{"id":4412,"date":"2010-08-16T23:36:14","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T04:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=4412"},"modified":"2010-08-16T23:47:52","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T04:47:52","slug":"borg-de-borg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=4412","title":{"rendered":"Invasion of the borg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several years ago I became fascinated by 3D mazes.  These are like the 2D mazes we&#8217;re all familiar with, except they form 3D paths within a cube, rather than 2D paths within a square.  To explore these fascinating shapes (which look a lot like the Borg mothership), I created an <a href=http:\/\/mrl.nyu.edu\/~perlin\/experiments\/borg\/ target=1>interactive Java applet<\/a>, which lets you create virtual objects that look like this:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/borg-applet.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As long as I am at the Banff Centre, it seemed like a good idea to print one of these things out in the real world.  So I modified the Java applet to create a file that the 3D printer can read.  It seemed like a good idea to print out the first one very small &#8212; you never know how safe you are with the Borg.  And this is the first thing that resulted:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/borg1.jpg\"><\/center><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There is something wonderful about having one of these out in the physical world, where I can touch it and hold it in my hand.  It&#8217;s a much more visceral experience than merely looking at an image on a computer screen.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, I&#8217;ve included the trusty Banff Centre pen, to give you a sense of scale.  I must say I am rather pleased.  Now I&#8217;m trying to decide which of my Java creations to next bring out into our physical world.<\/p>\n<p>I am open to suggestions. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several years ago I became fascinated by 3D mazes. These are like the 2D mazes we&#8217;re all familiar with, except they form 3D paths within a cube, rather than 2D paths within a square. To explore these fascinating shapes (which look a lot like the Borg mothership), I created an interactive Java applet, which lets &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=4412\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Invasion of the borg&#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":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4412"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4423,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4412\/revisions\/4423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}