Can you tell what this design is for?
A month in the making, she will make her maiden launch tonight….
23 responses to “A Different Kind of Rocket”
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In the flickr thumbnail it looked like a knitting design or a yarn bombed rocket
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The design of a new toy football to toss around?
Possibly with a Pez Candy dispenser? Press the round button in the middle, candy drops from the back?
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Is the rocket actually covered with those pale blue dot thingies?
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I’ll guess LED covered rocket.
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Pretty sure it’s Marvin the Martian’s spaceship.
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Serious guess: a sideways line fired rocket. The wing shape generates lift on a sideways launch automatically pushing it upwards in a gradual arc.
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one of a trillion nanorockets loaded with an environmental army of the first self replicating synthetically designed microbes due to be launched into the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, consuming the oil as fuel and excreting water as a by product.
hence, the green coloured rocket head, boosters, and the lifesaver shaped command console protruding from the side:)
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Taking flight in Second Life?
Or did you pick up a RepRap? Which built a rocket with a RepRap as payload, and self-replication instructions (and a survival instinct)?
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Heh,, Knowing what this is, I would not have guessed that it would be such a confounder….
Some great aspirational guesses…
Todd is correct that this went to a 3D printer (like RepRap) but that was an interim step.
Pieces of Eye: yes, and with some color blending, the visual effect may look somewhat similar, but during the daytime
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It looks like a beverage dispenser to me. A button over a disc shaped spout and the shape of the rocket accommodates a beverage cup or glass underneath. Sort of a retro-modern coffee urn.
If that isn’t it, then it may be a computer case. Regardless, it doesn’t look very stable if you pushed against it and it definitely isn’t aerodynamic with the thick leading edge of those fins.
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hmm… Looks more like Duck Dodger’s spaceship than Marvin’s to me….
the fins look like they’d decent stabilization, but no lift really and their shape is wrong for control surfaces. I’m guessing they stabilize while it spins. those nozzles at the bottom are weird.
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heh, you are the closest, with a girl cake not cube!
Well, unfortunately, I have to hit the road before seeing how this all plays out.
It’s a rocket pendant for a necklace. All of the facets are diamonds, and the flame out the back is a ruby.
The CAD/CAM program generates a pretty photorealistic image of the rocket, and calculates how it will hang based on an estimated weight balance.
The only main difference is that the pave diamonds are more densely packed in the final build. I also picked a deeper cut ruby from a pile they had on hand…
The ruby rocket layout then goes to a 3D printer, to create a scale representation of its shape. This was also sent to the jewelers overseas for a reality check.
The design shop never saw a gemstone mounted backwards before. But I wanted to maximize the lateral flame visible, not the internal reflections.
And here she is:
When I showed it to some of the ladies at work, the first impression was inevitably a raised eyebrow and a muted uh-hum… What was I thinking? Designing jewelry around my hobby… So I was a bit worried when the maiden curiously plied the box wrappings. And the countdown to launch began in my mind…
Shortie likes it! I find myself staring at it across the dinner table, and realizing that it serves a perfect function – it’s mesmerizing and fetching for me, but not so much for the other guys. Mission accomplished. =)
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Ah, that makes sense, I was trying to figure out why the round thigns were there and failing…
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Next you can design a few eggs…
(Faberge)
Jewelery design is fun…unless you get carried away.
I did a pendant with a sun/planet concept…
Mixed reviews…despite a fine carbon based sun…
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