-Assignment Intro-
This assignment mainly require students to use straw as column to assemble polyhedrons without glue (why does my professor hate glue so much? It doesn’t commit any felony) to practice our methods in using mechanical connectors.
-Process-
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- Cut the straw and make the bendable side inserted into it
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- Cut more bendable sides to make sure each straw have two sides bendable
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- Shining under the flashlight
Basically the pictures above shows the process of me doing this straw based polyhedron. To clarify, I squeeze one side of a straw so that it can fit in with another scissored bendable side. Once one side is inserted, I pushed the straw so it is embedded deeply and create a firm form.
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- Hold the straws and tie it firmly by yarns (create a xyz axis first)
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- Rough draft. Seems little bit messy
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- It needs a haircut
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- Boom
As shown above, I started creating with holding and tying. I found an effective way to hold 3 straws first to form a x-y-z axis which can support the whole structure. That is the fastest way to make the whole structure firm.
-Styling Pictures-
After finishing these two polyhedrons, I posed them in different background and different composition:
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- “inside my heart”
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- Overlapped column with flashlight
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- Bird????
-Reflection-
Ultimately, this assignment enrich my methods to complete mechanical connection and I learn, from experimenting, how to tie a knit firm and make the straws combined and concrete at certain angle. It echoed my high school time when we could get free straws in canting and after drinking the milk tea I always played with them. After all, it was quite fun and not burdening at all.
