 | | Pythagorean Triads and Almost-Triads —Paul Baulch
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| | | G'day all, Most of this will not come as a surprise to "real" expert builders, but this post is also, in a way, an invitation to confirm what I have found. I certainly haven't seen any sort of data like this posted on anyone's web pages. Hopefully (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.build)
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| | | | | Re: Pythagorean Triads and Almost-Triads —Bram Lambrecht
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| | | | | (...) I believe Eric Brok has something like this on his site. (...) Part of the difficulty of creating these triangles is how you make the angles...for example, with Technic beams, you have to measure from the center of one end hole to the center (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-00, to lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | Re: Pythagorean Triads and Almost-Triads —Paul Baulch
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| | | | | | Bram Lambrecht wrote in message <20000109.104425.509...no.com>... (...) Ah, cool. I hadn't seen it before.... actually I can't see it now. What is the URL? :-) Wow, I'm almost embarassed to ask, I've been to Eric's site so many times, just not (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Pythagorean Triads and Almost-Triads —Bram Lambrecht
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| | | | | | (...) Whenever you know someone's name, but not their URL, check (URL) know Eric is there. (...) Not necessarily--especially if you use different hinges on either end. (...) Not all integer stacks of plates are integer stud widths tall. It's the (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.build)
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| | | | | Re: Pythagorean Triads and Almost-Triads —Bram Lambrecht
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| | | | | (...) How difficult do you think it would be to edit your program give one (or more) sides in integral plate heights instead of stud widths? That might give some useful results, too. --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-00, to lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | | Re: Pythagorean Triads and Almost-Triads —Bram Lambrecht
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| | | | | | (...) should be "...edit your program to give..." I really should proofread. (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-00, to lugnet.build)
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| | | | | Re: Pythagorean Triads and Almost-Triads —John J. Ladasky, Jr.
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| | | | Geez, Paul, This is the second time I've bumped into you ,doing a project identical to one of mine! (The other one was the 3-D map of nearby stars, in case you've forgotten.) (...) Emerging from my LEGO Dark Ages last fall, we opened an Exploriens (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-00, to lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | Re: Pythagorean Triads and Almost-Triads —Paul Baulch
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| | | | John J. Ladasky Jr. wrote in message <38814540.ED2D820E@m...ja.com>... (...) John, how could I possibly have forgotten that? ;-) (...) Here we go again..... :-) I think I don't. You see, my rule of thumb is that the walls that form the sides of the (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | Re: Pythagorean Triads and Almost-Triads —John J. Ladasky, Jr.
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| | | | (...) Oh great, another one of our geeky debates! 8^) (...) Do we know this for a fact? The LEGO hinge bricks are pretty snug. The joint is a Technic peg, but it is fixed to one brick. And you can't even disassemble the hinge plates. In spite of (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | Re: Pythagorean Triads and Almost-Triads —John J. Ladasky, Jr.
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| | | | | (...) O.K., I did it, and it WORKS! Here are the details (I wish I had a digital camera, or LDRAW right now): On a 32 X 32 baseplate, I constructed three walls using several 1 X 4, 1 X 6, and 1 X 8 bricks, four 1 X 4 hinge bricks, and two 1 X 8 (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jan-00, to lugnet.build)
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| | | | | | Re: Pythagorean Triads and Almost-Triads —Paul Baulch
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| | | | John J. Ladasky Jr. wrote in message ... (...) the (...) joint (...) disassemble (...) 45-degree, (...) No, we don't know this for a fact. When I said "my rule of thumb" I probably should have said, "the assumption I work under". It is a (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.build)
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