By: sculpin
This is marvelous. I'd love to go junk shopping with that guy. Stuff! And things!
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one can image that 50 years ago Margolin would have done... aircraft or perhaps he would have been a an groundsweeper in the the east bay regional parks district, written about native california,...
View ArticleBy: GuyZero
It may have been for route plotting; there were a number of stations that had maps and these elaborate mechanical digitization mechanisms for getting map points into some sort of mechanical computing...
View ArticleBy: echo target
I believe they also made analog computers for firing shells air-to-air, which is pretty impressive. That looks way too big to be on a plane, though, and way too complicated to use in combat. Maybe it's...
View ArticleBy: GuyZero
It puzzles museum visitors. There was no signage or description on it at all. It was WWII-era so it may have been for aircraft design or calculating bomb trajectories or anything.
View ArticleBy: echo target
Yeah, for abstract analysis and measurements it's hard to beat the non-analog means. The two complement each other, though. A hanging chain is a catenary, but as you add weight along the length of it...
View ArticleBy: StickyCarpet
It amazes me how many cool people like this there are out there. And if you find one, they usually have a few others in their circle. ...uses everything from wood to cardboard... That leaves what?...
View ArticleBy: GuyZero
a photo I took of an analog computer. From Downsview Air Museum in Toronto. I have no clue what it was used for.
View ArticleBy: DU
If you calculate all your curves and positions by analog means, then there's no need for anything like a coordinate. There is if I want to analyze the curve. For instance, what if I want to figure out...
View ArticleBy: echo target
Equations and coordinates are just artifacts of non-analog computing, though. If you calculate all your curves and positions by analog means, then there's no need for anything like a coordinate. They...
View ArticleBy: DU
Considering you can do it with some nails and a rubber band in a few seconds it makes the software solution downright inelegant. You can? Given the nails and the rubber band, tell me the equation or...
View ArticleBy: Tacodog
I expected to snark at the snobby artist but wow, that was cool. Plus, as someone said above, he seems like a down-to-earth guy. I'll be thinking about this art all day. Thanks for the link.
View ArticleBy: bigmusic
These sculptures are wonderful. Given the means and the time, it's easy to see how one could get enraptured making these.
View ArticleBy: krilli
Can anyone help me with this: Make a better rubber band, and nature will invent a better [$PUNCHLINE]. ?
View ArticleBy: krilli
makes the software solution downright inelegantIMO, it makes that particular software solution inelegant. Most software solutions indeed. We'll invent something equally good, we just have to invent...
View ArticleBy: GuyZero
It's interesting to think about how difficult it is to represent water with complex 3D modeling software and yet this guy does a such good job with only cardboard and string. So waaay back in...
View ArticleBy: scottatdrake
So great. It's interesting to think about how difficult it is to represent water with complex 3D modeling software and yet this guy does a such good job with only cardboard and string.
View ArticleBy: Skygazer
Awe-inspiring understanding of patterns in nature. Spectacular and beautiful, really.
View ArticleBy: barrett caulk
this is great. thanks, rageagainsttherobots. this should be a nice salve for the rather heated art exchanges frothing around mefi lately. no gratuitous provocation, no pomo posturing. just simple...
View ArticleBy: DU
Yeah, those were really cool. Kinda makes you rethink the use of the word "mechanical" to mean "stiff and unnatural".
View ArticleBy: rageagainsttherobots
Amazing. This makes me appreciate the subtleties in nature a little bit more.
View ArticleKinetic Waves
Reuben Margolin uses everything from wood to cardboard to make incredible kinetic sculptures.
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