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Re: Probably a FAQ...
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Date: 
Fri, 20 Nov 1998 06:31:17 GMT
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Somebody wrote:

...what's the ratio of distance between stud centers to thin piece
height in a LEGO brick?  (Which is to say, if I wanted to build a
more-or-less perfect sphere out of LEGO... my own Death Star,
f'rinstance... what aspect ratio would I use?)

I'm not sure I can get this right, but I'll give it a shot...

If you want a perfect cube, you take a 2x2 brick, and top it with a 2x2
plate, and top THAT with a 2x2 tile.  A standard brick is 3 plates high.

So a 2x2 brick is also 5 plates wide (if you exclude the top studs, and
they are usually inserted in something above them, so don't count. So I
would say that the aspect ration is 1 stud-to-stud to 2.5 thickness of
plates...

or...1 brick thickness is 1.2 to stud-to-stud ratio,

and...1 plate thickness is .4 to stud-to-stud ratio.

Does this get you any closer?

Rob



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...what's the ratio of distance between stud centers to thin piece height in a LEGO brick? (Which is to say, if I wanted to build a more-or-less perfect sphere out of LEGO... my own Death Star, f'rinstance... what aspect ratio would I use?) (25 years ago, 28-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)

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