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While the project isn’t officially affiliated with the LEGO lines of toys, Gravity Research Club’s engineers were certainly inspired by the simple lelegance of the Lego building block. “As we all grew up with Lego we are familiar with the simplicity of the rules \u2014 you can only stack on top of another \u2014 and we found it a great platform to develop on,” says Oluwaseyi Sosanya, one of the four engineers developing Lego X and Gravity Sketch. While she couldn’t reveal how Lego X works, its capabilities are straightforward: The program instantly translates the physical Lego construction into a 3D model. That model can be manipulated, simplified into basic volumes, and saved in multiple file formats. Lego X is still in an early proof-of-concept stage (at the lower ‘resolution’ of the larger Duplo bricks) but the Gravity team hopes to progress to standard Lego blocks soon.<\/p>\n