{"id":660,"date":"2010-07-11T19:28:57","date_gmt":"2010-07-11T09:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/?p=660"},"modified":"2010-07-11T19:28:57","modified_gmt":"2010-07-11T09:28:57","slug":"yippee-2-hyperboloid-stool-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/2010\/07\/11\/yippee-2-hyperboloid-stool-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Yippee 2 – Hyperboloid Stool (Preview)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the second ‘thing’ I am making from the\u00a0Ponoko order I received earlier.<\/a> I’m calling this post a preview only simply because I am nowhere near finished! \u00a0A fusion of laser cutting fun, my most hated subject of math, and cool glowing monofilament is the Hyperboloid Stool [A very expensive replacement for a $5 IKEA stool].<\/p>\n

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Quad-Hyperboloid - Pink Monofilament <-- That's a mouthful<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I ordered the ‘stool’ in 4 materials, corrogated cardboard, 3mm Bamboo, 3mm Black Acrylic and 6mm Clear Acrylic. \u00a0The 6mm Clear acrylic is what you see here. \u00a0The top of the stool is supported by 4 ‘pillars’ with an additional 4 support beams for the 3mm materials. \u00a0The idea is to use monofilament wire to create multiple hyperboloid surfaces from top to bottom to create a ‘cool’ look. \u00a0Of course it helps that the monofilament I used is\u00a0fluorescent and would glow under UV light \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Can you count 4 hyperboloid surfaces?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The clear acrylic with pink monofilament example shown is a classic demonstration of the fact I’m slightly hopeless counting. \u00a0I had originally planned for 2 criss-crossed hyperboloid surfaces but due to a miscount I realized I screwed up on the first reverse weave. \u00a0Deciding to run with the mistake rather than going back to fix it I ended up with 4 hyperboloid surfaces, doesn’t look THAT bad… You can see the concentric ‘rings’ of each hyperboloid surface in the next photo.<\/p>\n

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Concentric circles look cool<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A better selection of how many surfaces and curvature would improve the aesthetics greatly. \u00a0Its also rather big, would suit someone with a large bottom I suppose. \u00a0Overall not a bad experiment result though.<\/p>\n

I’m looking forward to the Bamboo and Black Acrylic versions \ud83d\ude09 \u00a0Really looking forward to taking a photo under UV light too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the second ‘thing’ I am making from the\u00a0Ponoko order I received earlier. I’m calling this post a preview only simply because I am nowhere near finished! \u00a0A fusion of laser cutting fun, my most hated subject of math, and cool glowing monofilament is the Hyperboloid Stool [A very expensive replacement for a $5 … Continue reading “Yippee 2 – Hyperboloid Stool (Preview)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,42],"tags":[43,28,10,26,44,45,9,27],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-wtf","tag-alibre","tag-alibre-xpress","tag-fun","tag-laser-cutting","tag-math","tag-mechanical","tag-perverted-engineering","tag-ponoko"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":667,"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions\/667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}