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"Eric DeGiuli" <edegiuli@DIESPAMhome.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks, guys. If you want, there is a brick paper template on Lego's • site:
>
> www.lego.com/graph
>
> I found that my printout was actually slightly imperfect, but that might
> have been a printer setting, not sure..
> I printed mine on really thin paper (tracing paper) so that I could • overlay
> it over my original picture.
>
> For the nose part that was created perpindicular to the rest of the • mosaic,
> I did some calculations this morning to confirm that the 'fit' is perfect:
>
> Let the dimensions of a 1x1x1 brick be 6/5x1x1 studs.
> Then the width of my nose piece is 5 plates * 1/3 (since they are • plates)
> * 6/5 = 2 studs.
> The same length, in the normal part of the mosaic, is 2 bricks * 1 • (since
> they are bricks) * 1 = 2 studs.
>
> The length of the nose piece is: 6 * 1 = 6, or 5 * 6/5 = 6.
>
> So the general formula for a length in "units" that can be created both
> vertically and horizontally with normal Lego pieces (ie bricks and plates)
> is:
> A * 1/3 * 6/5 = B * 1
> A * 2/5 = B
> A * 2 = B * 5, where A and B are natural numbers.
>
> A represents the number of plates you have to stack vertically to get • the
> length (in studs) B
> B represents the number of bricks you have to tile horizontally to get • the
> same length.
>
> It follows from the formula that if A is any multiple of 5 there is a
> corresponding even number B that is an integer.
> Likewise, if B is any even number there is a corresponding multiple of 5 A
> that is an integer.
>
> So there are many configurations of creating a block that will fit in
> perfectly perpindicularly to the surrounding mosaic.
> I hope someone can use this knowledge to their advantage.
>
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> Eric DeGiuli
> http://members.home.net/edegiuli/
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When you said, at dinner, that you liked math, you wern't joking.
:)
Iain (who is constantly amazed by math but doesn't understand it)
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