Step one: model 11:45 in sketchup.
Step two: take model apart in sketchup by tediously rotating polygons. Surely there is some way to script this, (modulo the computationally nontrivial part of avoiding overlapping polygons) but I took the scenic route this time.
Step three: write horribly ad-hoc perl script to convert from the COLLADA data exported from Sketchup (exporting "Google Earth 4" yields a file that is secretly a .zip of COLLADA despite its .kmz extension) to postscript
sub group {
my ($n) = shift;
my @rv;
while (@_) {
my @buf = ();
for (1..$n) {
push @buf, shift @_;
}
push @rv, [@buf];
}
return @rv;
}
my $ninputs = 0;
while (<>) {
if (m(<float_array id="mesh(.*?)-geometry-position-array" count="(.*)?">(.*?) </float_array>)) {
push @c, {vertices => [group(3, split /\s+/, $3)]};
$ninputs = 0;
}
if (m(<triangles(.*?)>)) {
$ninputs = 0;
}
if (m(<input(.*?)>)) {
$ninputs++;
}
if (m(<p>(.*?) </p>)) {
$c[$#c]{triangles} = [group(3, group($ninputs, split /\s+/, $1))];
}
}
sub plot_vertex {
my ($x, $y, $cmd) = @_;
print "$x $y $cmd\n";
}
print "0.5 0.5 scale\n";
print "0 400 translate\n";
for my $p (@c[0,1]) {
print "%%% MESH\n";
my $vs = $p->{vertices};
my $ts = $p->{triangles};
for my $t (@$ts) {
print "newpath\n";
plot_vertex($vs->[$t->[0][0]][0], $vs->[$t->[0][0]][1], "moveto");
plot_vertex($vs->[$t->[1][0]][0], $vs->[$t->[1][0]][1], "lineto");
plot_vertex($vs->[$t->[2][0]][0], $vs->[$t->[2][0]][1], "lineto");
print "closepath fill\n";
}
}
Step four: import into illustrator, fiddle with colors and such.
(pdf file here if you wish to make your own)
Step five: print out and assemble. (the arms didn't make it)
Step six: Rock out.
Step seven: Rock out some more.
