{"id":3213,"date":"2017-11-26T15:16:34","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T15:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/?p=3213"},"modified":"2017-11-26T18:02:16","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T18:02:16","slug":"qbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.huxter.org\/words\/?p=3213","title":{"rendered":"Q*Bert!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have long been a fan of the arcade game Q*Bert.<\/p>\n

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Heck, I even created a kind of clone of it in BASIC for my Commodore 64, called “BOXXY”<\/a> which even had a level editor.<\/p>\n

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I also found out Funko made a deformed version which I saw on shelves but was not happy with. Their tendency to square off round heads would just not<\/strong> work with Q*Bert.<\/p>\n

But then I saw they also made an Arcade series which were far more accurate, and before I actually found one, I had already made mine. But here’s theirs for comparison:<\/p>\n

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So in August I took it upon myself to create a 3D printed Q*Bert figure. It would not be difficult. A simple sphere with a piece of macaroni coming from it, with two spindly legs and nubby feet.<\/p>\n

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And the finished prototype with eyes:<\/p>\n

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So how do you go about making a 3D model of a pixel figure you only really ever get to see like this:<\/p>\n

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Easier than I thought. It seems there are many renditions of what Q*Bert may look like, including the one at the top of this article (seen on the side of the cabinet) and then there’s this one:<\/p>\n

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So I opted to do something resembling this, and my result was quite satisfactory.<\/p>\n

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Alas, 3D printing is great, but not perfect. Here, you see the weak spot. Since I wanted the face to print best, I printed it nose-up, meaning the rounded back had to sit on rafting, which so far, never prints very smoothly:<\/p>\n

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Nonetheless, I love the little guy.<\/p>\n

I wanted a display base, and of course the thing that sprang to mind is the teleport pad in-game.<\/p>\n

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I made several since several friends wanted one.<\/p>\n

Then last night, since I had just finished some other PEZ dispensers (another article<\/a>) I decided to take this model, scale it down a bit and make a PEZ Dispenser head of Q*Bert.<\/p>\n

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