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Re: Proportions for a 2001 Monolith in LEGO?
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Sat, 24 Jan 2004 06:58:31 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Scott Lyttle wrote:
> <snip>
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> > Someone check my math... I gotta go to the airport!
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> Dunno about checking--my brain is a little fried today (long week of checking
> numbers and cross references here).
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> If I recall correctly from reading the book, the 1 x 4 x 9 dimension comes from
> the squares of "the first three numbers":
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> 1 squared = 1
> 2 squared = 4
> 3 squared = 9
1 4 9 ??
where have I heard that before?... I had no idea it was 1 4 9 !
OK, seriously.
What I'm driving at is that if you want to do it in bricks and do it the easy
way, studs up, the dimensions I gave for bricks of 2x8x15 high convert to 40 ldu
x 160 ldu x 360 ldu, which, when you take the common factor of 40 ldu (the width
of a 2x2) out you get... wait for it... 1 4 9 ! It's the ratio that matters not
the absolute measurement.
Now, I expect you COULD go smaller in an all studs up construction but you're
stuck with 20 LDU as one dimension I think, so you have to do something to come
up with 1/2 of a plate in thickness in the vertical stack.
As for all smooth facings, the easiest thing to do, I would think, is just
reverse direction somewhere in the middle from upside down to right side up.
Using old style hinge plates lets you do that in the thickness of one plate, but
does have the disadvantage that you don't have a completely smooth surface,
there are gaps where the rounded ends of the hinge plates don't fill in.
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| (...) Well yeah... but it would be interesting to build one of the correct _physical_ proportions, if only to say that you did it. (As has been established, this works out to 2 studs wide, 8 studs across, and 15 brick-heights high.) (...) Yes... (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jan-04, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Proportions for a 2001 Monolith in LEGO?
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| <snip> (...) Dunno about checking--my brain is a little fried today (long week of checking numbers and cross references here). If I recall correctly from reading the book, the 1 x 4 x 9 dimension comes from the squares of "the first three numbers": (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jan-04, to lugnet.build)
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