Friday, August 30, 2019
Semaphorendipity
With latest courseware essentially done, I've returned to graphics playtime. Decided to make more old telegraph systems and similar gadgets, focusing on the pre-electric era.
This picture in one of Shaffner's books caught my eye:
A mechanical semaphore in Russia around 1858.
I built the tower and wrote Python code to run the pointers from a text, then started on Brett's printing telegraph. At some point I'll need to make the operator's houses, but at the moment the mechanical complexities of Brett are more interesting.
This morning I was thinking for some unknown reason about street grids, and wanted to verify my memory of Manhattan's original streets and avenues, as platted in 1854. Remembered that I had discussed this in a post on market squares.
Here's the picture:
Wait! The house on the left is completely unfamiliar. Obviously I must have made it, but I don't remember making it. The separate stones must have taken quite a bit of work.
After a search of old ZIPs, I located it. I'd made it in 2009, then used it exactly once in the market square picture. It was never placed in my regular Poser 'libraries'.
I don't need to make the operator's houses after all!
A mechanical semaphore in Russia around 1858.
I built the tower and wrote Python code to run the pointers from a text, then started on Brett's printing telegraph. At some point I'll need to make the operator's houses, but at the moment the mechanical complexities of Brett are more interesting.
This morning I was thinking for some unknown reason about street grids, and wanted to verify my memory of Manhattan's original streets and avenues, as platted in 1854. Remembered that I had discussed this in a post on market squares.
Here's the picture:
Wait! The house on the left is completely unfamiliar. Obviously I must have made it, but I don't remember making it. The separate stones must have taken quite a bit of work.
After a search of old ZIPs, I located it. I'd made it in 2009, then used it exactly once in the market square picture. It was never placed in my regular Poser 'libraries'.
I don't need to make the operator's houses after all!Labels: defensible times
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