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Physical ASCII Mosaic

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the why-not-liv-tyler dept.

An anonymous submitter, who might be Eric Harshberger, writes: "Some of my past LEGO whackiness seemed to make a few Slashdot readers chuckle, so I thought I'd pass along this link to my latest creation: A mosaic built of thousands and thousands of tiny little letter bricks. Kind of a weird turn on the ol' ASCII artwork." You may remember this guy from the famous Lego desk.

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  1. More Lego Genius by BradNelson · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I think it's a different guy, but what about the one who made the workind 9mm Beretta pistol out of Legos? And the (non-functioning) H&K MP5 submachine gun? That guy's good. But probably someone else. His site: http://onyx.malagraphixia.com/Beretta_9mm/Beretta_ 9mm.htm

  2. Letter frequency by kenneth_martens · · Score: 2, Interesting

    OK, according to the guy's website, his ASCII art includes 24,140 letters (that's A-Z, not counting numbers or other characters.) He lists the amount of each letter used, which I added to find the total.

    Now, let's compare the frequency of letters in his mosaic to the frequency of those same letters in the English language, using data from this website.

    Letter----Mosaic-------English
    'A' ----> .3438 % ----> 8.151 %
    'B' ----> .4515 % ----> 1.440 %
    'C' ----> .0994 % ----> 2.758 %
    ...
    'G' ----> 7.668 % ----> 1.994 %
    ...
    'Y' ----> 11.52 % ----> 1.982 %
    'Z' ----> .6214 % ----> .0770 %

    Feel free to calculate and post the rest yourself. Use your favorite non-English language if you like. YMMV.

  3. Re:Uh, what? by Carnage4Life · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yeah, thats rocket science all right, boy. Put the bacardi down and masturbate 2 handed you will enjoy it more.

    LOL. What makes him a geek isn't the fact that what he did is difficult, it is the fact that he does this in his free time. The same way Linus is a supreme geek in my eyes because he works on a freaking operating system as his means of unwinding after a hard day of work. Of couurse, it takes a real geek to appreciate such things. :)

  4. Cute Actress but.... by Zapdos · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I really do not know a lot of people willing to spend $1000X dollars on a ascii art of her. If he had used the picture of the three firemen in NYC It would most likely have been sold for $100000.

    Yes I know he made it for himself.

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