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Re: Smallest cube ever!?
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Thu, 22 Feb 2007 22:55:15 GMT
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In lugnet.build.schleim, Timothy Gould wrote:
   In lugnet.build.schleim, David Eaton wrote:
   Of course, the thing that’s still missing is the 3x3x3 cube! We’ve discovered how to make a 2x2x2, a 4x4x4, 5x5x5, and anything larger that’s an integer multiple of studs... But no 3x3x3’s :(

The other thing that I haven’t seen tried is making non-integer multiple cubes. Could you, say, make a cube whose edges were 3.5 long? Or 4 studs and 2 plates? I doubt anyone’s gonna get one that’s smaller than a 2-stud long side, but if anyone can, I’d still love to see it!

DaveE

hmmm. I have a suspicion that most non-integer cubes are impossible because of the way the surfaces can be constructed.

Of course this should be all non-integer cubes are impossible...

Tim



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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Timothy Gould wrote: (snip) (...) I'm not so sure about that... If I understand correctly, the main issue here is to produce a flat square surface with a non-integer number of studs as side, right? Because that is certainly (...) (17 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)

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(...) hmmm. I have a suspicion that most non-integer cubes are impossible because of the way the surfaces can be constructed. Each side of a surface must be constructed out of I + 1/5 J plate units (I and J integer) since we can only make them out (...) (17 years ago, 22-Feb-07, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)

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