The GALAXY Project (part 15)
/Turff, Chief Engineer of the GALAXY Project continues to prototype and work.
Very exciting. I contributed by remembering that I actually had a way to measure curved lines.
I literally woke up remembering that I had a bendable ruler and I knew (mostly) where it was. I measured the length of our spiral and after correcting my math — always write your formulæ down, boys and girls; it clarifies the brain thoughts — we found that my measurements were nearly the same as Turff’s estimates.
In consultation with our supplier Benny out on the west coast, Turff has elected to divide the spine of the piece into six sections, each with about 28 rings on it.
And this morning I awoke to find that he had done this:
He had sent me a text message explaining the 28 rings/segment idea and asking me to use my bendy ruler to measure each segment. I was getting ready to count those suckers when I saw the email with this image. Please notice, if you will, the tiny colored dots in the rings.
Don’t you love it when your teammates get as obsessed as you over a project? It’s so rare that I find myself a little bit lost: You mean I don’t have to do it all by myself? This must be what the kids at the Governor’s Honors Program felt like every summer when we taught them how to work in groups.
It’s twelve days till the Alchemy Art Fundraiser. Time for me to start working on the display. (Note: If you can’t quite make it to Smyrna, GA, to see all this madness in person, there will be an online version. That’s right, yet another way to give me money.)
UPDATE: It gets worse (better?). There are actually seven segments now, and something I didn’t compute: the number of colored dots in each ring indicates small/medium/large. Oy.
