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Lego has introduced three toy sets which interface between physical and virtual play. Faaaaaascinating. The idea is to build something with bricks, then transfer that into a manipulable model in cyberspace. This has terrific potential for architects, scientists, and other folks who often transport their imagination from one layer of reality to another. I'm sure folks will figure out some practical applications for this after fooling around with it for a little while. In the meantime, it's awesome fun.

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From:

siliconshaman

There's a rumour, as yet unconfirmed by LEGO, that they are working on a 3D printer based on LEGO technoks line, that would allow you to design and print your own custom bricks, presumably as well as additional standard bricks.

It would be ironic to think that a future revolt of the machines started with LEGO's.

From:

dialecticdreamer

I sincerely doubt Lego will let anyone, ever, 3D print blocks. However, I can see them allowing the printing of stickers /for/ the basic bricks, and "outfits" for the basic figures.

Here's hoping, anyway.

From:

peoriapeoriawhereart

They should provide colorform clings for more than a single brick spans.

Printing bricks only makes sense for parts no one makes. Inverted two direction cut in slope.

Edited Date: 2014-06-28 01:51 pm (UTC)

From:

dialecticdreamer

Sorry, I literally can't picture this. (I also can't picture an equilateral triangle in my head /and/ turn it any direction besides flat toward "me" and facing up.)

Put it in four-year-old speak and I'd have a better comparison.

And the multi-span stickers? ABSOLUTELY!

From:

peoriapeoriawhereart

Let's start with a brick they do make, though getting it via pick a brick is the best modern option, unless you score at a garage sale. It's the corner for making a slope 'tub'. It's a two by two that has a mitered chunk taken out of it.

The piece I want is the upside down version, so I could say make a fancy gazbo or temple using inverted slopes facing in without holes in the corners. They do make an inverted 'skirt corner' which it the 'outie' version.

I do have (because as an adult, I can make indulgent choices) a ridiculous amount of LEGO, so I can set aside brick assemblies aside to maintain their stickers. As a kid it would have been torture. Tyco used colorform technology in their white, pale blue, pink and lavender sets, so I wish LEGO would spring for it.

From:

dialecticdreamer

Concave or convex? Rounded corners like the edge of a mushroom top? I might be getting it.

From:

peoriapeoriawhereart

These are rectilinear, though there are curved quarter cone sloped and their inversions. But yes, the first piece is a concave corner, so you can build with those 45° slopes retaining pools, skate parks and other basins. Convex corners let you make full skirts and hip-rooves. Inverted convex make good column tops. Inverted concave, hensteeth (I think they have been made, but they were in some dear set and putting them on pick a brick, nada. at last check).

Rounded concave and its inversion would be SWEET. So would a 2x2 base coming to a centered 1 stud. These exist as turret and rocket tops, but as more esoteric solids? IT WOULD BE EPIC! (hmm, you may forget I was a history major. Really.)

From:

dialecticdreamer

Check out 3d printers and their associated files. You'd be amazed.

From:

peoriapeoriawhereart

I went to pick a brick, and while I could find the dual slope corners, I couldn't find the concaves. Or the inverted duals.

(I'd be happy if they'd compose sets that were stocking stuffer size that gave 'rare' parts. They could round off with whatever parts so they could show models on the packaging.)