Commentary on the Entropy of LEGO®

Arthur E Stamps
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Arthur E Stamps: Institute of Environmental Quality, 290 Rutledge Street, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA

Environment and Planning B, 2012, vol. 39, issue 1, 183-187

Abstract: A preceding paper suggested that the information content of buildings could be calculated by using sets of LEGO® as a language and then applying the entropy of that language to Lego models of buildings. A competing hypothesis is that the information content of buildings can be calculated based only on the parts of the buildings. An empirical experiment with Lego models indicated that use of a language is neither necessary nor sufficient for calculating information content of buildings. Counting numbers of different parts of the buildings works much better.

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1068/b38043

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