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Published: 2005-04-22 22:14:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 1139; Favourites: 15; Downloads: 26
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about 25 '' long and made of paper (each shell is exactly 1 sheet of 22x30'' 2-ply bristol) and glued with regular ol' elmer'sThey are two shells lying together. Maybe someday I'll get around to photographing them individually. Even though they both have the same plans, they look completely different from one another, and vary incredibly by changing viewpoints.
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Hey that looks amazing. It would be great if you took photographs from different angles. Its seems like a very tedious job, (based on your description on how you made it).
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may have been time consuming and boring but wellll worth it, it looks amazing!!!
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This is absolutely brilliant and complete underrated.
I'd love to try and understand how you made it, but I got confused about 2 lines into your explanation above.
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Wow these are great. I'm looking hard at the picture but I don't quite understand how they were constructed...?
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oh PS, only the top ribs need to be glued. The bottom rung of them just fits inside the top of the shell below it. This allows it to be more amorphous, as I found. The rear shell is glued on both sides and therefor its shape is fairly determined by the angle at which the tips are glued. The other shell though, you can pull it apart and stretch it or make it more compact. It will take whatever form you give it based on the stress of the curve you twist it into. You can see the lines of the plans on the inside of the shell that is open to the camera. That is the spine I was speaking of. The dotted line is the center line.
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Each one is made with one big sheat of bristol paper. A triangle is measured and cut from the paper such that the base of it is the same width as the narrow top of the piece left over. They are lightly overlapped (about 3/8 inch) and glued with Elmer's. The final triangle is about 3 and a half feet long. I don't exactly remember the angle of cut, but it's a right triangle. I designed it on the computer and printed it using one of those huge architectural printers. drew a line for the spine from the top point to the center of the base and gave it about an inch and a half wide at the bottom, and redrew the thickness to intersect at the tip. Cut ribs in increasing width from top to bottom (no two ribs are the same exact width), glued one tip to the next but not exactly one on top of the other, otherwise the shell won't progress and move, it'll just grow ontop of itself and consume itself. It's really neat because you only use a dab of glue for connecting the tip of these ribs (and occasionally the edges) and the two sheets of paper. Getting started is the hardest part, after that it just sorta makes itself.
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its always fun to see how things designed to be the same can end up so different.
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that's neat. it looks just a little like that opera house in sydney, in a really strange way.
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