i’ve always been fascinated by fresnel lenses, so when i was living in hyuga city it seemed a good idea to share the fascination with the children of diodani elementary school by constructing this monolith. it consists of about one hundred 8.5″X11″ ‘bug eye’ screens, each of which has a grid of rectangular lenses etched ...
a minor student project. the assignment was to use an everyday item or two to make something new, so i cut up an old icetray and a bit of computer cable to make this.
from a student project (‘submarine museum’) at PSU. model constructed of layered cardboard with precision cutouts, necessitating the invention of an elaborate coordinate system to plot each layer’s corresponding shape. below are two documents used to calculate cut positions.