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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)."

2 of 185 comments (clear)

  1. Re:And the conjugate... by digitalhermit · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Let's try this again...

    #include "colors.inc"
    #include "textures.inc"
    #include "metals.inc"

    camera {
    location < 0, 8, -8 >
    look_at < 0, 1, 2 >
    }

    plane { <0, 1, 0>, -1
    pigment {
    checker color Red, color Blue
    }
    }

    light_source { <2, 4, -3> color White} // example of object unions

    #declare lego=union {
    box {
    <6, 0, 0>,
    <0, 2, 4>
    }

    #declare cyl1=cylinder {
    <1, 0, 1>,
    <1, 2.5, 1> .5
    }

    object { cyl1 }
    object { cyl1 translate < 2, 0, 0> }
    object { cyl1 translate < 4, 0, 0> }
    object { cyl1 translate < 0, 0, 2> }
    object { cyl1 translate < 2, 0, 2> }
    object { cyl1 translate < 4, 0, 2> }

    texture { Glossy
    pigment { Red }
    }

    }

    object { lego }
    object { lego
    translate < -6, 0, 5 >
    rotate 20*y
    }

  2. Re:Wow.... by NaDrew · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I was hoping to see a Calabi-Yau space, myself. How many 1x3's would that take?

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