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Re: Units (Was: Play "I can name that piece...")
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 15 Feb 1999 16:32:14 GMT
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On Mon, 15 Feb 1999 11:38:16 GMT, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman)
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> Name confusions aside (two different suggested meanings for LU), the
> measurement equalling 1/10 interstud width (.8 mm) seems like a most
> excellent basic unit of measurement with which >99% of bounding-box
> measurements can be given as integers.
But 1/20 is even better. Trust me, I use it all the time.
Sometimes, I have a hard time down-converting to something I can discuss
with other people without explaining myself.
--Steve
Studs are spaced at 20 pitch,
Plates are 8 units high.
Bricks go up 24 ticks,
And I can't make this rhyme.
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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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