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Re: Proportions for a 2001 Monolith in LEGO?
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Sat, 24 Jan 2004 00:16:35 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
I am almost certain someone did one for a stop motion animation but might be
mistaken. It may have been not quite perfectly proportioned as it was a lot
smaller than yours

Ed Toton made a lunar Monolith scene, but the dimensions weren't listed (it's
way too small to be 2x8x15, though):

http://news.lugnet.com/space/?n=5501

Marc Thomas did make a LEGO-based movie version of 2001, and according to the
responses, it did include a Monolith that apparently was based on Ed's version,
but again, no dimensions were listed, and I'm not going to wait for it to
download just to count the bricks.

http://news.lugnet.com/animation/?n=3

Gary Thomas made a Moonbase module with a Monolith that he says is 2x8x15
(which, incidentally, does confirm your math, Larry):

http://news.lugnet.com/space/?n=17467

Using tiles on the top gets you 5 sides, For all 6 you need to do something
SNOTty, certainly. Rev Smith did a cloud that's studfree on all sides.

Getting into SNOT construction would almost certainly increase the minimum size
required to allow funky interior constructions, so 4x16x30 is probably the
minimum size for a vertically built, 100% smooth-surfaced version.  Of course,
if you're going for a 100% smooth surface, who says you have to build it
vertically?  I just thought of a way to build a 100% smooth-surfaced horizontal
1-2/3x8x18 version, which would be almost exactly the same size as a 2x8x15
upright.  Unfortunately, I don't have the 36 black 1x8 tiles required to pull it
off.  It also might be a tiny bit fragile.



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  Re: Proportions for a 2001 Monolith in LEGO?
 
(...) Actually, using SNOT you can create a perfectly smooth 1x4x9 stud monolith that is quite strong (won't fall apart if you drop it). Here are the parts I used: one 1x1 Technic Beam six 1x1 Headlight bricks two 1x1 Bricks one 1x3 Brick one 1x6 (...) (20 years ago, 3-Feb-04, to lugnet.build)

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  Re: Proportions for a 2001 Monolith in LEGO?
 
(...) I'm not sure I agree. A 1x1 brick is 20 LDU wide and 24 LDU high, ne? (...) 7x20 ldu or 140 ldu wide (...) 28x20 ldu or 560 ldu across (...) 54 x 24 or 1296 ldu high 1296 isn't 9 times 140... or is my math wrong here? I get 1260 as 9*140 I (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jan-04, to lugnet.build)

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