Wikimedia (see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Logo#Policy_for_new_logos).

It would be very cool to have some high-end graphics to use in presentations, or to send to TV companies doing stories on us....