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My latest project - influenced by Star Wars and other various sci-fi.
LDD File: www.dropbox.com/s/ah29bw6rw119cmb/Triangular%20Ship.lxf?dl=0
a load distribution concept that's well known for bridge structure. this shot was taken at tanjong rhu bridge, singapore.
Built on my desktop computer, not my iPad. Any App builders who happen to view this, please build an app that does triangular computations. This is a wonderful look, that needs to be an app:D
The last time I attempted to visit this strange building it was closed. But on this occasion I was more successful. It is owned by English Heritage.
This rather odd triangular building was designed by Sir Thomas Tresham (father of one of the Gunpowder Plotters) and constructed between 1593 and 1597. Like Lyveden New Bield, it is a testament to Tresham’s Roman Catholicism. The number three, symbolising the Holy Trinity, is apparent everywhere. There are three floors, trefoil windows and three triangular gables on each side. On the entrance front is the inscription ‘Tres Testimonium Dant’ (‘there are three that give witness’), a Biblical quotation from St John’s Gospel referring to the Trinity. It is also a pun on Tresham’s name; his wife called him ‘Good Tres’ in her letters.
Watching the sun rise from the summit of a volcano was an tranquil affair, interrupted only by the tumultuous shockwave from a nearby eruption thundering through the air. As the light from the eastern horizon slowly gained intensity, features and undulations slowly became more visible in the haze. Roads and farms formed intricate patterns in the valley that only started to come into light.
As the deep reds slowly turned orange and yellow in the east, the western horizon was still dark under the shadow of earth itself. The moon was the only anchor point steady in the sky as the Belt of Venus slowly arose. What I had not expected to see was the shadow of the volcano itself projected onto a neat triangular point into the west. Surprisingly, this shadow, and the accompany rays of darkness only became visible after the sun rose. I admired the distance to which this shadow was projected, and how long it actually lasted.
This image portrays the summit of the volcano at sunrise.
As bizarre as some French cars were, one was created more bizarre than all the others: the infamous Avantime, whose name is a combination of the French word “avant” (meaning “ahead”) and the English word “time.”
The Avantime was introduced for 2001 alongside the aforementioned Vel Satis. Supposedly combining the styling of a 2+2 coupe with the space of minivan, the Avantime concept was conceived by former Renault co-operative Matra, who dabbled in Formula 1 racing while building computers, bicycles, missles, and the Espace van. Matra intended the coupe-van-thing to cater to a younger generation of buyers who, as they saw it, grew up with the Espace and didn't want to grow too far apart from it.
Le Quement handled the styling and came up with a large-butted one-box shape with a pillarless daylight opening, a massive retractable glass roof, and huge doors. It was something that was truly unlike anything ever built before by an automaker, a huge two-door van that was guaranteed to leave onlookers with the most confused look on their faces. No one could figure out if they were looking at a car, a small land-fairing cruise liner, or something sculpted by Picasso turned into a parade float.
Though the design wasn’t without its engineering issues, Renault bested the better part of them with some interesting solutions. For example, the Avantime used a space frame made of strengthened aluminum to retain structural integrity in a side impact collision in spite of the fact there weren’t b-pillars. The huge doors used a clever double-hinged design to keep them manageable in tight parking situations. To keep weight down, the lower body panels were all composite.
Aside from the neat engineering details, the best part of the Avantime was it’s so called “grand air” mode in which all of the windows and the big sunroof were retracted for a very convertible-like experience. The feature was activated with the simple push of a button on the headliner. It was this particular experience that Avantime owners would come to treasure most in their cars.
The entire package came at a hefty cost though. Engineering costs for the Avantime’s double hinged doors and semi-convertible design racked up at a whopping 224€ million back at the turn of the century (about $286 million US dollars then and $358 million today). Those engineering costs would also be passed on to the buyer with the base sticker price starting at 29,000€ (about $37,000 USD then, $46,000 USD today). With a sticker price like that, those young, Espace-loving buyers that the Avantime was supposed to attract couldn’t afford it. Their parents, which could, weren’t interested because of the odd styling and general lack of practicality. The Avantime also faced in-house competition from the Vel Satis, whose appearance looked more conventional in comparison.
Sales of the Avantime totaled up to just 8,557 cars in May 2003, at which point the plug was pulled due to Matra’s decision to leave the automotive market partially due to the money lost developing and building the Avantime and Renault’s growing disinterest for the model.
In contrast, sales of the Vel Satis equaled up to 62,201 cars during it's production run from 2001 - 2009 (an average of about 7,000 cars a year).
The Avantime’s polarizing styling and concept coupled with its very costly but clever engineering and poor sales definitely make this one of the most jaw-dropping failures ever in the automotive industry. In spite of its name, over a decade later we still don’t know what time it was supposed to ahead of.
However, the detailing of the Renault Avantime was fantastic, with crazily angled figure-eight tail lights.
So, you ask yourself, why would I want one now? Well, pick up a cared-for example and you will be driving a low-cost luxury vehicle, the distinction of greater exclusivity than a Ferrari, a commanding driving position, and that impossible-to-define French trait - quirkiness. You'll also be driving one of the most overlooked vehicles in a segment only Renault could invent. Ultimately, it passes the only two tests worthy of note: it's one of only two cars all three Top Gear presenters like, and when you step up to it in the morning to take it for a drive, you will always feel yourself gripped by a sense of occasion.
Testing a pair of triangular rollers by placing a board and a coffee mug on them and pushing the board sideways. Blending multiple exposures illustrates the resulting motion.
A curve of constant width is a two-dimensional shape whose width, as measured with calipers, is the same, regardless of the orientation of the curve relative to the calipers. You can extrude such a curve into a three-dimensional roller that will have a constant height as you roll it around on a flat surface. A board supported by a pair of such rollers will move horizontally without any up and down motion. A circle is a curve of constant width, but it's not the only one; there are many others. A Reuleaux triangle (an equilateral triangle where each side is a circular arc centered on the opposite corner) also has constant width, and you can use it as the basis for rollers that look like they shouldn’t work at all. Inspired by my daughter's high school project I made an example out of wood.
Challenge #227 Triangular Composition
Taken during my evening walk. I like the triangles at the tip of the posts.
Variation on the traditional masu box by Tegan Mulholland.
Diagram is somewhere, but I'm unable to find the URL again, sorry.
Each lid/box made from hexagon cut in A4 copy paper.
Lids ornaments added by me, of course.
Originally posted to the Guess Where London group on 04-12-06.
Ten Equatorially Diminished Triangular Dipyramids (Aaron P) - In Hand
I made this model just before I left for sleepaway camp in June, but did not have time to post it until now. Although this model only requires 30 units, the double axes make it very impressive to look at and one of my favorites in my growing collection.
TEDTD - In Hand
Designed by Aaron P
Paper: Copy
Size: 1.5" x 11"
Units: 30
(Camera settings)
Camera: FinePix HS20EXR (FUJIFILM)
Focal Length: 8 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Aperture: f/3.6
Shutter Speed: 1/600 sec
Torneo triangular en el campo de la Pobla, contra el Maritim (4-1) y el Puig (3-0). Se ganó el triangular
Triangular Background graphic available for download at dryicons.com/free-graphics/preview/triangular-background/ in EPS (vector) format.
View similar vector graphics at DryIcons Graphics.
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