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Re: Headlight Patterns
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lugnet.build
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Wed, 25 Jun 2003 00:15:48 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Kevin Wilson wrote:
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Wow. This is a startling discovery Brendan! Amazing patterns. I made a very
few samples of your ideas (most of my headlight bricks are tied up in a
model of New Westminster at the moment :-) ) and found you have to build
the sections in the right order otherwise you’re trying to wriggle 2 studs
perpendicular to each other into place at the same time.
Larry is right too about the quilt pattern comparison!
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Yes, the build order is quite important. If we were to try a a giant “quilt”
like the one I suggested in my response to Larry, it would be quite the task to
actually fit all the 1,024-brick squares together. You would need to know in
advance how many people were bringing how many components, and plan accordingly.
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Has anybody done this before? If not I think Brendan deserves an award of
some kind :-)
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When Todd Lehman visited me a month or so ago and saw some of the headlight
patterns I was working on, he pointed out that this building technique is used
in
The Ultimate LEGO Book. Specifically, page 66 shows this technique used to
build a patterned coaster. I’ve had this book for a couple of years now, but I
didn’t remember that coaster until Todd reminded me of it. But it must have
been somewhere in my subconscious memory -- I even put the 1x8 tiles on the
sides like the book shows.
At some point after working out these patterns for a while, I also happened to
see that Stuart Immonen had created a simple “herringbone” pattern using this
technique with Ldraw:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=104423
So while I can’t claim total originality with the building technique, I think
I’ve stumbled onto the same basic idea others have had before me and just run
with it.
-Rev. Smith
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| A few years ago I did a little galaxy mosaic in this style, and it's still sitting on my shelf. I used gray, black, and white bricks, and made a spiral galaxy. I'm not sure if I came up with the technique myself or if I had seen it elsewhere. Eric (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) ... (...) I've been fascinated with parts that singly can be used to make patterns for over twenty years, but I don't think I ever thought to build anything exploiting that aspect. Kudos to the Reverend for this great inspiration. I got out my (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.build)
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| The Rev. Brendan Powell Smith wrote in message ... (...) that (...) could (...) Testament (...) Wow. This is a startling discovery Brendan! Amazing patterns. I made a very few samples of your ideas (most of my headlight bricks are tied up in a model (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jun-03, to lugnet.build)
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