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| (...) [snip] (...) Nah, you don't have to use a new piece (URL) [1] Chris 1. (URL) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts)
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| (...) And we would call them what..... Yes! Diastereomers :) (...) not to the pedantic (...) Chris (20 years ago, 9-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts)
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| Hi Norbert, Thanks for posting this! Although I've only been modeling digitally lately, I really enjoy your tutorials. Question re: hat production Have you ever thought of just making a silicone mold out of the finished prototype? Then you could (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-05, to lugnet.parts.custom, lugnet.parts.mod)
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| Hey, Awesome post! Larry has a point with the text on the studs, but when I teach symmetry and chirality and talk about everyday objects I always put in the caveat "this baseball has such-and-such symmetry properties, igoring all imperfections and (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts, FTX)
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| (...) LOL! I'm a chemist in my day job, so I made (URL) this>, but I didn't tackle tetrahedral shapes. (URL) Professor Dean Campbell of Bradley University teaches (URL) chemistry with LEGO> and has some tetrahedral shapes, though they are pretty (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts, FTX)
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| (...) I find that animals and plants make some of the most interesting MOCs. There are families of plants whose leaves are chiral. There's one particular house plant that I can think of, but I can't remember its name. I think some types have leaves (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts)
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| (...) I will never look at my bricks the same.... what a great idea for a lesson plan, I have written it down to tell my sister (a secondary science teacher), I am a training early childhood so chirality isn't on the curriculum :(. Is there nothing (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts)
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| (...) snip (...) Your post reminds me of my painful memories of organic chemistry from university... Never thought it could be applicable to things other than molecules! :) -Bryan (20 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts)
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| (...) Good stuff. Seems BrickWiki fodder! I would footnote that many paired parts are not TRULY enantiomers since the logos on the studs are not reversed. But that is a very unimportant footnote since they are functionally mirrored. (20 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts)
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| LEGO and chirality Chirality is the property of an object that can not be superimposed on its mirror image. Examples includes both natural (biological) object such hands and cultural (technical) object such screws. A non-chiral (achiral) object can (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, lugnet.parts) !
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