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Our Daily Challenge ... bricks.
I have just a few bricks left over from the garden edging. I will have to get some more before I can complete the last few metres
The day is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,
But at every gust the dead leaves fall,
And the day is dark and dreary.
My life is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
My thoughts still cling to the mouldering past,
But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast,
And the days are dark and dreary.
Be still, sad heart, and cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This is for those with Seasonal Affective Disorder and those who are just plain tired of winter.
Despite similar looks, this tessellation is not Momotani’s Wall — it is a different pattern designed by myself. Its relation to Momotani’s Wall is roughly such as the relation of Pythagorean Tiling to Rectangle and Square Flagstone.
The twists being placed around the rectangle with rotational but without axial symmetry lead to some interesting properties. First, the tessellation is not rectangular, although the staggered rectangles create a roughly rectangular outline whose sides are not parallel to the sides of the bricks. Second, unlike Momotani’s Brick Wall, the bricks in this design can be made with different proportions. The height is always two grid units and the length can be arbitrary as long as it’s at least two grid units. In this fold, the proportions are 3:2. The case with square bricks is the same design as Pythagorean Tiling with 1:1 ratio and the way I came up with the idea for Shifted Bricks was by modifying that model. It is even possible to mix different brick lengths in a single model as long as the length is consistent along each strip of bricks whose top and bottom edges are adjacent.
Shifted Bricks is an iso-area tessellation. In contrast to Momotani’s Wall, the bricks on both sides are parallel rather than perpendicular to each other. The direction of the slant between brick columns is mirrored between the sides. In the pictures you can see that I folded the model in such way that the front side is completely clean while the back side has some visible construction creases. Folding both sides cleanly seems possible for but rather tedious for larger grids (the model shown here is from 32×32 grid).
I will be teaching this model at the online CDO convention this November. If you want to try making a clean fold (with lots of precreasing), you can use the instructions I made available at origami.kosmulski.org/instructions/shifted-bricks
Our Daily Challenge
26 November 2011
Bricks ~ after falling down, I'm as black and blue as these bricks.
Yes, for the first time since October 2019, I've displayed models at a real-live LEGO event: Brick Féile, held just north of Dublin last weekend. It was fantastic to be around other LEGO fans again and to show models to the public, in a really friendly atmosphere.
The models are a subset of my movie car collection, which I last displayed in Manchester, in 2018. After that the models stayed in the UK, with the good people of Fairy Bricks, who were going to take them to Ireland for Brick Feile 2020. Due to the pandemic, this was postponed to 2022.
The models are getting old by now, but they were well looked after and the public loved them. And for me it was great to see them again, after four years!
HQ + Larger + On Black : www.dibec.com/brick.html
Vital Stats: ISO 100 24mm f7.1 15.0 Secs
This picture is part of a series in progress, a personal project, on the brick factories in Nepal.
This location is not included in the Expeditions we undertake.
I believe that there are certain boundaries were each human being, be it a photographer or not, has to make his own personal choice. This can not be a matter of touristic photographic trips..
Nomad Photographic Expedition is organising photographic expeditions to special locations within exotic destinations.
Come with me on my next trip: Nomad Photographic Expedition
Acompañame en mi próximo viaje: Nomad Expediciones Fotográficas
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A brick is a block or a single unit of a kneaded clay-bearing soil, sand and lime, or concrete material, fire-hardened or air-dried, used in masonry construction.
Lightweight bricks (also called "lightweight blocks") are made from expanded clay aggregate. Bricks are produced in numerous classes, types, materials, and sizes which vary with region and time period, and are produced in bulk quantities. Two basic categories of bricks are fired and non-fired bricks. Fired bricks are one of the longest-lasting and strongest building materials, sometimes referred to as artificial stone, and have been used since circa 5000 BC. Air-dried bricks, also known as mudbricks, have a history older than fired bricks, and have an additional ingredient of a mechanical binder such as straw. Bricks are laid in courses and numerous patterns known as bonds, collectively known as brickwork, and may be laid in various kinds of mortar to hold the bricks together to make a durable structure.
You do get to see interesting characters on the streets of Brick lane, more so on Friday nights.
Brick Lane, London/2014.
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My vision is seriously changing as we head into month two of our project. For an example, I now see in 4:3 Aspect Ratio.....hehe