10.9cm free standing, no glue or tricks but top two bricks are just resting, not attached. https://imgur.com/gallery/FEk9l
2mm below the tallest, but how earth do you get the pink piece to balance on the gray piece?
I bow to the master.
Tallest Lego building with 4 pieces?
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Re: Tallest Lego building with 4 pieces?
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
... and where do you think new hackers come from? Personally speaking, I have no idea what a GA solver is but my initial solution would involve putting all the pieces on top of each other with their longest edges aligned - that's the maximum. Then we look at the constraints: gravity is a bit of a bugger. etc etc Keep your card and open your mind. You might be a bright lad but you can still learn to look at problems f…
> with their longest edges aligned Longest axes aligned. Longest edges is not the maximum. The article's final solution uses a long axis rather than an edge.
Whoops, it is surprisingly easy to think one word and type another.
Re: Tallest Lego building with 4 pieces?
#93Sorry but isn't two or three cheating? These are not valid ways to connect Lego are they?
Re: Tallest Lego building with 4 pieces?
#94Does this content really belong to hackernews?
Your comment got treated rather harshly, so let me try to explain. The post is on topic for HN because, although the question is a whimsical one, it gratifies intellectual curiosity (please see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ). Whimsical submissions like it have always been welcome here, as long as they're uncorrelated with anything that's appeared recently. (Sometimes people start doing the copycat…
While my view is that if someone posted it on HN and it was upvoted high enough—it belongs there; there is little in this post that "gratifies intellectual curiosity". Unless we are talking about the child involved, but I doubt she reads HN.
There is often a complaint about negativity on HN, but I don't think swinging the pendulum too far in the opposite direction adds quality. If anything it devalues really interesting content.
Re: Tallest Lego building with 4 pieces?
#95Sorry but isn't two or three cheating? These are not valid ways to connect Lego are they?
Yeah, that's what I thought too.
Re: Tallest Lego building with 4 pieces?
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
> what is a GA solver Genetic Algorithm solver, I assume.
Ok, got it (thanks) - something that would simply follow the rules to find a solution yet be unable to think outside the box. It would, for example, not even "think" of dabbing a small amount of Super-Glue on the edges to achieve the theoretical maximum. I don't recall the initial problem as stated precluding outside assistance. My point stands: dad is pushing daughter to use the rather large brain that she has to so…
Couldn't agree more. It's a lesson in perceiving the largest range of possibilities.
Coming from a family with a less money than average North Americans, this is an especially good lesson. For countries with enormous possibility, but few open paths to achievement, the value of this kind of ability in thinking can not be overstated.
Re: Tallest Lego building with 4 pieces?
#9710.9cm free standing, no glue or tricks but top two bricks are just resting, not attached. https://imgur.com/gallery/FEk9l
2mm below the tallest, but how earth do you get the pink piece to balance on the gray piece ? I bow to the master.
There is a taller one? Do tell! Link?
Edit: and as to how to get the pink one to stay, it was just some delicate balancing. And the pink one is tilted slightly toward the viewer/left, in other words aside from being (obviously) oriented diagonally, it's also not oriented straight up and down in the other axis. Managed to do it a few times for different attempts, as the first time the pip wasn't riding as high as it could be. The pip just stays on (barely) by friction, btw.
Re: Tallest Lego building with 4 pieces?
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
2mm below the tallest, but how earth do you get the pink piece to balance on the gray piece ? I bow to the master.
There is a taller one? Do tell! Link? Edit: and as to how to get the pink one to stay, it was just some delicate balancing. And the pink one is tilted slightly toward the viewer/left, in other words aside from being (obviously) oriented diagonally, it's also not oriented straight up and down in the other axis. Managed to do it a few times for different attempts, as the first time the pip wasn't riding as high as it c…
http://imgur.com/a/FXhbH
That one is 11.1 by my tape measure.
You could put them side-by-side.
Still amazed you got that to balance. I tried it (after seeing your picture) but gave up :)
Re: Tallest Lego building with 4 pieces?
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your comment got treated rather harshly, so let me try to explain. The post is on topic for HN because, although the question is a whimsical one, it gratifies intellectual curiosity (please see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ). Whimsical submissions like it have always been welcome here, as long as they're uncorrelated with anything that's appeared recently. (Sometimes people start doing the copycat…
also Lego have the hacker nature.
Quite.
Re: Tallest Lego building with 4 pieces?
#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your comment got treated rather harshly, so let me try to explain. The post is on topic for HN because, although the question is a whimsical one, it gratifies intellectual curiosity (please see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ). Whimsical submissions like it have always been welcome here, as long as they're uncorrelated with anything that's appeared recently. (Sometimes people start doing the copycat…
While my view is that if someone posted it on HN and it was upvoted high enough—it belongs there; there is little in this post that "gratifies intellectual curiosity". Unless we are talking about the child involved, but I doubt she reads HN. There is often a complaint about negativity on HN, but I don't think swinging the pendulum too far in the opposite direction adds quality. If anything it devalues really interest…
Intellectual curiosity doesn't only mean studying great work or deep problems. It's closely allied with a playful spirit that likes to do things just because. That playful spirit is vulnerable to being dismissed as unserious, so it needs protecting. We protect it here.
Of course opinions will always differ about any given submission, but that's the general approach.