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Re: Math.. I'm making my head hurt...
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lugnet.cad
Date: 
Mon, 5 Feb 2001 03:37:21 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Bram Lambrecht writes:
> Todd Lehman writes:
> > In lugnet.cad, Steve Bliss writes:
> > > Now *my* head is hurting.  You mean all these elements
> > > http://guide.lugnet.com/partsref/search.cgi?q=%2Bslope+%2Bbrick+%2B33
> > > are mis-named?  Oooo, someone get me some aspirin...
> > 
> > They're not too far off...
> > 
> >   Brick  |  Multi-Brick  Multi-Brick   | Single-Brick   Single-Brick
> >   Size   |     Slope        Angle      |    Slope           Angle
> > ----------+-----------------------------+------------------------------
> >   6x8x1  |      6:35       9.727579°   |    11:70          8.930590°
> >   2x4x1  |      6:15      21.801409°   |    11:30         20.136303°
> >   1x3x1  |      6:10      30.963757°   |    11:20         28.810794°
> >   1x2x1  |      6:5       50.194429°   |    11:10         47.726311°
> >   2x2x2  |     12:5       67.380135°   |    23:10         66.501434°
> >   2x3x3  |     18:5       74.475889°   |    35:10         74.054604°
> 
> I agree with the first column (measuring from the bottom of vertical portion
> of the slope to the top of the slope), but not the second.  In LDraw parts,
> the little vertical portion of the slope is 4 LDU, not 2, so the ratios are
> 
>   Brick  | Single-Brick   Single-Brick
>   Size   |    Slope           Angle
> ----------+------------------------------
>   6x8x1  |     1:7          8.130102°
>   2x4x1  |     1:3         18.434949°
>   1x3x1  |     1:2         26.565051°
>   1x2x1  |     1:1         45.000000°
>   2x2x2  |    11:5         65.556045°
>   1x2x3  |    17:5         72.610460°

Shouldn't this be:

1x2x3   |    17:5     73.610460°

Anyways, I've checked out most of the these calculations and measurements and
they seem correct to me.

- Mladen

> 
> But then again, the LDraw measurements may not be exact.
> --Bram
> 
> 
> Bram Lambrecht
> bram@cwru.edu
> http://home.cwru.edu/~bxl34/



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  RE: Math.. I'm making my head hurt...
 
(...) I agree with the first column (measuring from the bottom of vertical portion of the slope to the top of the slope), but not the second. In LDraw parts, the little vertical portion of the slope is 4 LDU, not 2, so the ratios are Brick | (...) (26 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.cad)  

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