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Re: Minifig scale?
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lugnet.build
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Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:17:25 GMT
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In lugnet.build, David Laswell wrote:
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In lugnet.build, Timothy Gould wrote:
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Of late I’ve noticed a resurgence in the use of ‘minifig scale’ as a term.
Being a mathematically inclined pedant I tend to take issue with this term
as minifigs are so deformed it strikes me as impossible to define a single
‘scale’ to them.
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Minifig scale, as with micro-scale and nano-scale, is a very broadly defined
term. Miniland scale can be nailed down fairly precisely, but you can make
one creation and call it nano-scale, and then make a matching creation that’s
half that scale and it’d still fall under the nano-scale umbrella.
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--snip--
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At the end of the day, minifig scale is what you choose to make of it, and
your minifig scale probably won’t be the same as the next guy’s, and that’s
all right. You know, aside from the fact that I regularly put motorcycles on
our displays that dwarf most of the “cars” around them.
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I think you’re demonstrating my point here by confusing size and scale here. A
‘scale’ defines the ratio of each dimension of the model to the real thing. Thus
HO scale is 1:87, half scale is 1:2, true nano scale is 1:10^9 and minifig scale
is impossible to define. It may be a common misnomer, but it is a misnomer.
Tim
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| I think this whole issue of scale and size brings into question just how humans see the world and depict it. Western Civilization and the whole scientific mathematical outlook of the world originated only a few hundred years ago with the discovery (...) (16 years ago, 26-Jul-08, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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| (...) Minifig scale, as with micro-scale and nano-scale, is a very broadly defined term. Miniland scale can be nailed down fairly precisely, but you can make one creation and call it nano-scale, and then make a matching creation that's half that (...) (16 years ago, 26-Jul-08, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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