Music Trend Diagramming

http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project_details.cfm?id=642&index=26&domain=Music



Visual Complexity is a great source for awesome infographics and other related things, for the record, and is definitely worth exploring.

Double curved surfaces, oh my!

Postin' to take Patrick's drypressing/bending methods.

Lego Jigsaw, prototype I

First pass at routing some prototype pieces of my proposed system.

Successes:

• It fits together!


• It's (reasonably) material efficient - the good majority of the surface area of the 2'x4' blank was used.


• It does seem to be pretty flexible in terms of application and very initial tests indicate it's fairly strong.


Failures so far:

• Need plywood without veneer, or I need a slightly sharper and deeper cutting job, so as to not have to shred and destroy it cleaning the cuts up.


• I messed up a bit on the placement of the passthru slots, I think


• I was aiming at 2'x1' pieces to fill up the 2'x4' blank, but given endmill overlap on the cuts I had to scale them down, resulting in some material inefficiency.

Pile of most of the veneer that I had to break off.

Explorations in Pop-up, IV-I

Used regular white printer/copier paper and 80lb construction paper. I was trying to accomplish these without using pull tabs and trying to keep them fairly contained, so I (particularly with the earlier two) was having issues with both rigidity and actually getting 3d volumes.