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Mathematical Lego Sculptures

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the too-much-time-on-your-hands dept.

Daedalus_ writes "Some guy has created mathematical surfaces (mobius strips, klein bottles, etc) out of Legos. He also has some other interesting creations (such as Dilbert figurines and a Hoberman Sphere)."

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  1. Holy crap! by TheCyko1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lego people can walk sideways on buildings?? We must make them our leaders!

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    1. Re:Holy crap! by cdtoad · · Score: 5, Funny

      THEY'RE NOT LEGO PEOPLE! The polically correct term is "MiniFig". Please refer to them as such since "Lego People" is a demoralizing term.

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  2. Wow.... by RaboKrabekian · · Score: 5, Funny

    Very, very cool.

    Now show me a hypercube and I'll be really impressed.

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    1. Re:Wow.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      or you could just run xlock -mode hyper.

    2. Re:Wow.... by Hollinger · · Score: 4, Funny

      That's easy. Take a 4-cube. Pass it through 3-space, and what you'll see is an infinitely small cube at the point in the center of the 4-cube which will then grow to the cross-sectional size of the 4-cube, and shrink back down. Not too hard to wrap your head around. Tesseracts are a totally different matter...

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  3. actually by Catskul · · Score: 3, Funny


    Actually, he mentions building something to amuse his 5 year old son,
    so I imagine that he IS married...

    He must have a very patient wife : )

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  4. I love it by nfras · · Score: 4, Funny

    On his other page I particularly liked the machine for switching itself off. Mind you, he'd need to be careful, he might be breaching Microsoft's patent on Windows.

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    1. Re:I love it by napa1m · · Score: 2, Funny

      I think he's safe. Most of my windows machines won't even switch themselves off! "Windows is shutting down" my @ss..

      I obviously need a small lego machine to pull the plug out of the wall every time it locks up... hmmm

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  5. Oh yeah? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can make a near-perfect rectangular parallelepiped out of single Lego brick. Top THAT!

  6. Re:Hypercube by Medevo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ouch it makes my puny 3d eyes hurt

    Medevo

  7. Two heads are better.......than one by Tablizer · · Score: 4, Funny


    I would like to see this guy get together with the creater of this site:

    http://drew.corrupt.net/lp/series2.html

    The Kline Bottle would then never be looked at in the same light.

    (Warning: not for minors)

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  8. Re:And the conjugate... by big_hairy_mama · · Score: 2, Funny

    Quoth the parent's parent: Use POVRay to render this :D

    Quoth the parent: in case anyone is wondering, this is POVRay code... i think.

    ObviousMan apparently has an alias: Vectra "duh" Fourteen.