{"id":351,"date":"2017-01-16T13:04:04","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T13:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brix.nilso.eu\/?p=351"},"modified":"2017-01-30T15:51:31","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T15:51:31","slug":"3d-ambigram-nils-o-brix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/brix.nilso.eu\/?p=351","title":{"rendered":"3D Ambigram: NILS-O-BRIX"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A 3D ambigram of the lettering NILS-O-BRIX. Looking at the sculpture from one of the three main views you see the different letterings NILS, O or BRIX.<\/strong><\/p>\n

An ambigram is a lettering or an image that can be viewed from two different points of view (usually by turning the image by a 180 deg). The meaning of the ambigram can be the same or different when viewed from the different points of view.<\/p>\n

The most popular ambigrams\u00a0 can probably be found in Dan Brown’s novel Illuminati<\/em> and the movie with the same name based on the novel.<\/p>\n

A 3D ambigram is a special kind of ambigram: It’s a 3D sculpture that has a different meaning when viewed from the three main views (top-front-side).<\/p>\n

I’ve been fascinated by these things for a while, but when I read Illuminati <\/em>for the first time a few months ago I decided to build one myself. I chose to build an ambigram of my “Brick brand” NILSOBRIX divided into the three letterings NILS, O and BRIX<\/p>\n

I started with LDD with a design based on four 10x10x8 1\/3 cubic blocks. When I finished the design I realized how big that thing really was. So I built a smaller version based on four 6x6x5 cubic blocks.<\/p>\n

I decided to use two different colours to get a better seperation of the single letters. I used 1×2 clear transparent plates for the connection between the blocks (for the big one I had used 1×1 Technic bricks and pins for that). The rest was pure geometry.<\/p>\n

The design is a pure “studs up” design (no SNOT this time) with slopes and wedges instead of curves.\u00a0 The result is a “blocky” lettering looking a little like early 8bit computer letterings from the 1980s. I remember making similar letterings with PETSCII symbols on a C64 ;-)). I’ve also added a few of my signature studs on the top corners.<\/p>\n

So, this is the result…<\/p>\n

Top view: NILS\"img_0666\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Side view: O\"img_0660\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Front view: BRIX\"img_0670\"<\/a>
\n(You can almost see a “NILS”-shaped shadow on the surface)<\/p>\n

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\nThe centre hole of the “O” goes all the way through the sculpture. It was really a challenge to achieve that\u00a0without weakening the structure too much.<\/p>\n

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\nSo this is my 3D Lego ambigram showing the lettering NILS-O-BRIX.
\nI hope you like it :-))<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A 3D ambigram of the lettering NILS-O-BRIX. Looking at the sculpture from one of the three main views you see the different letterings NILS, O or BRIX. An ambigram is a lettering or an image that can be viewed from two different points of view (usually by turning the image by a 180 deg). The … Continue reading 3D Ambigram: NILS-O-BRIX<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[2,4,13],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54WOz-5F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brix.nilso.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brix.nilso.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brix.nilso.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brix.nilso.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brix.nilso.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/brix.nilso.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"http:\/\/brix.nilso.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brix.nilso.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brix.nilso.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brix.nilso.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}