Author Topic: Blockland's Largest, Most Accurate US Flag- Under Improvement  (Read 7565 times)

Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

Using stats from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Us_flag#Specifications), supported by USflag.org (http://www.usflag.org/flag.specs.html), I was able to apply the specs for a 1×1.9 unit flag to a 1,000×1,900 stud flag in Blockland!

This means this is the largest, most accurate United States flag in Blockland.

No guess work went into this thing, not even for the stars!

The closest thing I came to guesswork here was using Microsoft Paint to create a circle with a diameter of 62 studs for a template for the stars.

Here is the full flag:



For an idea of this flag's size, here is my avatar on a section of the flag:



Not changing position in any way, here is my avatar on the full flag:



This flag also ended up in a position where it loads cleanly in the Bedroom as will as with Titanic.

Here is the flag's underside in the Bedroom:



Another special thing about its flag is that it has its own color slot for a unique pallet, containing dark red, white, and navy blue.

Brick count: 19,173

Some specifications:

Hoist (width): 1,000 studs
Fly (length): 1,900 studs
Length of a thin stripe: 1,140 studs
Width of a stripe: 77, except the middle (7th) one, which is 76
Diameter of a star: 62 studs


Please rate & review
« Last Edit: September 13, 2009, 06:37:31 PM by RMS Gigantic »

Cool.

Take that Spation! Captain America.

Cool! How long did it take you to make that?


Cool! How long did it take you to make that?
5 weeks. The stripes took 2 or 3 nights.


awesome.

i wonder what it looks like when its being loaded
and likewise, being cleared.

each little brick flying up in some weird pattern lol

Note to self: make larger flag with 64x cubes

Oh, wow, first time I've seen Rot make a post since I've been here. :l

On-Topic: Quite shweet.

awesome.

i wonder what it looks like when its being loaded
and likewise, being cleared.

each little brick flying up in some weird pattern lol
I could probably make a video if you want. The stripes were macro'd, so they are rather uniform. The union, however, is far more random.


Btw, I am looking for ratings, too :D
« Last Edit: June 12, 2009, 02:47:09 AM by RMS Gigantic »

<insert british anti-Americanism comment here>

Note to self: make larger flag with 64x cubes
You would never be able to zoom out and fully see it. I know that for a fact. Zoom out too far with this thing as is, and a circle starts to appear around it.

<insert amazement of Win>