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What is the conversion between meters and bricks?
|Orange|:
I think that Blockheads are scaled to Lego Minifigs. So a Minifig in real life compared to a human would be 6 feet tall.
Zalot:
--- Quote from: Doomonkey on August 01, 2013, 04:15:09 PM ---Humans exist in the real world. There is pretty much 0 way to make a build using the Blockhead's proportions that doesn't look bad. If you want to build something to scale then make up a scale where you can add sufficient detail and use cube bricks as your basic conversion unit.
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The scale of Blockheads to buildings has nothing to do with it. He asked about meters, not bricks. He is asking about a real measurement unit to see how it would compare in this world.
--- Quote from: |Orange| on August 01, 2013, 04:23:29 PM ---I think that Blockheads are scaled to Lego Minifigs. So a Minifig in real life compared to a human would be 6 feet tall.
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Why do you think blockheads are miniature? Interiors are no longer in the game and should not be used a system of measurement. Blockheads were nearly human sized compared to the terrain anyway.
Doomonkey:
--- Quote from: Zalot on August 01, 2013, 04:27:08 PM ---The scale of Blockheads to buildings has nothing to do with it. He asked about meters, not bricks. He is asking about a real measurement unit to see how it would compare in this world.
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He needs a conversion for a project he is doing. This implies that he wants to build something accurately. If he wants to build something accurately he needs to ignore the blockhead entirely and go based off of cubes.
Demian:
kegeshan:
I'm going to do what Zalot already did:
Here's me with a football. A football is 11" tip to tip, or 27.94 cm. Because I'm an idiot, I used customary units in the pictures, so I'll convert in the text below:
A blocklander is about 3.5 footballs high, so that would be 97.79 cm, or 3'3". This means that a stud would be 19.558 cm, basically giving a 1:5 meter to stud ratio.
But what about a British football?
A British football can have a diameter of 6" or 15.24 cm (it varies).
A blocklander can fit about 3.75 British footballs, giving it a height of 2'8.4" or 82.5 cm. A stud would be 16.5 cm, meaning that there would be a 1:6 meter to stud ratio.
Just for fun, let's finish with a North Korean basketball:
A basketball has a diameter of 10" or 25.4 cm.
A blocklander can fit about 4.25 basketballs, giving it a height of 3'6.5" or 107.95 cm. A stud would be 21.59 cm, giving a meter to stud ratio of 1:4.42.
TL;DR: You're never going to get an accurate answer by comparing the avatars to random objects.