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05/19/09
05/18/09
Someone should build a program that sees a picture on your computer and tells you how many pieces of Lego you will need and how to build it. I think Lego might have this somewhere in their secret basement of awesomeness.
There is no way in hell that someone thought of how to build the Death Star on Legos.
05/18/09
Feel better?
05/19/09
If you don't mind it being restricted to a 2D mosaic, there are already at least two programs out there. One was available through the LEGO Shop@Home website for ordering custom B&W mosaic kits. The other was fan-developed for designing color mosaics. Also, Eric Harshbarger (the original freelance LEGO artist, though he has been surpassed by Nathan Sawaya in recent years) custom-tailored an existing program that would output the plans in terms of decorated tiles instead of the standard design which uses plates.
As for the other bit, there's a guy who wrote a program that would spit out LEGO plans to build a replica of the Standford Bunny, and there's another program out there that will spit out plans for building a studs-out sphere. But to date, there's no program I'm aware of that'll churn out 3D plans of any random object you put in front of it.
05/18/09
05/18/09
I dare ya!
05/18/09
05/18/09
05/18/09
05/18/09
That's edible food bro.
05/18/09
05/18/09
05/18/09
Gamma rays! Radio waves etc. :-D
@metal face eagle premium is not from So Cal:
Edible.
@Brian Broker:
Are you that dense and/or have you never really played with LEGO? They make pieces that are circles!
@switchblade saints:
They have LEGO pieces formed like fire out of the box.
@Justin Williams:
You zing was wrong, his/her mom is edible!
05/19/09
Megabloks. I'm pretty sure the LEGO bricks would revolt.
Also, edible food is already covered, or were you unaware that you can buy LEGO-branded Eggo waffles and LEGO-branded fruit snacks?
03/27/09
03/27/09
If those are real LEGO bricks, ABS (the plastic the basic bricks are made of) only floats if it still has air bubbles trapped inside. Once it's full of water, it sinks.
03/27/09
03/27/09
Maybe. It depends on what you're trying to repair. I once put a LEGO Pirate ship in an aquarium, and discovered that forcibly sinking LEGO bricks is a bit of a pain, since you have to make sure you get all the air bubbles knocked out of the undersides (which means you really need to build it underwater so you can waterlog each piece). In this case, you want to keep all the air bubbles intact, and cleaning out all of the water that is sure to accumulate would take a long time.
03/27/09
Weak like a Japanese boy band weak.