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I was messing around with some 2x2 macaroni bricks the other night and made a cool pattern, but I didn’t have
enough bricks to fully flesh it out, so I fired up ldraw. Once I had the first
pattern, I couldn’t help but try my hand at a few more:
I don’t know if these have as much potential as
headlight brick
patterns, but still...
-Brendan Powell Smith
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| Hi, (...) It clearly reminds me some Penrose Tilings (URL), Escher works (URL) and Alhambra art. Unlike Penrose tilings, your tiling is based on the number 4 and 90° angles. (due to the Macaroni part geometry). Quite the same for Erling brick (for (...) (20 years ago, 3-Apr-05, to lugnet.build, FTX)
| | | Re: Macaroni Brick Patterns
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| (...) Very interesting..... This reminds me of the first 2 Lego sets ever produced that did not involve a building. That was the #1300 and #1301 Mosaic Sets from 1956. These Danish only sets contained a lot of 1x1 round bricks, 2x2 (quarter circle) (...) (20 years ago, 3-Apr-05, to lugnet.build, FTX)
| | | Re: Macaroni Brick Patterns
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| Just as a follow-up, I've created some more macaroni patterns and added them to the folder on Brickshelf. Here are a few of the nicer ones: (6 URLs) A couple of these stray from the aesthetic of using only the 2x2 macaroni bricks, and throw a 1x1 (...) (20 years ago, 5-Apr-05, to lugnet.build, FTX)
| | | Re: Macaroni Brick Patterns
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| (URL) Same design concept> as what I've done with the (URL) spindled fence> but with more practical uses. If I've got a lot more fences, I could certainly try to use your designs. AC (20 years ago, 6-Apr-05, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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