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Re: Yoctofig scale Death Star!! (Was:My House in Microfig)
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Wed, 8 Sep 1999 20:06:58 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dat.models, Steve Bliss writes:
> On Wed, 8 Sep 1999 19:05:03 GMT, "Jeff Stembel" <Dragonelf1@aol.com> wrote:
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> > Likewise, Yoctofig scale brings out the true beauty of the Death Star. ;)
> > [DAT file with only one part, a minifig head -ed]
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> What's "Yocto"?
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> Nice D.S. Much better than that 11-piece 6x6x6 version I had...
yocto- is the SI prefix for the scaling factor 10 to the power of -24.
In the LEGO community (as far as I've seen so far) the SI prefixes micro- and
nano- have been used to expand on the idea of "minifig scale", which is roughly
1:40 scale.
"microfig scale" seems to be used for anything from about 1:80 down to about
1,000, and "nanofig scale" for anything from about 1:500 down to, well I don't
know, probably around 1:100,000.
Since the Death Star is shown in the movies and appears to be about 10^9 times
the size of a minifig head, the minifig head would really be "nano" scale, but
since "nanofig" has already been used as I described above it makes sense to go
to smaller prefixes.
The other little-known small scale SI prefixes are femto- for 10^-15, atto- for
10^-18, and zepto- for 10^-21.
- Robert Munafo http://www.mrob.com/
LEGO: TC+++(8480) SW++ #+ S-- LS++ Hsp M+ A@ LM++ YB64m IC13
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