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Units (Was: Play "I can name that piece...")
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 15 Feb 1999 09:41:05 GMT
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Todd Lehman (lehman@javanet.com) wrote:
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> * I used LDU = "LEGO DUPLO Unit" here, such that 1 LDU = 2 LU.**
Take care. Some people use "LDU" for "LDraw Unit", which is 1/4 LU.
> ** Where does LU come from?
I don't know. I thought you, Paul or David [1] coined it?
Somebody had enough humor (and sense) to suggest that
"deciLU" [2] is the real base for LEGO measurements.
Play well,
Jacob
[1] The really old guys on RTL; Todd Lehman, Paul Gyugyi and
David Karr.
[2] Real **** **** fans know what this is all about. :-)
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| (...) Oops! (...) Hmmm, (digging through rilly old RTL news archives) wow, looks like the term LU meaning 1/6 standard brick height goes back at least about 4 years -- it appears first to have been suggested on 23 Apr 1995 by Kevin Horton. In a (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Me too! If only they'd appeared in white a few times (because of all the white corridor elements). I think they only appeared in black & blue. (...) In that nomenclature, how do you write fractional plate measurements? A plate is 2 LU tall, 1 (...) (25 years ago, 14-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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