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Refining Carbon Garden art and mechanics
May 21st, 2009While the blooms of Carbon Garden will be made from carbon fiber, we’ve decided to build the stems out of steel. It’s so nice to get back to a material we understand! Here’s a sketch by Eric Nguyen of a strategy for adding detail to the stems and a way to make wireframe leaves.
The red lines are the bent-steel tubing. The black ones are a thin material (copper piping? steel wire?) bent around and welded/brazed together to make more intricate, organic shapes around the fixed-diameter stem. The thin material can also be bent into leaf-shapes and can continue up the undersides of the petals.
Meanwhile Andy Lee drew up CAD models for a system to attach the petals together into a bloom and the flame effect to the stem.
