There's an app for that.

I had this idea for an iphone app. It would be the worlds largest outdoor sculpture.
Your typical iphone has three basic spatial tools: an accelerometer, a GPS unit, and a camera.
Using this, i can create the location and orientation of a camera in three dimensional space.

now comes the cool part. I take this information and I use image processing algorithms to insert huge black cubes into the sky. Thousands of them. extending to infinity, row upon row, endless.

So yeah. There's (going to be) an app for that.
P.s. The image is my test. I wanted to see what it looked like. Im going to work on the perspective a bit more (maybe print it out and draw some lines, and I'll add some more cubes, just to show the final intended effect. The cubes need some texture, too. Or not.
DC

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I needed to form an epicyclic pattern using gears, so I designed the structure so that the outer edge of the planetary gear was allowed to spin uninhibited.
That is, if I put a marker on the edge of the outer gear, I'd get a pattern like the one to the right.

At the time I didn't know what a planetary gear was, but the art teacher for whom I'm making this mechanism showed me an interesting orrery from The Netherlands, made entirely with wooden spoke gears. I ended up consolidating the ring gear into an arm that held the outer gear onto the center. The center gear is going to be held stationary, while a slow RPM motor with INSANE torque will be turning the arm, which spins the outer gear. Its going to be a simple, but hopefully really effective, design.


Can't wait to upload the pics of the finished product! It should be pretty cool.

WYWFBING,
DC

Yeah, so.

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