Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Final Chair on Duality and Assembly


Here's a photo to give you an idea of proportion: 4'x8' sheets of cardboard

Planning out my cuts in Illustrator made my final cutting process run smoothly

Lots of cutting: 17 sections to be exact

Pre-Assembly

Everything cut and ready to be Assembled

Assembly: I started by joining the largest back section with the side sections.
The back is a 3ft diameter circle 
Assembly

Once the back and side sections were joined, I started adding the front sections

Assembly

Assembly
I had an issue with the last front section being too large, so I had to make a few adjustments.
I removed an inch from the top and added an inch to the depth of the slots.

Next, I started adding the back sections

Back Assembly

Back Assembly
Final Chair: Front

Final Chair: Side

Final Chair: Front/Side

Final Chair: Back/Side 

Final Chair: Back/Side

Final Chair: Back

Final Chair: Side

Final Chair: Front/Side


Final Chair: Top/Front

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Putting prototypes to scale

My head is about to explode. I've been doing so much math on Illustrator, trying to plan out my cuts on the 4'x8' piece of cardboard, that I'm starting to think this is going to be a lot more work than I anticipated. However, if I don't plan my cuts, I could easily spend more money on cardboard that I would like.
Then it occurred to me: if I make general circle templates (since a lot of the diameters correspond to different sections in the chair) I can use those to help create my pieces. I'm hoping this will make the math in my head a little easier.

Also, Margie had requested that we post a photo of our significant other, since so many of us focused our relationship representing duality on a boyfriend/girlfriend.

Here's a photo of Justin and me when we went to an Oklahoma City Thunder game.

And here's a photo of us after a kickball game this summer! Note the different jerseys :)