foldable map of Itokawa, a cook's tour of the sausage factory |
foldable map of Itokawa, a cook's tour of the sausage factory |
Jan 23 2010, 03:39 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 140 Joined: 20-November 07 Member No.: 3967 |
Not that I mean to compare Itokawa to a sausage, just to show you behind the scenes of making the map, along with the map itself, here, rather than continue to clog up the Hayabusa Return to Earth thread.
Here is the map itself, so far along as the pasting in of the mosaic has gone. And here is are two shots of the folded up map, compared with the computer-made model. Note the arrow to one of the "ears." The first try of the map failed to capture the ear, so I replotted the boundary, as seen in the Tracing image. All photos credit: Sara Adkins Studio |
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Feb 11 2010, 07:15 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
I am always amazed & deeply impressed by people who have the talent and dedication to accomplish things like this.
You go, Chuck. -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Feb 11 2010, 03:49 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 140 Joined: 20-November 07 Member No.: 3967 |
I am always amazed & deeply impressed by people who have the talent and dedication to accomplish things like this. You go, Chuck. Thank you, nprev. nice to be appreciated. My little project is self-supported -- it's grown (and mightily so, I might add) out of an apprentice problem I'd been given a long time ago, when I chose architect as my job. We all have our motivations; this, to quote out of context my mentor who gave me this problem, "is my best bid for immortality." (added emphasis.) In the meantime, we all need to live and eat. Let me know if you happen across a well-heeled space enthusiast seeking to inspire the public with a low-risk hi-reward cartographic innovation -- constant-scale natural boundary mapping, an orphan idea if there ever was. While those blockbuster Hi-risk high-reward projects hog the limelight, I'm puttering along in my basement lab, using renaissance-era tools and techniques to fiddle with space-age discoveries. Well, okay, and eighteenth century innovation, the spring-loaded scissors. I justify this project because architects are required by law to continue education -- and what better educates than a better look at the planet -- but that excuse gets slimmer as CSNB enters its third decade of focused activity. Doesn't help, that each new subject takes me farther from Earth. Hmmm . . . Have you noticed that the new Enceladus global geology map looks to be promising raw material for a CSNB map . . . And, not to digress overly, but I speculate that a spin-off application of CSNB to molecular mapping might be useful for addressing real world problems here on Earth. Not to mention that molecules are unchanged throughout the universe and time, so a way to map them into peculiar but eternal shapes, comparable (overlayable) as we architects compare floor plans ought to useful for basic science, shouldn't it? And then, you have the fun of cutting them out and folding them up . . . I'm just sayin'. It's upstream on this post, but I'll mention it here again, thanks to JAXA for contributing the model used to make this CSNB Itokawa map. Here is the folding sequence so far, maybe the better part of an hour counting extra time to keep track of seam slices: photo credit Sara Adkins Studio / C. Clark I'll post some group photos of the model, the test fold-up, the current current fold-up; then back to taping . . . |
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