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Beautiful! and maddening!
How in the heck did you do that? You're getting better. The last one I
could kind of tell from the picture how you did it, at least the columns.
This one totally baffles me. The central hole between the stairwells is
definitely not rectangular, the inner wall is like 8 studs on the upper left
and more like 14 on the lower right, but every corner looks like a right
angle. Not to mention, of course, how the stairs keep going up. I suspect
that when you show it from the side we'll see a spiral staircase that goes
up and then just ends, suspended in space, but when seen from the correct
perspective it perfectly lines up with the stairs below, but if that's what
you did it is so masterful that you cannot tell.
A couple of other details: I really like the upper-left roof. I'll have to
try that technique of using 45 and 33 degree slopes sometime. Also, a nice
detail is the gray fence on the lower right. How did you attach the 2x2
fenceposts to the 1xn fences with the studs half-offset?
This model, btw, really belongs in a museum. I could totally see in a
museum of science and technology having a display on perspective and optical
illusions. You could have this model sitting there and people could walk
around it, but then have a little scope where you look through from exactly
this perspective and see the illusion. Being in Lego is a big plus because
those types of museums usually try to make themselves very kid-accessible,
so using a toy as your medium is ideal.
Bruce
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In lugnet.build, Bruce Hietbrink writes:
> Beautiful! and maddening!
>
> How in the heck did you do that?
All is now revealed at BimP (www.bricksinmypocket.org)
under "models" :-)
>
> A couple of other details: I really like the upper-left roof. I'll have to
> try that technique of using 45 and 33 degree slopes sometime. Also, a nice
> detail is the gray fence on the lower right. How did you attach the 2x2
> fenceposts to the 1xn fences with the studs half-offset?
Not as exciting as all that, I'm afraid. We just used a bunch
of white 1x2 half-stud spacer plates.
>
> This model, btw, really belongs in a museum. I could totally see in a
> museum of science and technology having a display on perspective and optical
> illusions. You could have this model sitting there and people could walk
> around it, but then have a little scope where you look through from exactly
> this perspective and see the illusion.
Well, I have to admit that we got a bit lazy about colours
on the walls that aren't visible in the picture, so it looks
a bit scraggy from the back (but quite structurally complete).
Nevertheless, a friend who is a mathematics teacher at a
local school has asked if they can put it on display for
a while. The big problem is whether we can get it out of
my attic in one piece...
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