Linkage motion

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Comment by Nitya Balan on October 23, 2013 at 4:20pm

and its awesome!

Comment by Nick Tyrer on April 11, 2013 at 11:32am

Reminds me of RigidOrigami, (and Hoberman), is this project taking you full circle to your old work?

Comment by taz on April 11, 2013 at 11:27am

Don't let Chuck Hoberman see this...

Comment by djordje on April 11, 2013 at 10:27am

Love the way you elaborate your replies Daneil!
This community truly has a golden contributor.

Comment by Daniel Piker on April 11, 2013 at 10:19am

To clarify a bit, the connections are the sort of binary hinges shown in this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfViCWntbDQ

So there are actually 2 intersecting axes of rotation, as described here:

http://somim.org.mx/conference_proceedings/pdfs/A11/A11_281.pdf

and I believe the same construction will work on any conical mesh which is 2-colourable (ie its faces can be assigned a checkerboard pattern of clockwise/anti-clockwise rotation)

Comment by Nick Tyrer on April 11, 2013 at 9:47am

Daniel - Awesome!

Comment by Daniel Piker on April 11, 2013 at 9:30am

Nick - exactly!

Comment by Nick Tyrer on April 11, 2013 at 9:14am

Daniel, does 'single degree of freedom' mean that if each of these joints was a hinge. this surface would physically work?

Comment by djordje on April 11, 2013 at 8:13am

Wonderful.

Comment by Daniel Piker on April 11, 2013 at 7:59am

Starting from a circular mesh and corresponding conical mesh (found with Kangaroo), it is possible to create a single degree of freedom moving structure...