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"This weighted companion cube will accompany you through the test chamber. Please take care of it."
One of a set of Lightwave models I made and put up for download at Foundation3D.com.
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View of The Cube from the roof of the Library of Birmingham, In Birmingham, England.
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About The Cube
Birmingham’s iconic landmark, The Cube is a world-class destination standing tall across the city’s skyline. The outstanding 25-storey structure houses an impressive mix of prime office, retail and restaurant spaces, aspirational apartments, a boutique hotel, exclusive canal side restaurants, skyline champagne bar, luxury spa facilities, and the UK’s largest automated car park.
High profile names established at The Cube include Marco Pierre White’s Steakhouse Bar & Grill, The Club & Spa, Rodizio Rico Brazilian restaurant, Bun & Bowl burgers & shrimp, Shogun Teppanyaki, Madeleine fine coffee house and Hotel Indigo.
Perfectly situated in the heart of the city, The Cube is next to The Mailbox and a few minutes walk from the convention centre, The Bullring, Brindleyplace and New Street Station.
Birmingham born, award-winning architect, Ken Shuttleworth was chosen to create a truly outstanding building to marry the city’s industrial heritage with a vision of the future. Taking inspiration from Birmingham’s jewellery making tradition, he has designed what he describes as ‘an enchanting jewellery box’ rich with light and precious metal tones. The Cube’s unique style of intricate gold and bronze geometric shapes cover the exterior and glisten across the city.
The Nissan Cube is one of the very few cars where the right side differs from the left. This generation was introduced in Europe in 2010. The Cube was available over here for just a year as Nissan stopped sales in 2011.
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.
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)
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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Embassament de Cúber, Tramuntana, Mallorca, 2012
Das Embassament de Cúber und der etwa 2 km entfernte Gorg Blau sind die beiden größten Seen in der Tramuntana, dem Gebirgszug, der Mallorca vom Südwesten bis in den Norden durchzieht. Bei beiden Seen liegen auf etwa 750 m Höhe in der Nähe des Piug Major (mit 1.445 m der höchste Berg der Insel). Es handelt es sich um Stauseen, die der Trinkwasserversorgung der Region Palma dienen. Beide Seen sind Anfang der 1970er Jahre entstanden.
Zum Zeitpunkt des Fotos im Hochsommer 2012 war der See bereits teilweise entleert und der Seegrund war begehbar.
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The Embassament de Cúber and zhe Gorg Blau, about 2 km away, are the two largest lakes in the Tramuntana - the mountain range that runs through Mallorca from the southwest to the north. Both lakes are located at about 750 m altitude near the Piug Major (with 1,445 m the highest mountain on the island). These are reservoirs that serve the drinking water supply of the Palma region. Both lakes were created in the early 1970s.
At the time of the photo in midsummer 2012, the lake was already partially emptied and the lake bottom was walkable.