Have you ever been deep in some fancy SNOT work and realized you weren’t able to keep track of all the half-plate, quarter-plate, or even eighth-plate values adding up? Or maybe you just really hate LEGO fractions and refuse to use them? Fortunately, there is a solution in the form of LDU. LDU Origins What is LDU you ask? Is that a weird LEGO Dimension Unit or something? Well kinda, but in reality, it claims its origin from the LEGO computer modeling program LDraw. The history of LDraw is better left to a different article, but know that it dates back to the 1990s. If you know anything about computers, you know they are good at math. But computers are also better at using whole integers, like 1, 42, and 1958, rather than any fractions or decimals like 3.14 or 2.71. With the standard units we are used to working with...
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