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A setback with Unit set 2

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david-troetschelDavid Troetschel 10/16/2018 at 15:590 Comments

So Unit set 2 has some issues; this is why we iterate!

Due to scale, tolerances or some other issue units aren't matching up in our intended way. This is okay since we now have a benchmark to play off of but officially I'll declare Unit set 2 a failure.

This may be due to several specific decisions made transitioning from theory to applied theory, namely the abandonment of the bounding box operation which would result in slanted and non uniform termination points. Unit set 2 was instead constructed by placing a point at the origin, and with a set length line placed at various 15 degree increments in space and then extruding straight along the line the arm.

This approach seemed intuitively more dynamic since it would allow for rotation and surface continuity between units. This theory seems incorrect, although maybe not in its entirety. We may simply have printed too few "useful" components, namely those with self intersecting geometry.

Anyways, this is a setback and learning opportunity. Files will be compressed and re-uploaded in whole but should be used primarily in digital format for exploration and testing, not with a material investment. Its somewhat misleading when looking at the models digitally, they seem to work but will be misaligned by something like >5 degrees.

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