Extruded Escher

11 responses to “Extruded Escher”

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   jurvetson

   Apr 11, 2008 at 4:10 am

   Here’s a pair of inflated concentrator balloons, repurposed from a party supply store, and a tensegrity truss rigging structure to minimize materials cost. The balloons need to be replaced about once/year. (I’d call their array of cheap concentrators a “RAISC”)

   

   Gosh, I think they should make their first sales call to Hooters.

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   TomOwen

   Apr 11, 2008 at 4:29 am

   I saw this event from my office window.. had I know more about it I would have strolled down and said hello… Hope it all went well, I like the effort!

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   TomiTapio

   Apr 11, 2008 at 12:56 pm

   Oh, other half transparent. Hmm.

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   pfflyerpf

   Apr 11, 2008 at 3:43 pm

   hmm

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   biotron

   Apr 11, 2008 at 7:46 pm

   gorgeous – particularly the tapered upper left… and such a great idea.

   RAISC = ?

   tensegrity 🙂 – good old Bucky… great design science bulletins to be found here at the dedicated BFI site.

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   PhOtOnQuAnTiQuE

   Apr 11, 2008 at 8:30 pm

   "warped by an inflated parabolic solar concentrator blablablacantunderstandasingleword" = you mean transwarping
   …of course !!?!! =P

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   jurvetson

   Apr 11, 2008 at 9:58 pm

   hmm, they just fold space. Gets me every time.

   @biotron: like RAID, Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Solar Collectors. I think the neighborhood kids would be tempted to pop them. 😉

   Oh, I just remembered something interesting…. I took a bunch of shots toward the center of the mirror, but my hand and camera are not visible in any of the shots. I wonder if this is like a mirror lens…

   

   ..where the focus is at a great distance, and objects right in front of the lens don’t show up at all.

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   PhOtOnQuAnTiQuE

   Apr 12, 2008 at 12:48 am

   "objects right in front of the lens don’t show up at all."

   I was having dinner, playing with the glass of water and things on the table with reflection (fork, bottle of wine …What ? I am french !! ..etc ) looking for all the light sources reflected. But couldn’t find some at first because of the warping…or wine..not sure…
   The point was =) Reminded me this picture i saw earlier..and connected (at the desert O=) with Ghost in The Shell :

   A crazy Answer could come from a " Stand Alone " question :

   Is there something strange about the first picture..of a man shaving in front of a mirror… If so…what is it…?
   

   Then you notice that, there is not camera…reflection of the person..but no camera. How come ? (yeh yeh, it s a manga so they drew whatever they wanted = )

   Their answer is…there are nanomachines, "Intercepters"implanted in the person’s brain. Hacking his "visual information" and sending or recording it, like a camera would.

   So…are you some kind of NanoCyborg already Steve ? Or could your camera have been hacked by nanobots =P

   Bon week end.

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   avlxyz

   Apr 15, 2008 at 2:22 am

   interesting RAISC idea.
   could be useful for deploying a helium-filled wireless antenna too!

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    rdavidschwartz

    May 29, 2008 at 11:29 pm

    cool effect !

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    Corinne Okada Takara

    May 30, 2010 at 1:00 am

    Beautiful image! Wish I saw it in person. Thank you for shaing.

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