How can you use rectangular bricks to make amazing curved shapes?
LEGO creations that seem impossible to make without bending the bricks themselves can come together easily with a little help from your high school math class.
Jeff Sanders of Portland, OR began incorporating geometry into his LEGO building when he realized that even though the bricks are made of a hard plastic, they have a little bit of flexibility.While trying to create a spiral out of LEGO, Sanders struggled until he sat down and drew on paper the structure he was trying to make to help him visualize his problem.
Doing this showed him that the proportions of the spiral grew in the ratio 1:2:3:5:8, otherwise known as the Fibonacci sequence. It was then that using math to build with the bricks clicked for Sanders.
See more of the story at this link: geekosystem.com/bendable-lego-geometry/
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Link to more on Fibonacci numbers: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number