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Microfig vs. Nanofig (Was: Nanofig Ties)
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Fri, 9 Apr 1999 21:22:35 GMT
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JSPROAT@nospamGEOCITIES.COM
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SCOTT R DENNETT wrote:
> Since it seems that we have advanced from microfig building to nanofig building, here are a couple of tie fighters :) PLMKWYT
Pretty innovative models, but wouldn't a nanofig-scale one-man fighter be
roughly one millimeter wide? I would say that the models you just posted
are roughly in the same scale as previous microfig-scale models.
It's my understanding that nanofig scale is most appropriate for modelling
really *huge* items, such as mile-long starships and presidential egos.
That sort of thing. If you follow the metric prefix sequence,
"micro" = 1 / 1,000,000 (i.e. one one-millionth (1) ) ;
"nano" = 1 / 1,000,000,000 (i.e. one one-billionth), or 1 / 1,000
micro-scale.
You could probably sculpt planetary models in picofig-scale, or 1 /
1,000,000,000,000 (i.e. one one-trillionth). Todd's bloodsucker nanotech
droids (2) could arguably be kilo-fig scale. Of course, this analogy breaks
down PDQ when you note that "mini" isn't even in there. :-P
BTW, I really like the TIE fighter, regardless what scale it's in. :-,
Cheers,
- jsproat
1. American metric. Not to be confused with the metric used by the rest of
the world. (3)
2. http://www.lugnet.com/news/display.cgi?lugnet.cad.dat:160
3. Note that I'm going from memory, with approx. 64 oz. of caffeine in my
bloodstream (4), listening to a lethal mixture of MP3 including INXS and
Queen and Enya and Oingo Boingo and Talking Heads and Loreena McKennitt, and
trying to implement a recursive treenode-sorting function in Java (5), so
all that silly rambling legalese (6) about standard disclaimers applies.
4. And no, I'm not going to convert 64 oz. into metric right now. :-,
5. I've decided to fully endorse usage of ObjectSpace's JGL. What a slick
API. Though the docs are kinda hard to understand with the Pixies
screeching in stereo. :-,
6. Like I'm not silly / rambling right now. (7)
7. I think that that's enough footnotes for now. :-P
--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@geocities.com>
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/5249/
"The world will not perish for want of wonders but for want of wonder"
-- British scientist J. B. S. Haldane (1892-1964)
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 | | Re: Microfig vs. Nanofig (Was: Nanofig Ties)
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| Well acording to my science book the building scales should go more like minifig(or just plain fig) down to millifig(which would have been microfig), and then to microfig(which was nanofig), and then if you wanted a nanofig stardestroyer all you'd (...) (25 years ago, 10-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad)
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