This Technique Will Blow Your Mind. Unlocking The Secrets Of The LEGO Grid.

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  @reddblackjack · 1 year ago · pinned

  At first I thought it was brilliant. But it's NOT brilliant. It's revolutionary! I love it!

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  @Mysda_ · 1 year ago

  This is the minecraft sugar cane pattern. Magical.

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  @TheRealMTH96 · 1 year ago

  Let me blow your mind even more. The 10297 Boutique hotel set uses this patern to set half of the building on an angle. Crazy part is the floors, I wound suggest looking into the instructions. Basicly two "random" wedge plates (54383 and 54384) put next to each other make a perfect filler piece for the gab between both grids.

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  @alanschwarz · 1 year ago

  Echoing the above, the reason the squares at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=968lFtOba30&amp;t=660">11:00</a> are 37 and 53 degrees is because those are the angles of a 3-4-5 triangle — which from your (awesome) prior video we know are 4-5-6 studs. I didn’t comment on that video, but the reason it’s 4-5-6 in LEGO instead of the legendary Pythagorean 3-4-5 is because the first stud is actually 0 — the “origin” (0,0) in math-speak. So the fourth stud is actually X=3. So in figuring out all these angles — particularly in this video — always consider the first stud zero and you can follow regular trigonometry. Yes, I was a math teacher! 💪💪💪

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  @Greenicegod · 1 year ago

  A 45° angle would indeed be illegal, for the same reason Pythagoras was so upset by it. The length between diagonal studs is √2 times the horizontal length between studs. √2 is an irrational number, which can only ever approximate a whole number of studs over some distance. Some of those approximate distances would be within Lego&apos;s manufacturing tolerances, but you would never be able to construct a repeating grid without a defined origin point, like you can with rational triangles.

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  @walkerbrowning3642 · 1 year ago

  For anyone wondering, the 20x20 square is actually off by 2.6% of a stud from being exactly 20 which when divided across the whole length is only a 0.14% error or 11 microns per stud. This is likely well within LEGO’s own manufacturing tolerances. As for the fitting of plates between studs the gap is about 2% smaller than it should be to accommodate the plates based on a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=968lFtOba30&amp;t=740">12:20</a> stud:brick width ratio so this technique is likely (technically) illegal

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  @zwitshr · 1 year ago

  The extra effort put into actually making the explanations aesthetically pleasing is so worth it

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  @svendsmitha.623 · 1 year ago

  You can think of the movement of the knight in chess for the grid placement 2up1left instead of placing and removing all the plates for windmill pattern

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  @pinkraven4402 · 1 year ago

  Wow, normally I treat these tricks as interesting gimmicks, but this diagonal grid could be actually so useful for arranging buildings o_o

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  @ramakho · 1 year ago

  This is a game changer for city builders who want to get off the Lego baseplate grid. We need to see some city updates since you’ve been hinting to it in your videos.

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  @eyedeerman · 1 year ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=968lFtOba30&amp;t=574">9:34</a> he adds the accidently missing round stud on the bottom right of the top half of the plate at this moment if anyone was wondering 😎

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  @Endigo_Vandane · 1 year ago

  I&apos;m just happy you understood what I was trying to explain.<br>The beauty of a channel like yours is the fact that different techniques and discoveries can be shared among builders.<br>I hope that giving this method some attention will allow it to be used in all sorts of new and exciting ways.

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