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Squids ,

I do 3d modelling as a hobby so I’ve got a nice big of art stacked up over the years but weirdly enough the thing I’m really proud of is this real life replica of the Splatana stamper from splatoon. It’s a really complex thing that I spent ages on trying to get every little detail as perfectly accurate as I could using only 720p screenshots of low res models and I even made a version that can actually function as an actual stamper. It’s an actual thing that I can hold in my hands, and so can you! Not to mention some of the CAD things I had to do were surprisingly complicated. Like you would not believe how hard it is to emboss a curved surface in fusion 360.

I honestly don’t know what my best work is artistically, but I’m fond of all the little Interior design stuff I do, even if it gets a fraction of the notes anything fandom related gets. The pride rooms are nice but there’s also an entire house I did if you scroll down the tag a little

intensely_human ,

When I was in college I was taking trigonometry and structural engineering. In structures we were studying trusses. In trig we were solving for angles and distances using systems of equations.

At the same time I was living in a little studio apartment with old fixtures, a creaky hardwood floor, a view over the street below. It had those multi-pane windows with white paint just slathered onto the muntins, and streaking the edges of the panes.

The kitchen lacked counter space, but also lacked space overall. So I built myself a folding countertop.

It’s a piece of plywood about two feet by three feet. Grain showing, stained with polyurethane. When it’s unfolded and ready to be used, there’s a straight wood bar with a hinged connection near the end of the plywood piece, attached underneath, and the other end is a hinged connection at the wall.

That would be a static truss if the counter were always extended open. Those hinges would never rotate because it’s a triangle.

The hinges made it a truss by offering no resistance to turning. The fact that it was a truss allowed me to calculate how much load it could hold. At the end of the countertop, I should have been able to apply 700 lbs of force straight down before it broke. (But the actual number was probably less; that’s what my gut says. I sat on it but I never wanted to bounce on it)

The trick was getting it to fold. See, to make it fold I had to put a hinge in the middle of that diagonal member (this structure was double, one on each side of the plywood, but I’ll just describe one).

I tried to set it up with angle hinges, like you’d see on a door. Two flat pieces connected by a line about which they rotate. But that didn’t work. I can’t recall why.

Instead I had to use an axle based hinge. The member coming from the plywood down was made of three pieces glued together, with the middle piece shorter to present a forked pair of layers. Those were circular at the end. In the center of that circle was a hold passing horizontally through the room. I built the hinge out of various washers and a big bolt. I had to keep the connection from being tight, like a bolted connection normally would be, because I didn’t want the upper wood squeezing the lower wood.

I can’t remember the exact sequence of the metal parts of that hinge, but it allowed the whole thing to loosely rotate without any part of it being in danger of eventually coming lose and unscrewing. The bolt extended into space after leaving the joint toward the inside, and that’s where the stabilizing bar comes down to hold that joint in place.

The stabilizing bar is quite thin. It doesn’t need to carry much load at all; it just keeps the long diagonal truss member from starting to buckle at the hinge I just described.

The exact position of that hinge along the main member was precisely constrained by this:

When extended, the sum of the two sub-members had to be the distance from the bottom of the wall attachment point, to the point where it met the plywood.

When folded, the difference between the two member lengths had to equal the distance between the lower wall attachment point and the connection with of the now-hanging plywood.

It was fun to make, and even if it was tiny I got to solve a system of equations to figure out the dimensions, and it expanded my ability to cook in that little kitchen, making my life better.

I baked cookies, hosted dinners, perfectly inoculated like 100 shroom cakes with one infection.

I think they made me remove it when I moved out. Went against code somehow.

AceFuzzLord ,

The one I am probably most proud of is when in an art course at the local community college we had a bunch of white foam shapes on a short table that took up the middle of the room.

We had to cover the paper we used in black charcoal and had to use an eraser to fill in the shapes, shading, contour, etcetera. It was my favorite project we did in that course since I had never done something like it before.

Driftking ,

I am a interaction artist at my company. Still a new field of PR that we are experimenting with. I work for one of the major hydrocarbon companies

MJBrune ,

I’ve made video games for the last decade but the one I’m most proud of is called the away team. A 120k word interactive novel that explores what humanity is and if there is anything worth saving in it. If so, what. All told through the eyes of an AI tasked with saving the last of humanity by finding a new planet in the galaxy for them to colonize.

It has a demo and native Linux builds. www.awayteam.space

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