 | | Is it efficient to replace plates w/bricks in a plates studs up mosaic? —Bob Kojima
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| | | Is it efficient to replace plates w/bricks in a plates studs up mosaic? I always thought it was and have been trying to think of a way to implement it in Bricksaic for about a year. I was trying to come up with a smart and efficient way of doing it. (...) (20 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mosaic, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Is it efficient to replace plates w/bricks in a plates studs up mosaic? —Ed Andrews
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| | | | | (...) Bob, I just downloaded a copy of program this week and have played around with it over a few lunch hours. Good question. Can you implement all three choices, say as a toggle like you choose with the other features? I have yet to do a mosiac, (...) (20 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mosaic, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: Is it efficient to replace plates w/bricks in a plates studs up mosaic? —Bob Kojima
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| | | | | | (...) Yeah i was looking at Van Gogh's Cafe Terrace and Stary Night yesterday. i would love to do a mosaic, but never see my self with enough bricks to do one. bob (20 years ago, 3-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mosaic, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Is it efficient to replace plates w/bricks in a plates studs up mosaic? —Maarten Steurbaut
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| | | | | (...) Yes it is ! If you build larger mosaics, you'll see that it gets much heavier if you only use plates. The more bricks you use, the lighter your finished mosaic will be. The best method?? In my mosaic I searched for large areas to use bricks (...) (20 years ago, 5-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mosaic)
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| | | | | | | Re: Is it efficient to replace plates w/bricks in a plates studs up mosaic? —Bob Kojima
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| | | | | | (...) hi Maarten, you bring up a good point. it never occurred to me that weight would also be an issue. this now becomes a weight vs. part count efficiency problem. i'm going to have to go find the weight of the parts i'm using and do some (...) (20 years ago, 10-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mosaic)
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| | | | | Re: Is it efficient to replace plates w/bricks in a plates studs up mosaic? —Maarten Steurbaut
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| | | | Bob, One more suggestion: Because there is no "brickwall"-structure in your MLCad results, it might not be such a bad idea to alternately read lines from left to right and from right to left. In my program I also have something like this: For I = 0 (...) (20 years ago, 8-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mosaic)
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| | | | | | Re: Is it efficient to replace plates w/bricks in a plates studs up mosaic? —Bob Kojima
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| | | | (...) Thanks for this suggestion. that way i wont get colums of bricks all the same size and the layers will be more interlocked. great idea! bob (20 years ago, 10-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mosaic)
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