DLuders Posted January 29, 2011 Posted January 29, 2011 (edited) On his Flickr photostream, jasongetsdown (Jason Rossitto) posted images of these Lego Digital Designer (LDD) geometric spheres. Lego Icosahedron (a regular polyhedron with 20 identical equilateral triangular faces, 30 edges and 12 vertices) -- "This one uses 600 bricks": Lego Icosidodecahedron (which has 30 identical vertices, with two triangles and two pentagons meeting at each, and 60 identical edges) -- "Twenty triangular faces and twelve pentagonal faces rendered in virtual Legos. 1200 bricks": Lego Dodecahedron (which has 12 pentagonal faces, 20 vertices and 30 edges) -- "Just to round out the trio, a dodecahedron. 600 bricks": He posted LDD .lxf files on the Lego DesignByMe Gallery website; just type in the Username "jasongetsdown" (without the quotation marks) and they will pop up. You can use LDD Manager to create the Parts List from the .lxf file. Edited January 29, 2011 by DLuders Quote
Brickdoctor Posted January 30, 2011 Posted January 30, 2011 Nice. Although i personally can't think of any good uses for such a model, I love it when people build complex geometric shapes with LEGO. Quote
XimenaPaulina Posted January 30, 2011 Posted January 30, 2011 Wow these are extremely well done LDD models! Creating geometric shapes with the right combination of angles is simply a genius work. Quote
Calabar Posted February 1, 2011 Posted February 1, 2011 Probably the most expensive dice in the history of a LEGO lover Role-Player gamer! Impressive work, I like that. Quote
Matanuilover Posted February 13, 2011 Posted February 13, 2011 (edited) Awesome! Why didn't I think of that? *goes to create other geometric shapes* Edit: Truncated icosahedron, AKA "soccerball shape" or "[C60/Buckminsterfullerene/Buckyball] shape": http://www.brickshel.../trunc_icos.lxf There was some weird stuff with the angles not working properly for some reason, not all the angles and stuff are properly in place. Most of the fixes I made were with white studs, so you can use the "select by shape and color" tool to find most of the weirdly misfunctional parts Edit Again: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/matanuilover/MyOCs/trunc_icos.lxf Edited February 17, 2011 by Matanuilover Quote
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