{"id":4349,"date":"2010-08-10T22:34:57","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T03:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=4349"},"modified":"2010-08-10T22:37:13","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T03:37:13","slug":"rounding-the-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=4349","title":{"rendered":"Rounding the corner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since those <a href=http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=4168 target=1>earlier experiments with 3D printing<\/a>, my collaborators and I here at the Banff Centre have been working to make my little animated guy walk in the real world.  As a test, we&#8217;ve printed him out in each of the twelve positions of a complete walk cycle:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/cycle1.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the final result, it&#8217;s just a proof of concept to see whether things are going to work out.  In this run, we printed each pose as a separate object.  This allowed us to quickly get a sense of what we were going to end up with.<\/p>\n<p>Because he generally has one foot raised in the air, each piece won&#8217;t stand up on its own.  So to get a sense of what the finished zoetrope might look like, I propped up each raised foot with crumpled double-sticky transparent tape, as you can see in this close-up:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/cycle21.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>In the production version the entire zoetrope will be printed in one connected piece, so each pose of the guy will be in exactly the right position.   The final run is printing now &#8212; I can hear the machine working away as I type this.<\/p>\n<p>We are all very excited &#8212; it looks like we&#8217;re finally rounding the corner.  With any luck, I can show you an animation by Thursday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since those earlier experiments with 3D printing, my collaborators and I here at the Banff Centre have been working to make my little animated guy walk in the real world. As a test, we&#8217;ve printed him out in each of the twelve positions of a complete walk cycle: This isn&#8217;t the final result, it&#8217;s just &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=4349\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rounding the corner&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4349"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4359,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349\/revisions\/4359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}