{"id":693,"date":"2021-09-13T13:55:17","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T17:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-a21\/?p=693"},"modified":"2021-09-13T13:59:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T17:59:58","slug":"matt-johannesen-maquette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-a21\/mdjohannesen\/matt-johannesen-maquette\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Johannesen – Maquette"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For the maquette of my light box concept, I wanted to have a physical mockup demonstrating at least a couple moving parts, and reorderable layers held together by magnets. I didn’t have time to get enough wood for a laser-cut version, so I cut up index cards by hand to make some layers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below are the four layers I made for the maquette. The two on the right are static, and the two on the left have moving parts (the box shape is attached to a rotating circle, and the arm slides in and out of the frame):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Attaching Layers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I had a large roll of magnetic tape left over from another project, so I used small squares of that to attach the layers together.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Rotating Mechanism<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Of the two mechanisms, I had to put much more thought into the rotating layer. This is made of 3 sheets of paper – one for the moving part, and two to keep it in place. The lever poking out on the side attaches to the thin circle in the middle layer, and tabs from one of the outer layers fold inward to hold the circle in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since part of the circle juts inward (to hold the shape that’s actually visible through the window), it can’t move all the way around – it’s just enough range to be interesting, but I’d like to do better than that for the real version. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since wood is thicker and stiffer than paper, I shouldn’t need to use tabs like this to keep a shape from rotating out of place.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n