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Re: HMLS Snottler Page
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In lugnet.loc.au, Kerry Raymond writes:
> > The ultimate voyage was yesterday, after which it was taken to the
> > scrapyard. The demolition crew wasted no time in reducing it to its
> > component parts... and the piece counting has begun.
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> Must have been one of those weekends, as I destroyed the Church of Steeple
> Cheney (the large grey church) that weekend too. Knowing the completely AR
> nature of this group, herewith are some statistics:
Wow. I'm very impressed!
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> Number of bricks: 5661
> Volume of bricks: 27020
I just realised how short my scuttling process falls.
> Of the 5661 bricks, 3397 (60.1%) were light grey and had a volume of 16733
> (61.9%), while 1740 (30.7%) were black and had a volume of 7673 (28.4%). The
> remainder 524 (9.2%) bricks were assorted colours.
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> The most extensively used brick shape was the good old 2x4 brick, which
> comprised 28.5% of the bricks and 36.3% of the volume. Most of these bricks
> were light grey and were used in the lower (and thicker) parts of the walls,
> buttresses and towers.
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> The 2nd most common brick shape was the 2x2 45-degree slope which comprised
> about 8.4% of the total bricks, and were mostly in black and used to build the
> roof.
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> The 3rd most common brick shape was the 2x2 brick (7.3%). Like the 2x4 brick,
> these were mostly light grey and used in the lower walls, buttresses and
> towers.
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> The 4th most common brick shape was the 2x2 45-degree inverse slope (7.2%).
> Like the regular slope, these were mostly black and were used to build the
> ceiling (i.e. the underside of the roof).
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> After that comes the 1x2 brick and the 2x3 brick, again mostly in light grey.
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> For those of you who remember the church, you may be wondering (as I was) how
> come 10% of a grey and black church were actually other colours. The answer is
> the enormous number of 1x1 round plates in various transparent colours used to
> do the stained glass windows. Also, there were many red arch windows, and of
> course all those flowers, trees etc added up as well.
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> Some of you may be wondering about this concept of "volume". Since the size of
> Lego pieces can vary enormously, there is of course a difference between using
> a single 1x16 brick as opposed to say 16 1x1 bricks. So I associate a volume
> with each shape in my spreadsheet. For example, a 1x1 brick has volume 1, while
> a 2x4 brick has volume 8. A 1x1 plate is 1/3 etc. Now I readily admit that the
> volume of the non-rectangular bricks was somewhat casually estimated, and there
> are some anomalies like the windows get credited with all the volume they
> enclose and the window inserts with none, but despite this, I figure it's a
> useful metric as piece count can tend to be dominated by the frequent use of
> small parts that are nonetheless of limited significance in the overall
> structure of the model. Does anyone know if there are any detailed tables of
> volumes for Lego pieces, especially the non-rectangular ones?
I think Snottler's most common part was either 4x1 or 2x1 bricks.... I'll
have to dig out my notes and check.
Did I mention I was impressed with your stats? And I *like* the volume
concept... particularly useful when you have to do lots of parts substitution.
Cheers
Richie
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| (...) I have a complete Excel spreadsheet of the parts of the Church by shape and colour. I'd hate anyone to think I took this stuff seriously :-) Kerry (22 years ago, 14-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| (...) Must have been one of those weekends, as I destroyed the Church of Steeple Cheney (the large grey church) that weekend too. Knowing the completely AR nature of this group, herewith are some statistics: Number of bricks: 5661 Volume of bricks: (...) (22 years ago, 13-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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