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This is awesome

i fully expected this content and the city tour to be among the most viewed vids, after watching videos about techniques its great to see them in practice! very cool stuff

I made a fishing pond a while back for my Lego City but it's in the back corner of the city and it looks really bad because you can only view it from the side so I might have to improve it soon

but still there is a question how t oconnect that 45 degress wall to another at 0 and/or 90 degrees

Sounds like you’re having to explain the difference between building techniques and applications. There’s always a time when different ones are applicable. There’s also the technic axle with studs that can go into a technic brick with cross hole for adjusting the width, but keeping the studs on grid. Or various clip bar attachments. Your technique demonstrates fixed positions. Not infinitely adjustable ones.

Hi I don’t use discord but I thought I’d send you a message on here. Meijer is having planogram resets in some of their stores and a lot of sets are around 50% off or more.

I cannot understand why 6044 is retired. It's such an obviously useful piece and provides so much build potential. It's the kind of piece that I would have LOVED easy access to as a child. It's one of those pieces that frankly should never be retired. It's just too obviously useful.

You forgot to mention that sliders slide so they're not as stable as the other method

The naming convention for see through lego pieces keeps making me think lego creators are making videos about trans people/issues

came out as genderfluid, call that a trans slider (I had to the joke was right there)

I don't really think they're comparable as one is fixed and the other is not. But at 4:25, I am a bit confused. Couldn't you just add a plate on the side with snots on top of the sliders to create a corner?

Dear Chris, I'm sorry to say this but I have made a firm decision to no longer watch Lego videos, in order to help myself overcome the desire to buy more Lego than I already have. I'm just explaining why I have to unsubscribe. I'm unsubscribing from all Lego YT channels and even from fake Lego channels also, although I hadn't ever bought any of that. I wish you all the best with your Lego adventure and videos. I'm still grateful for the enjoyment I experienced from watching Lego videos! In your case, I leave myself the space to return when I feel the need for advice on tips and tricks. After wavering I decided to stick to my decision, because I've told other Lego TH-camrs that "I'm unsubscribing from *all* Lego channels", so I don't want to go back on what I said. Thank you again for your stimulating Lego videos!

Lego has an education department - you should send in some of your ideas!

Whenever my wife argues I'm too much of a nerd for spending time refining medical science, I pull out this video. You are my hero!

I like how everyone is saying it is unassuming, when that is easily a top 3 MOC I have ever seen.

Must admit, I came into this video with no knowledge and I leave it with just as much.

Discrete vs continuous

I respect needing both types. That being said, the corner demonstration seemed a little useless to me. Like obviously if you have an easy LDU distance that a standard bracket can cover you'd just use that. The sliders seem more useful for when you'd have to otherwise stack up four studs worth of jumpers, brackets, and chalices that wouldn't be able to do the corner either. Still a nice video, but I don't think it helped prove your point.

yay trans!

I would like to note, that in larger applications, it could be possible to use the Trans Slider Method to fill out the corner, but it comes at a great expense of design footprint. It would require 1 brick of height for an X-axis component and another brick of height for a Y-axis component, and then building out a facade on top and to the side. It certainly wouldn't have much structural stability or sufficient clutch power without additional layers and many additional pieces, but stacking Trans Slider bricks does add another degree of freedom with position.

I should dig out my Technics and make LEGO calipers that give measurements in LDU's. The backlash in normal Technic gear trains is usually much more than an LDU, so it would require clever use of levers.

Wow. No clickbait!

What about the cis sliders tho?

This video gives off the same feeling of blinking in math class

Sliders are not irrational sizes, they are continous. If you set them to stick put 1 LDU they will still be rational numbers. the problem with attachment isn’t that they are irrational. The problem is that you offset it by 1 LDU, meaning you need some way to get the offset back, so in that sense it’s exactly like the regular method of creating 1 LDU gaps. You can also achieve the corner in the same way using sliders, it would just be a lot bulkier. The main problem with sliders is… they slide.

The LDU is also stronger when ofsetting plates in terms of height bc slideres could slide down under pressure

And here I thought sliders were just a White Castle thing. 🤔

U could use sliders as a way to halfass an attachment to a jumper when building short length 45° angles. That could be useful but there r plenty of other ways to accomplish that same feat so I don't know why u might need that technique. But now im gonna try to find a reason😂

Sliding doesn't necessarily create irrational numbers. Irrational numbers are numbers that cannot be represented as a simple fraction. You can slide to 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, etc of a brick easily and those are rational. You can also slide to 1/pi, 1/e, 1/sqrt(2), etc and those would be irrational. Because of the LDUs in lego, you can only place bricks on studs in fractions that are some multiple of 1/20 of a brick. You cannot place a brick at 1/sqrt(2) distance away from anything when firmly on a stud. Also, keep in mind that numbers like 0.333... are not irrational. 0.333... is identical to 1/3 which is by definition rational because it is a simple fraction. Yes, that means 0.999... is identical to 1.0. No, repeating digits don't "grow" in the same way that a human would write them down on a piece of paper; they simply exist instantly and in totality.

They're turning the sliders trans

You can make a perfect corner with trans sliders if you add a snot brick on top of the first slider and a slider on the snot stud and a tile on that 2nd slider, then you can adjust in both directions. 😉

I think you kinda forgot to mention something, maybe because it's too obvious: sliders slide, which can be a problem if you want your build to be stable and solid.

couldnt you put two 1x2 sliders and put a snot brick on top of it? or am i missing something. mostly for the corner example!

It'd be interesting to see an obelisk that uses the LDU increments on the outside, but also had hidden transparent pieces on the insidewhich could be revealed by pulling the 4 corners in opposite directions. The sliding property the transparent pieces may only be needed at the top, middle, and bottom, too many and it would suck to try and open. That being said, I doubt having a structure that uses LDU increments on the outside would be very convenient to try and add a dynamic feature to. I dont even think there would enough room to split the obelisk into 4 pieces, let alone a way to make a core that is both dynamic and structurally sound (not even mentioning the amount of odd pieces needed to make any of it look visually pleasing) Thank you for the fun and creative videos, it brings me lot of joy to see someone exploring the art of lego

What’s the thickness of a cape? Is it less than an LDU? Could capes be used as washers to create spacings of different sizes?

"Sugar grid" is a really snappy name, I think it works well. It also lends itself to related lingo, like transitioning from standard grid to sugar (like with that walkway) could be called "sweetening", vs "unsweetening" to bring it back to standard. Elements of a build that are set at an angle with this technique would be "sweet", etc

Sad that you didn't talk about the principal problem with slider: you need something to keep them at precise position, also we can't consider their increment as they have a continum of diferent position between 0 and 1 ldu.

Okay well I know it isn’t perfectly 45 but it’s still cool

I noticed that my newer translucent clear bricks have a slight purplish tint compared to my older ones.

They achieve two different things, which is actually pretty useful. The LDUs standardize the increments, and the sliders could be used to compensate for imperfect calculations & rounded measurements that are actually irrational… especially if a rational length is connecting to an irrational one (like connecting a wall with rational length to a base with an irrational hypoteneuse)

so what about the brick with axle hole, axle with stud, that i mentioned in some previous video's comments? the brick with axle hole stays on grid, while axle positions inside of the brick is infinite - you only have to be wary of the axles colliding in that corner example (have to, for example, place bricks with axle holes on top of each other)

and by sticking always to the original grid it makes it possible to stack them up always building slightly diffrent angles

Love your stuff mate. Keep it up!

Between this. Channel, and a channel named Galactic Plastic, a person willing to study and invest in parts should be able to build absolutely anything, incomparably well.

1:51 What if I told you, I skip over parts of videos like this, until I see the actual build.?.

What if I told you I just realized there's a piece that takes us straight to a two-LDU offset with no jumper plates needed? I give you: part 4081b or "plate, modified 1 x 1 with light attachment - thick ring." It's technically a SNOT piece with studs recessed by six LDUs from either side, meaning a plate attaches to them with a two-LDU offset. The piece is a little more fiddly to use, but for the right application, it could be ideal!

Been going through all your videos to see if what I'm looking for is already discussed by you, but it isn't. I would love to see a video about window and window frame techniques for mocs. The Lego window sizes are limited and I recently build the Lego jazz club where you actually get to build your own windows and window frames. I would love to see what options are out there when it it comes to what sizes one can create for both windows and doors! (The modern house actually uses window frames on their sides for example to give a wider window than is normally possible.)

around 10:00 "all the standard plates"...including a 1x5...holy crap

Did you ever notice the lego in the back is bs

Love it! Gorgeous AND helpful. Thanks! Maybe if you named the video something like "sugar grid in action" more people would watch it?