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About
40 people were involved in the group assembly of the Salamanders
sculpture, which took place on Monday, November 3, 2003
at 7-10pm
near the MIT Museum. |
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Two videos of the wood assembly are available online.
Each are available in three formats.
The
shorter video is 40 seconds:
- MPEG-1
(7.6 MB): playable on most machines, slightly
lower quality
- QuickTime
(7.7 MB): recommended for
machines with QuickTime
Player
- Windows
Media (5.8 MB): recommended for Windows machines
with Windows Media Player
The
longer video is 3 minutes:
- MPEG-1
(28 MB): playable on most machines, slightly
lower quality
- QuickTime
(26 MB): recommended for
machines with QuickTime
Player
- Windows
Media (22 MB): recommended for Windows machines
with Windows Media Player
Many
thanks to Tom
Buehler of the Computer
Graphics Group for producing the videos. |
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We
started out by making paper models
of the sculpture to get a sense of what the 3D form is like
and how it might be assembled. Every participant got their
own envelope of 30 salamanders laser-cut from card stock,
and people then formed into groups to try assembling and
taping. Even paper assembly was quite a challenge! If you
want to try making a paper model yourself, print out five
copies of this PDF
file. |
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After about an hour and a half, we proceeded to making
the wood sculpture. This process was split into three
phases:
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assembling 10 salamanders on the top,
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assembling 10 salamanders on the bottom, and
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interweaving the final 10 salamanders simultaneously
into the top and bottom.
The
last step was the hardest. Only the top 10 salamanders and
bottom 10 salamanders were screwed together. The rest floated
freely in the air, each held by a different person. After
some careful maneuvering by everyone involved, all the feet
and arms of the salamanders correctly interwove and the
sculpture was complete. The total time for the wood assembly
was about one hour and 50 minutes. See
also George
Hart's page about the Salamanders assembly.
*We
will be adding more images shortly. In the meantime, please
visit http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/GeorgeHart/photos/
These
images due to file size may take a while to load.
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