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few more from last night hit and run, very similar this one as the last but lit the top of the monument in this ,did think the spot on these was dust on the lens as had to wipe a few bits off during some shots, but having reviewed them this morning realised that the dust is on the sensor as fastchris pointed out ...sigh ....oh well !
WX tower in Warwick was pretty quiet on a recent Friday afternoon. The tower no longer controls switches and signals and is used by the CSX maintenance of way forces.
"K10" Twenty Interlocking Tetrahedra #4 120 units 2-fold view.
Now that I am on summer break, I couldn't be expected to only do refolds of older designs. ;-)
I have done several compounds of 20 tetrahedra before, but all have been lacking either aesthetically or in terms of visual complexity. I think this one is the best of both, and as such, it is my favorite 20 tetrahedron compound yet. It is also the next 20 compound of 3-gon based shapes, so I added it to the "K" naming series which began so long ago. I might give this a refold sometime soon. xD
Designed by me.
Folded out of copy paper.
Five Interlocking Truncated Tetrahedra #2, designed by Byriah Loper, folded by me.
Another wireframe, finally! By far the most fun wireframe in a while. This one is not too hard, but pretty nice and challenging too. Not the ones you would pull your hair on, because of stress. :P
I finally got to actually fold this after a while, because, you know...illustrating stuff.
Enjoy!
Paper : 20*5 cm and 9*5 cm kami.
My first upload of 2012 which was taken yesterday morning when there was a slight covering of frost, which can be seen in the foreground. I've visited here a few times but never been able to come away happy but I find the colours really nice in this shot. The sun was just rising so the foreground grasses have a little glow about them as does the hawthorn bush.
The northbound track geometry train had the OTHER set of CSX F units on the point! Both sets of Fs by Haley within an hour of each other ... they would have met at Pimento or maybe Sullivan!
The mind, it boggles.
And that's Clee looking out of the tower window. He didn't manage to stay away from the tower for very long! :)
Before Metra's tie-up yard migrated west to Elburn, this was the scene in West Chicago. It looks a bit different years later.
The rusty old model board inside HX Tower shows a track alignment that was last relevant over 15 years ago.
This plant is the plant I built the mechanical interlocking machine for. The siding will lead into staging/yard space so an operator can control movements onto the main loops.
The former Warteck brewery in Basel is a landmark of industrial architecture that has been carefully adapted for new uses. Central to the transformation is the external staircase designed by Miller & Maranta. More than just circulation, it becomes a defining architectural gesture that connects the different levels of the building while highlighting the contrast between the historic structure and its contemporary reinterpretation.
Die ehemalige Warteck-Brauerei in Basel ist ein Wahrzeichen der Industriearchitektur, das sorgfältig für neue Nutzungen angepasst wurde. Zentrales Element dieser Transformation ist die Außentreppe von Miller & Maranta. Sie ist nicht nur ein Erschließungselement, sondern ein architektonisches Statement, das die verschiedenen Ebenen des Gebäudes verbindet und den Kontrast zwischen der historischen Struktur und ihrer zeitgenössischen Neuinterpretation hervorhebt.
Clinton Street tower is seen from the cab car door of an inbound Northwest Line scoot. Saturday, March 31st 1984. Mark Ratzer photo.
Cloudy day, common power...at first thought this slide wouldn't have rated a visit to the scanner while going thru my images from 15 years ago. But after a closer look, realized this is probably the only slide in the collection that shows the entire setup of Southern Railway-era signals at the interlocking with the former L&N (now Alabama & Tennessee River) Mineral Belt line in Attalla. For all the time I spent along the AGS growing up and on frequent visits back in the years right after college, never made any special effort to shoot the signals. They were just Southern tri-lights that will be around forever, right? Seemed that way up until NS picked the AGS North as one of the districts to test out installing PTC, and once that started the old signals (except for a couple of stragglers) were replaced by modern "Vader" ones in a hurry by early 2012. Another lesson to shoot everything, as you never know when the next big thing will arrive and change things in an instant.
Given the dreadful weather and being a Sunday, I must have been headed home to Auburn after a weekend at the parental's in Albertville and stopped in for one quick shot as 164 heads north to Chattanooga 15 years ago today. At least back then those DC Gevos still looked decent even if they were as boring as they are now.
This view from Cherry Street NW gives a good perspective of the Mace interlocking. The southbound Ohio Central train will briefly get on the NS Fort Wayne Line and just as quickly exit it. Instead of a diamond, the R.J. Corman Cleveland Line crosses the Fort Wayne Line on a pair of switches.
The Shadow Conspiracy Interlock Chain spiral. www.thebicycleescape.com
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Six Interlocking Real Pentagrams v.2 30 units
In my hand.
This was the second of two surprise models I had for the OUSA Convention this year. After seeing successive models from Francesco Mancini, Leong Cheng Chit, Jared Needle, Robert Lang of six five-pointed stars, I thought it was about time that someone make a real pentagrams. To keep the dihedral angles up, I add some wrinkles. I am considering making a new compound based on this where each frame is a pentagrammoidal decahedron.
Designed by me.
Folded out of Mohawk Skytone paper.
Five Interlocking Truncated Tetrahedra #2 (Byriah Loper) - In hand
Once again, this model could've taken me a lot less time to make, but school got in the way (again). It was a bit tedious to make all 90 units, and a bit of frustration assembling. I used a mix of bottom-up and frame-by-frame for this one. Suprisingly, though, it's rather loose. Oh well... Other than that, an awesome model by Byriah Loper!
Paper: Copy
Size: 1.25 x 2.25 and 1.25 x 5
90 Units
In hand view
PS: I think I'm only the second person to recreate this :-D
Today I made a pair of interlocking arches. The challenging thing about this one is that, since they are two dimensional, the slightest nudge can topple each arch over.
Five Interlocking Truncated Tetrahedra #2 90 units 2-fold view.
A new wireframe design, one that I have known was possible for a long time. This solidifies the 20 Triangles compound into a sturdy, decent compound. It has a very Daniel Kwan-esque look to it, which is probably appropriate given that he designed the first 5 Truncated Tetrahedra compound. A cp is up for it, if anyone cares.
Designed by me.
Folded out of Astrobrights copy paper.
Yesterday I had the pleasure to meetup with WintersRead from deviantArt (and my very first meet up too!). He's a pretty chill fella :D
The idea of doing meet ups with local artists has actually intrigued me; getting to know the artist, their aesthetics, and how they work in comparison to me just fascinates me. Besides, I really do need to get out more and venture where I'm not comfortable (distance-wise) because I'm having much more diverse photos in my gallery--and I actually have more photos than I usually take in a month lol.
The last time I captured a photo like this was when Stargazer was taken two years ago. I actually do capture out-of-focus photos as much as I do capture something in focus, but they're all not up to par with my expectations. This one, however, really caught my eye. Like something I'd see in a dream; submerged underwater and facing the surface looking at a clockwork.....bokeh dispenser??????
6 Interlocking Irregular Hyperboloidal Polarly Diminished Quasi-Crossed Triangular Prisms 42 units
3-fold vertex.
This one was much too loose before, and needed a refold. Here the proportions are much more suitable.
Designed by me.
Folded out of Kraft paper. (I don’t normally use this for Wireframes, but I think it worked out fairly well here.)