(2025-05-09, 5:27)Peter Blomberg Wrote: Well, there are also parts like 99206 which are 2 plates high and typically categorized as a plate. One third is also a fraction...
It is, and that particular fraction of a brick has been associated with the definition of a "plate" since its inception in the 1960s. The same can't be said of the â…” fraction.
Part of the complexity, also, is that "brick" means the unit-height piece, of which a plate is one-third, as well as parts that are multiples of that height, like the 1x1x5 column. In deference to my own arguments, perhaps this second usage is inappropriate, but I don't have a better idea at the moment.
In the case of 99206, that goes with brackets or SNOT or whatever we decide to call that category, so no problem there. And there are definitely other parts that are essentially a plate, but with some modification. Bricklink, logically, calls these "Plate, modified". (This raises the elephant-in-the-room question of what, once we go through the entire process here, have we achieved that is different from what various other categorizers have done?)
Quote:'SNOT pieces' include brackets, bricks with studs on the side, and plates with studs on the side. It would indeed be valuable to have them separated from the other bricks and plates not having studs on the side. However, I would not feel comfortable having SNOT without brackets.
Nor would I, I just mean that "bracket" isn't the right name for the category as whole since it's not descriptive of their shape. The bracket parts still belong to the category (or maybe are a sub-type of it).