lancer525
10-15-2009, 08:55 PM
Okay, not really a competition, but perhaps a way of getting some better brains and talents on a curiosity.
Picture if you will, a paper octagon, about 1" in thickness, about 4" across. Got it? Good. Now, picture a paper hexagon, about 3" in across, and around .5" thick? See it?
Now, imagine a something. Some widget, a contraption that behaves like a lazy susan, like a record player turntable (some of you may not be old enough to know what that is) like a swivel chair, a merry go round, or whatever you can think of that rotates.
Picture it glued to the hexagon's center, and then glued to the octagon's center. This Widget is 39mm in diameter, and no more than 3 or 4mm thick. Can you visualize this?
Wait, this is the Information Age! You don't have to visualize it.
Here:
http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n59/lancer525/th_rotate.jpg (http://s109.photobucket.com/albums/n59/lancer525/?action=view¤t=rotate.jpg)
Now that everyone sees what I'm talking about, is there some mechanism like this that can be made out of paper? How about let's get the best and brightest of the designers in the card modeling world to come up with something like it! All it has to do is have two fixed sides, a simple means of rotation in between, (where you could pick up either the hexagon or octagon and they're attached to each other by the rotating thingy in the middle) that fits inside the red shape.
Let's see what you guys can come up with!
Picture if you will, a paper octagon, about 1" in thickness, about 4" across. Got it? Good. Now, picture a paper hexagon, about 3" in across, and around .5" thick? See it?
Now, imagine a something. Some widget, a contraption that behaves like a lazy susan, like a record player turntable (some of you may not be old enough to know what that is) like a swivel chair, a merry go round, or whatever you can think of that rotates.
Picture it glued to the hexagon's center, and then glued to the octagon's center. This Widget is 39mm in diameter, and no more than 3 or 4mm thick. Can you visualize this?
Wait, this is the Information Age! You don't have to visualize it.
Here:
http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n59/lancer525/th_rotate.jpg (http://s109.photobucket.com/albums/n59/lancer525/?action=view¤t=rotate.jpg)
Now that everyone sees what I'm talking about, is there some mechanism like this that can be made out of paper? How about let's get the best and brightest of the designers in the card modeling world to come up with something like it! All it has to do is have two fixed sides, a simple means of rotation in between, (where you could pick up either the hexagon or octagon and they're attached to each other by the rotating thingy in the middle) that fits inside the red shape.
Let's see what you guys can come up with!