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Paper: 7.5 cm
Modules: 3
Model: Tomoko Fuse
Book: Unit Origami Essence p.38
Nice, fast fold. No glue.
One more photo of the other type of vertex in my stream.
Edit: Replace photo by a better one.
ODC2 topic Cube
These are ice cubes made with food colouring. Froze them this morning to take the picture this afternoon.
I have more shots of this, which I will post, 'cause it's so freaking cool. Terminal 1, Pearson Airport, Toronto
A very simple wood sculpture of 3 squares on 3 axis to form the basics of a cube. Its nice on its corners like this, or just laying flat on a table.
In 1983 I won the Swedish Young Inventor's competition FinnUpp 83 with the entry of making the design of a cube with five squares on each side instead of the three found in the Rubik's Cube.
The animation I created in 3D Studio and the models in AutoCAD R13 around 1995-96.
The music is excerpts from the Swedish group Twice A Man.
The story behind this bland photo could be a short one like ‘just because’ but it isn’t. It’s a long story – grab a cuppa :)
There’s a person, who up til a few years ago, often made the observation that I had kept every off-cut, spare part or additional materials from every project I had ever made, designed or fixed. Now this observation is not entirely accurate but well justified; just change the word ‘every’ to ‘most’ and I was guilty. My reasons were always the same. The item was perfectly good and in my eyes, a sin to throw away and ‘it could be useful one day’.
Then a few years ago I came to the realisation that most of my ‘one days’ were already behind me and if an item hadn’t had it’s ‘one day’ in the last 40+ years it was very unlikely to have it in the ever diminishing ‘one days’ ahead of me.
Thus I decided to severely reduce the amount of stuff I had accumulated, which is fair to say was a lot, as I have fixed and made many things over the years. I found good homes for some of it and recycled more of it, but unfortunately, in the end, some of it ended up at the municipal tip – something that I still struggle with. The concept of a civilisation discarding perfectly useful materials makes no sense to me. Not everything has gone but I’m probably getting towards the pointy end.
Now just hold onto all that lot.
The other day we were walking through Bunnings when we spied a rigid plastic sheet that was shiny black on one side and shiny white on the other and immediately thought that it would be an excellent thing for photography. There was an issue however, as the sheet was 1200 x 800mm, far too large and cumbersome for practical use. So we cut it in half into two sheets of 800 x 600mm. One half has been used for just two photos to date www.flickr.com/photos/153787832@N02/55090158200/in/datepo...
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Back to thought one. What was to become of the unused half??
Under the new rules it either had to be disposed of or it’s ‘one day’ had to be ‘today’. I know what, I thought, a shiny black cube!
So I cut six 260mm squares, eight 38mm cubes of wood for the corners, drilled holes and used 24 of the many excess fasteners, that were still waiting for their ‘one day’, to hold it all together. Voila – one shiny black cube! On marvelling at this shiny black cube it immediately struck me that what it really needed were white dots. It just so happened that we had a roll of Cricut white vinyl but I didn’t fancy the concept of hand cutting twenty one 52mm circles.
Now before the big purge, I had made a CNC routing machine to which I could attach a drag knife to cut vinyl. However, that machine had been dismantled and the parts either reused or recycled. But at the time I couldn’t bring myself to dispose of the drag knives or holder. They were small items and probably wouldn’t be noticed :)
They had been patiently waiting for their ‘one day’ and it had finally arrived.
We still own a small desktop CNC milling machine, so all I had to do was make an adaptor to hold the drag knife where the spindle would normally sit and then trick the CAM processor into generating cutting codes for the drag knife. So I designed and 3D printed the adaptor,
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cut out the dots, laser cut a dot placement guide and stuck the dots onto the cube. Now we have a shiny black 260mm dice!
Hence this photo.
(Peter)
This papercraft is a Compound of Four Cubes, created by Bamboo Math & Kerguelen.
You can download this papercraft template here: Compound of Four Cubes Free Papercraft Download
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Kubuswoningen, or cube houses, are a set of innovative houses built in Rotterdam in The Netherlands, designed by architect Piet Blom in 1984. The houses are located on Overblaak Street, and beside the Blaak Subway Station. Blom tilted the cube of a conventional house 45 degrees, and rested it upon a hexagon-shaped pylon. There are 38 small cubes and two so called 'super-cubes', all attached to each other.
As residents are disturbed so often by curious passers-by, one owner decided to open a "show cube", which is furnished as a normal house, and is making a living out of offering tours to visitors.
The houses contain three floors:
- ground floor entrance
- first floor with living room and open kitchen
- second floor with two bedrooms and bathroom
- top floor which is sometimes used as a small garden
The walls and windows are angled at 54.7 degrees. The total area of the apartment is around 100 square meters, but around a quarter of the space is unusable because of the walls that are under the angled ceilings. [Wikipedia]
Official website: Cube Houses
Een kubuswoning is een woning in de vorm van een gekantelde kubus op een paal, ook wel paalwoning of boomwoning genoemd. In de jaren zeventig zijn er kubuswoningen gebouwd door de Nederlandse architect Piet Blom in Helmond en Rotterdam. Zijn basisidee, dat er gebouwd wordt op kolommen, zodat de ruimte onder de bebouwing openbaar kan blijven, was geïnspireerd door Le Corbusier.
In de kubuswoning van Blom zitten drie woonlagen: onderin het zogenoemde straathuis met de keuken en de woonkamer, tussenin het hemelhuis met ruimte voor studeer- en slaapkamers, en bovenin de loofhut, een driezijdige piramide met plaats voor een serre, een balkon of een bescheiden tuintje. In de zeshoekige kolom waarop de woning rust, bevinden zich de entree en het trappenhuis. [Wikipedia]
The office Cube. Routine seen from a different perspective.
By Andrés Bentancourt
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Created for the Serif User's Group monthly competition "Boxes."
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Background, mine. Rubik's cube made from my background as well.
Texture from Tanakawho. Thank you.
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Brushes by www.obsidiandawn.com
Vinyl Cube is a simple but versatile design object that allows artists to paint and or draw on it's smooth vinyl surface to create their own custom Vinyl Cube.
The Vinyl Cube emits light from within in various colours and is powered by a built in rechargeable battery unit. This particular Vinyl Cube was created by Chairman Ting.
The cube is now on sale at addtocart.bigcartel.com/
Vinyl Cube produced by Tangible Interaction.
Illustration art work and photography by Chairman Ting.
Assisted by Osler Zoo Photography
Check out the video here:
Follow the chairman:
Oui, un jour j'en ai eu marre des boules...
et c'est bien connu quand on a les boules, on fait des cubes
This is the out take from Week 18 and will be used to replace the actual Week 20 photo that was half assed and taken at 7PM last Friday as an attempt to fulfill my documentation of my 22 weeks in The Cube.
Since Week 18 was a shoot week and I worked so much in those 4 days on the road that it actually felt like 14 days, I feel it is totally within my Cube Life rights to post this.
This was a moment of peace as we were shooting upstairs and every step I took in this old hotel sent a creak up the two floors to where the audio guy was. I had no choice but to sit. In a n authentic period piece vinyl chair.
Locality: Morococha Mine, Department Junin, Peru
Size: Field of view is 1.3 inches.
Description: Octahedral crystals have corners truncated by cubes.
"Cube houses (Dutch: Kubuswoningen) are a set of innovative houses built in Rotterdam and Helmond in the Netherlands, designed by architect Piet Blom and based on the concept of "living as an urban roof": high density housing with sufficient space on the ground level. Blom tilted the cube of a conventional house 45 degrees, and rested it upon a hexagon-shaped pylon. His design represents a village within a city, where each house represents a tree, and all the houses together, a forest.
The houses in Rotterdam were designed in 1977 in a plan of 55, of which 39 were built.
The houses in Rotterdam are located on Overblaak Street, right above the Blaak Subway Station. There are 38 small cubes and two so called 'super-cubes', all attached to each other.
As residents are disturbed so often by curious passers-by, one owner decided to open a "show cube", which is furnished as a normal house, and is making a living out of offering tours to visitors.
The walls and windows are angled at 54.7 degrees. The total area of the apartment is around 100 square meters, but around a quarter of the space is unusable because of the walls that are under the angled ceilings.
In 2006, a museum of chess pieces was opened under the houses.
In 2009, the larger cubes were converted by Personal Architecture into a hostel run by Dutch hostel chain Stayokay."
Source: wikipedia.org
This is the cube before modification. Everyone in the building has the same exactly furniture and layout, expect me (now).
The Cube Project - A Collaborative LEA Project
Bryh Oh, board member for the LEA project, and famous SL artist, has recently begun collaborating a huge project with some simple rules. “Twenty Sims. Black and White Cubes. Five Days. Over 25 Artists. Shake Vigorously.” (Zachh Cale) So here it is, a cubist / minimalist art sim on a massive scale, with art from some of the most talented people on the grid.
For your ride and review visit www.ragelog.org/2012/08/the-cube-project-collaborative-le...
As I was looking to my calendar photo, I noticed that the 4 little lower photos give the impression of being cubes instead of rhombic dodecahedrons. That rreminded me the Cube Illusion of Nick Robinson, so I folded it. Do you see the 3D-cube-shape in the middle of the hexagon?
It is made from 3 rectangles A4/4 of copy paper.
Groovik's Cube is an electronic Rubik's Cube controlled by three station 30 meters apart located 120° around the cube. One of these stations is visible here. Each station controls only three out of the nine possible planes of rotation. Although the cube works like a regular Rubik's Cube, it was very challenging to solve because solving it required careful coordination of three faraway people in a noisy environment, and each person could see only half of the cube. It was solved about six times during the week. [079926]