Dear Mr Bishop
All the best for your voyage to WCI. Even though you won't be here.
It's been a pretty cool semester, with all your crazy stories and ideas.
Anyways, seeya.
Jake
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Monday, June 16, 2008
Day 17
It is Monday today. I made and printed my mini-me. I also put together a sample board, if you can call it that. My model is pretty much done, just some final things. Otherwise all of the aspects of my project have been put into a hard copy portfolio.
Friday, June 13, 2008
Day 16?
I am going to make sure my whole physical portfolio is done by Monday.
I have already handed in some sketches (I plan to do more) and I have the blog done, but I am going to get everything collected.
So the PLANS (ie what would have happened) is all in this blog. My hopes and dreams and the like.
I am going to make a compartment to hold the elevator and counterweight. It'll be 28 cm high, and-if the elevator is 3.6 cm- about 8 cm across. That'll make for 15ish shafts.
The original plan.
aww yee.
There will be the elevator peopleholder and a counterweight (would be 40% of the weight). At the top of the shaft in the centre, there will be a platform sticking out that holds the gears and such.
I also, if time allows, try one that uses a screw pillar.
I have already handed in some sketches (I plan to do more) and I have the blog done, but I am going to get everything collected.
So the PLANS (ie what would have happened) is all in this blog. My hopes and dreams and the like.
I am going to make a compartment to hold the elevator and counterweight. It'll be 28 cm high, and-if the elevator is 3.6 cm- about 8 cm across. That'll make for 15ish shafts.
The original plan.
aww yee.
There will be the elevator peopleholder and a counterweight (would be 40% of the weight). At the top of the shaft in the centre, there will be a platform sticking out that holds the gears and such.
I also, if time allows, try one that uses a screw pillar.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Day 15
I printed off the marking sheet to make sure that I can have everthing ready over the weekend for Monday.
Hopefully to do the ramp today.
Hopefully to do the ramp today.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Day 14
LAST POST.
Do dooooooooooooo.
do dooooooooooooo.
do do dundun do do dooo do do do.
da dun do dandundo dandundo dandundodo dandundo dandandundundandando.
Well... today I want to figure out how i would cut out the shape for the ramp so that it doesn't tilt. The final shape will be a circle with the correct chunk taken out.
I don't know if i'll have to compensate the tilt by making a different shape.
Wow, how helpful.
SEACREST OUT.
Do dooooooooooooo.
do dooooooooooooo.
do do dundun do do dooo do do do.
da dun do dandundo dandundo dandundodo dandundo dandandundundandando.
Well... today I want to figure out how i would cut out the shape for the ramp so that it doesn't tilt. The final shape will be a circle with the correct chunk taken out.
I don't know if i'll have to compensate the tilt by making a different shape.
Wow, how helpful.
SEACREST OUT.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Day 13
Today we are going to the Tech room.
I will try to begin the ramps in this time, drawing/mathing/building.
They will be made out of the sheet stuff that you, Mr Bishop, have provided.
I think.
By starting across from the finish (this is regarding the ramp), I believe that the incline will be managable for the general population.
There will be, as before, 1 ramp from floor to 2nd, and 1 ramp from 2nd to 3rd. Hopefully, they will start and end beside each other on the 2nd level, for convenience's sake.
I'm not sure if that's how you spell that saying.
SO that is my goal for today. Ramps.
If a person is 1/2 m wide (accounting for a small personal bubble), the ramp should be able to fit 10 people walking beside each other.
So, a 5 m width. Or 5 cm.
Then there's also the angular roof, and some short railings for liability reasons.
5 m also compensates for any movement of large items.
I think that I want the ramps to be a semicircle. For the general looks.
From the top, it'll look like kinda an... O. Like an O.
I built up to that because for some reason I thought it would be a cool, obscure shape.
Ah well.
I'm outta here.
I will try to begin the ramps in this time, drawing/mathing/building.
They will be made out of the sheet stuff that you, Mr Bishop, have provided.
I think.
By starting across from the finish (this is regarding the ramp), I believe that the incline will be managable for the general population.
There will be, as before, 1 ramp from floor to 2nd, and 1 ramp from 2nd to 3rd. Hopefully, they will start and end beside each other on the 2nd level, for convenience's sake.
I'm not sure if that's how you spell that saying.
SO that is my goal for today. Ramps.
If a person is 1/2 m wide (accounting for a small personal bubble), the ramp should be able to fit 10 people walking beside each other.
So, a 5 m width. Or 5 cm.
Then there's also the angular roof, and some short railings for liability reasons.
5 m also compensates for any movement of large items.
I think that I want the ramps to be a semicircle. For the general looks.
From the top, it'll look like kinda an... O. Like an O.
I built up to that because for some reason I thought it would be a cool, obscure shape.
Ah well.
I'm outta here.
Monday, June 9, 2008
More Day 12
Ok so Eric just broke the fan.
NOT A GOOD LEARNING ENVIRONMENT.
Ha. Learning environment.
Ummmmmmmmmmmm yeah.
So my contribution thus far has been 95% cerebral, 3% crappy drawings, 4% other stuff.
I realize I do not know how to build things.
Hmmmmmm.
This post is mainly the result of heat.
The elevators seem to be the bane of my tech existance. They are necessary, but so devilishly difficult.
Well, maybe they aren't, but I don't know what would work, so I try to keep it 'simple' while balancing some kind of wannabe art.
The sphere could be a good idea.
peace again.
NOT A GOOD LEARNING ENVIRONMENT.
Ha. Learning environment.
Ummmmmmmmmmmm yeah.
So my contribution thus far has been 95% cerebral, 3% crappy drawings, 4% other stuff.
I realize I do not know how to build things.
Hmmmmmm.
This post is mainly the result of heat.
The elevators seem to be the bane of my tech existance. They are necessary, but so devilishly difficult.
Well, maybe they aren't, but I don't know what would work, so I try to keep it 'simple' while balancing some kind of wannabe art.
The sphere could be a good idea.
peace again.
Day 12
Today was a thinking day. I tried to visualize what the city should look like. I still believe that for this project, I will need the physical model.
I added more to the drawings I did on Friday. I also tried to think about how exactly the elevators will go up the pillar, what the incline of the ramps will be, how to support the ramps, and the rising challenge I had neglected: the actual roadways of the levels. Based on the drawings, it looks as though the streets will be relatively boring and straight, so they will reach everywhere. In every set of 4 plots, there will be roadways etween them, and something like a roundabout in the centre. This is also necessary so that space is not taken up in other people's plans.
It would be great, I would guess, if the roads could be supported...like in the air...
Than again, it would also be great if we had hovercars that propelled soley on the magnetism of the Earth's core.
So I digress.
The actual ramp would have to be made of something light enough to be supported. It would be great if I could use cobblestones, and mortar it and all...but I don't know if it would work.
I still want a roof that WOULD be solar panels. For the model...it'll probably be paper.
It would be awesome if PHS wasn't so welfare.
And if the Tech Dept wasn't considered the fallback area.
And we had the people, time and resources to actually make a city.
Out of actual stuff.
Hey, there's a ranty field assignment.
...Not. No it's just jokes.
peace.
I added more to the drawings I did on Friday. I also tried to think about how exactly the elevators will go up the pillar, what the incline of the ramps will be, how to support the ramps, and the rising challenge I had neglected: the actual roadways of the levels. Based on the drawings, it looks as though the streets will be relatively boring and straight, so they will reach everywhere. In every set of 4 plots, there will be roadways etween them, and something like a roundabout in the centre. This is also necessary so that space is not taken up in other people's plans.
It would be great, I would guess, if the roads could be supported...like in the air...
Than again, it would also be great if we had hovercars that propelled soley on the magnetism of the Earth's core.
So I digress.
The actual ramp would have to be made of something light enough to be supported. It would be great if I could use cobblestones, and mortar it and all...but I don't know if it would work.
I still want a roof that WOULD be solar panels. For the model...it'll probably be paper.
It would be awesome if PHS wasn't so welfare.
And if the Tech Dept wasn't considered the fallback area.
And we had the people, time and resources to actually make a city.
Out of actual stuff.
Hey, there's a ranty field assignment.
...Not. No it's just jokes.
peace.
Friday, June 6, 2008
Day 11
I drew pictures today.
Because it is too hot.
They were of elevators, some scale, some just pictures.
Because it is too hot.
They were of elevators, some scale, some just pictures.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Day 10
I tried to use Softplan.
I couldn't, so I moved on to Autocad.
Which didn't work out, so I tried Illustrator.
Which can't give me a 3D elevator.
So my drawing will have to be a drawing, and my model will be my trial.
I am fairly confident in my ability to make a ramp once the model comes into being.
The 'entrance' to the model I think will be pillars, keeping with the new theme.
They will also provide support for the ramp.
The interior of the elevator will be seating, around the interior circumference. The floor of the sphere will be flattened, for the basic idea that you can't stand in a sphere.
The sphere will be mostly glass, as well as ...metal. Nice, materialy seating, and bus-like feeling, because it really is replacing public transport.
If the floor was flattened, the height would still have to be about 2 m.
I don't think industrial elevators are needed (unless there's a central one) due to the shortness of the ramps.
I couldn't, so I moved on to Autocad.
Which didn't work out, so I tried Illustrator.
Which can't give me a 3D elevator.
So my drawing will have to be a drawing, and my model will be my trial.
I am fairly confident in my ability to make a ramp once the model comes into being.
The 'entrance' to the model I think will be pillars, keeping with the new theme.
They will also provide support for the ramp.
The interior of the elevator will be seating, around the interior circumference. The floor of the sphere will be flattened, for the basic idea that you can't stand in a sphere.
The sphere will be mostly glass, as well as ...metal. Nice, materialy seating, and bus-like feeling, because it really is replacing public transport.
If the floor was flattened, the height would still have to be about 2 m.
I don't think industrial elevators are needed (unless there's a central one) due to the shortness of the ramps.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Day 8-9
I wrote a post,
but it got deleted.
The elevators are going to be spheres.
Diameter of 3.5 m, with 15 cm walls, so an interior space of 3.2 m.
I am also contemplating something in the centre of the pillar.
Like a huge elevator.
Massive.
Daunting.
With multiple entrances.
And exits.
The circumference of the interior is 10 m.
Average person is (insert width), so the thing could hold anywhere from 10-18 people?
That would make the counterweight... 1600 lbs-ish.
40% of max weight, is person is 200 lbs and there are 20 people capacity.
There would be anywhere from 15-20 elevators.
That gives a possibilty for ... 400 people to move at once.
Max, it'll end up being less.
Glass up and down the path, glass ball, so you can see.
Cables, I discussed other methods with peers, such as a corkscrew option, but to no practical avail.
but it got deleted.
The elevators are going to be spheres.
Diameter of 3.5 m, with 15 cm walls, so an interior space of 3.2 m.
I am also contemplating something in the centre of the pillar.
Like a huge elevator.
Massive.
Daunting.
With multiple entrances.
And exits.
The circumference of the interior is 10 m.
Average person is (insert width), so the thing could hold anywhere from 10-18 people?
That would make the counterweight... 1600 lbs-ish.
40% of max weight, is person is 200 lbs and there are 20 people capacity.
There would be anywhere from 15-20 elevators.
That gives a possibilty for ... 400 people to move at once.
Max, it'll end up being less.
Glass up and down the path, glass ball, so you can see.
Cables, I discussed other methods with peers, such as a corkscrew option, but to no practical avail.
Monday, June 2, 2008
Day 6-7
I didn't do a post on the Friday, cause I tried to draw stuff.
There's a central 'trunk', I learned Friday.
The elevators are inside the trunk. Along with other stuff. Pipes'n'junk.
Uhhh... I'm trying to think of some artsy, symbolic way to make the elevators, and nothing is coming.
I want glass fo sho.
So if the elevators were outside the trunk, the box would be glass.
If they were in the trunk, the path along the elevator route would be glass so you can see as you travel.
Ok, we have elevators in the trunk.
I don't really want a box, I want something generally interesting.
Half of a cylinder?
Talked about having some freaky, vertical ski lift.
I think it's cool, but not gonna happen.
So I think I'll use some cylinder type car, regular cable elevators, inside the trunk, unsure about glass on the trunk so you can see as you ride, and there will be multiple.
What will go in the big middle space?
The ramps are pretty much settled as they are, looping out from one point to another end of the chord.
Uh, I guess that's it. It's hard to find out what these elevators would look like.
There's a central 'trunk', I learned Friday.
The elevators are inside the trunk. Along with other stuff. Pipes'n'junk.
Uhhh... I'm trying to think of some artsy, symbolic way to make the elevators, and nothing is coming.
I want glass fo sho.
So if the elevators were outside the trunk, the box would be glass.
If they were in the trunk, the path along the elevator route would be glass so you can see as you travel.
Ok, we have elevators in the trunk.
I don't really want a box, I want something generally interesting.
Half of a cylinder?
Talked about having some freaky, vertical ski lift.
I think it's cool, but not gonna happen.
So I think I'll use some cylinder type car, regular cable elevators, inside the trunk, unsure about glass on the trunk so you can see as you ride, and there will be multiple.
What will go in the big middle space?
The ramps are pretty much settled as they are, looping out from one point to another end of the chord.
Uh, I guess that's it. It's hard to find out what these elevators would look like.
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