Friday, September 07, 2018
Lumberality
I was trying to untangle the electromechanical logic of this mechanism, with some help from the descriptive text.
Suddenly I noticed a MUCH more interesting aspect of the diagram. The wooden beams are shown as wood, not just gray or crosshatch; even more, the draftsman went to the trouble of giving each beam an individual personality. Each is from a different section of a tree, with different grain patterns and different imperfections. A lumber expert could tell which type of sawing had produced each beam, just as a butcher could distinguish cuts of meat by their grain and fat patterns.
That's ART.
Suddenly I noticed a MUCH more interesting aspect of the diagram. The wooden beams are shown as wood, not just gray or crosshatch; even more, the draftsman went to the trouble of giving each beam an individual personality. Each is from a different section of a tree, with different grain patterns and different imperfections. A lumber expert could tell which type of sawing had produced each beam, just as a butcher could distinguish cuts of meat by their grain and fat patterns.
That's ART.Labels: Morsenet of Things, skill-estate
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