{"id":355,"date":"2017-02-01T19:31:31","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T00:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-c17\/?p=355"},"modified":"2017-02-01T19:31:31","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T00:31:31","slug":"maquette-life-progression-sundial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-c17\/maquette-life-progression-sundial\/","title":{"rendered":"Maquette: Life Progression Sundial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to settle on my Sundial idea. With a couple of people already doing cool projects with Tech and LEDs, I thought it would be fun to try my hand at something slightly more interesting to me, which is the use of Shadows.<\/p>\n<p>So, just as a sort of brief test of how the shadows would work with the shapes I wanted to make, I made some cutouts and used the flashlight from my phone to make shadows. In future tests, I&#8217;d need to use like a nice desk lamp, but I don&#8217;t have one, so I&#8217;m planning on grabbing one next time I&#8217;m out.<\/p>\n<p>The cutouts:<\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-356\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-c17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/16491587_10155667543669338_902903357_o-e1485994543974-450x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-c17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/16491587_10155667543669338_902903357_o-e1485994543974-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-c17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/16491587_10155667543669338_902903357_o-e1485994543974-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-c17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/16491587_10155667543669338_902903357_o-e1485994543974.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-357\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-c17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/16466018_10155667543419338_397840196_o-e1485994893126-450x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-c17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/16466018_10155667543419338_397840196_o-e1485994893126-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-c17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/16466018_10155667543419338_397840196_o-e1485994893126-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-c17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/16466018_10155667543419338_397840196_o-e1485994893126.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-358\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-c17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/16409511_10155667543384338_478861091_o-e1485994656699-450x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-c17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/16409511_10155667543384338_478861091_o-e1485994656699-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-c17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/16409511_10155667543384338_478861091_o-e1485994656699-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-c17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/16409511_10155667543384338_478861091_o-e1485994656699.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>So I tried to layer them all together in a triangle style like this:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-363\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-c17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/16409903_10155667543789338_2008349357_o-2-450x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-c17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/16409903_10155667543789338_2008349357_o-2-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-c17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/16409903_10155667543789338_2008349357_o-2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-c17\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/02\/16409903_10155667543789338_2008349357_o-2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Which didn&#8217;t really produce the effect that I wanted. So I&#8217;m gonna have to go back to the drawing board a bit. I&#8217;ll probably use more of a Y formation for the final version, but I need to find a nice way of combining the three silhouettes to make that work.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the final version will likely be 3D printed, so I need to look into how I can go about using WPI&#8217;s 3D printing services (I tried asking some friends, but they&#8217;ve never used it, ha.) Worse comes to worst I&#8217;ll hit up Shapeways with some 3D models I make. The only issue is it would be harder to play with the actual shape between trials.<\/p>\n<p>Shopping list\/Useful Components:<br \/>\n&#8211; An actual light source.<br \/>\n&#8211; Potentially an Arduino setup that will allow me to rotate that lightsource around the piece.<br \/>\n&#8211; An Exacto-knife (for more cardboard trials)<br \/>\n&#8211; A pedestal for the piece to go on.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll probably need more things, but that&#8217;s all I can think of at the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to settle on my Sundial idea. With a couple of people already doing cool projects with Tech and LEDs, I thought it would be fun to try my hand at something slightly more interesting to me, which is the use of Shadows. So, just as a sort of brief test of how the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-c17\/maquette-life-progression-sundial\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Maquette: Life Progression Sundial&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8lxqz-5J","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-c17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-c17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-c17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-c17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-c17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-c17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-c17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-c17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-c17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-c17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}