{"id":1005,"date":"2012-01-07T16:16:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T16:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/07\/howto-make-a-custom-snowglobe-of-your-house\/"},"modified":"2012-01-07T16:16:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-07T16:16:00","slug":"howto-make-a-custom-snowglobe-of-your-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/07\/howto-make-a-custom-snowglobe-of-your-house\/","title":{"rendered":"HOWTO make a custom snowglobe of your house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/9NAJPwVdKUw\/howto-make-a-custom-snowglobe.html\">HOWTO make a custom snowglobe of your house<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/craphound.com\/images\/sidebyside.jpg?w=625\"><\/p>\n<p>A clever fellow called Qarl figured out how to make a custom snowglobe of his family&#8217;s house as a surprise gift for his wife. He auto-modelled it in Google Sketchup, cleaned it up some, added a snowy hill, sent the model to a 3D printing company, and popped it in a snowglobe kit. Voila!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<\/p>\n<p>1) order a custom snowglobe kit. ebay has a bunch to choose from. try to find one that tells you its exact dimensions so you can size your model before the globe arrives in the mail.<\/p>\n<p>2) take pictures of your house. you probably want at least eight circling the perimeter. more can\u2019t hurt.<\/p>\n<p>i also grabbed a top-down view of my house from google\u2019s satellite maps. it\u2019s very low-res, but the house is going to be tiny, so it works out.<\/p>\n<p>3) build a cg model of your house.<\/p>\n<p>i tried a handful of the \u201cautomatic\u201d systems to build models. microsoft\u2019s photosynth, autodesk\u2019s 123D catch, a couple lesser known programs. none of them worked well enough to produce a final model &#8211; they did well for 75% of the model, but then horribly mutilated the last 25%.<\/p>\n<p>in the end i went with google\u2019s sketchup &#8211; its photo match tools are great for building models from photos of buildings.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.qarl.com\/qLab\/?p=77\">the weather outside is frightful <\/a><\/p>\n<p>(<i>via <a href=\"http:\/\/superpunch.blogspot.com\/\">Super Punch<\/a><\/i>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=581d9661c118cee125fb1fac80b74a0f&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=581d9661c118cee125fb1fac80b74a0f&#038;p=1\"><\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/segment-pixel.invitemedia.com\/pixel?code=TechCons&#038;partnerID=167&#038;key=segment\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/insight.adsrvr.org\/track\/evnt\/?ct=0:dupdmqp&#038;adv=wouzn4v&#038;fmt=3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~4\/9NAJPwVdKUw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOWTO make a custom snowglobe of your house: A clever fellow called Qarl figured out how to make a custom snowglobe of his family&#8217;s house as a surprise gift for his wife. He auto-modelled it in Google Sketchup, cleaned it up some, added a snowy hill, sent the model to a 3D printing company, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-gd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}