Education and demonstration – Visual art or craft – artistic adornment – or color training... – Design formed of identical or complementary elements
Patent
1992-10-02
1993-12-07
Mancene, Gene
Education and demonstration
Visual art or craft, artistic adornment, or color training...
Design formed of identical or complementary elements
446127, 446 85, A63H 3308
Patent
active
052678636
ABSTRACT:
Interlocking blocks are configured to serve as basic picture elements and beams ("pixels and sticks") for creating a variety of two- and three-dimensional graphic artifacts. The pixel blocks have a substantially square cross-section and may be made in cubes or in beams of various length. The four sides of the square cross-section are made identical, each side defining a tongue alongside a groove in a symmetrical complementary configuration such that adjacent blocks can be slidingly interlocked together to form one- and two-dimensional arrays; thus cubes, or blocks of uniform length, can form two-dimensional artifacts and blocks of various lengths can form three-dimensional artifacts. By utilizing the blocks in a variety of visual properties such as color and light transmission, quantities of the blocks and/or beams may be interlocked together to form pictures, graphics patterns, and other artifacts. Using computerized scanning of an original object, pixel data of the original may be acquired and stored; from this data, artifacts may be assembled automatically from pixel blocks to produce either a likeness, or, with data manipulation, a graphically-stylized rendition. For manual assembly, acquired pixel data may be utilized to generate a pixel map and a corresponding kit of blocks having different properties in the correct quantities, for use in industrial assembly, education, therapy, home hobbies, and such involving users of all ages.
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Mancene Gene
McTaggart J. E.
Thomas L.
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