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Re: Lego Scale Conversion Tool
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Tue, 12 Mar 2002 19:49:29 GMT
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"David Eaton" <deaton@intdata.com> writes:
> If you're a freak like me, you love to convert things into minifig scale and
> technic scale. You want to see exactly how long a minifig-scale mile would
> be. And how tall would the Sears tower be in technic scale? Would a minifig
> scale aircraft carrier fit in my room? How big is my room to my figs? Etc.
> In a recent stint I decided I had enough and built myself a little
> conversion tool. So I thought I'd share it with the world. Or the Lego
> community at least:
> 
> http://www.suave.net/~dave/cgi/scale.cgi
> 
> Right now it only does minifig/technic fig scales, and also only goes by fig
> height, but I haven't quite yet ever been so inclined to go by any other
> measurement (since human widths and depths are hardly as 'standard'), so I
> figured "nah".

This is such a great idea!!  I may start using this thing every day!
(Can I have the source code?)

--Bill.

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William R Ward            bill@wards.net          http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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  Re: Lego Scale Conversion Tool
 
(...) The source is a little messy, though I was thinking of going through and polishing it off a bit tonight to look a little cleaner. If someone wants to turn it into Javascript or some such, that'd probably be pretty handy, since (as someone (...) (25 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.general)

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  Lego Scale Conversion Tool
 
If you're a freak like me, you love to convert things into minifig scale and technic scale. You want to see exactly how long a minifig-scale mile would be. And how tall would the Sears tower be in technic scale? Would a minifig scale aircraft (...) (25 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.faq) !! 

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