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If you intersect four corrugated sheets (two pairs of spaced parallel sheets, each sheet intersecting one other sheet), the result is a square helix (see illustrations). The square helix is a sensual shape and easy to build and thus would make a good sculpture. It also has the nice feature that it is
'space filling' (i.e. multiple copies of the shape can be stacked together without gaps).
A trendy lamp shade could be made in a square helix shape (made with metal edges and fabric sides).
illustration
http://usera.imagec...ix/curvy%20lamp.jpg
[xaviergisz, Sep 08 2009]
illustration (different angle)
http://usera.imagec.../curvy%20_lamp2.jpg
[xaviergisz, Sep 08 2009]
Similar lamp
http://www.allprodu...rlamp/product1.html
[bigsleep, Sep 08 2009]
Not exactly a square, but...
http://www.johnpacker.com/spiral.htm
[21 Quest, Sep 08 2009]
Patented
http://www.freepate...ne.com/6464588.html
[21 Quest, Sep 08 2009]
[link]
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If you use it to house your pet mouse, you could call it a squeelix. As a fundamental form, it's got to be somewhat baked, but have this croissant to feed your mouse. + |
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Isn't this the shape many pommes frites come in? |
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great find, bigsleep. It's hard to tell from the picture whether it is wavy on all four sides or just two sides. |
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loonquawl, I've seen corrugated fries before, but not to the same extent/effect as mine. I think fries is a good application of this shape since it could be easily achieved with known technology (i.e. corrugated blade) and, as with normal fries, there would be little waste (since the shape is space filling). |
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Google would've been your friend... had you bothered to use it. |
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both those links are pretty weak (particularly the second one), 21 Quest. |
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<rant mode on>
21 Quest, I think you could make an effort to be a bit more polite. I like feedback, I like relevant links, I like hearing a different perspective on ideas. I don't like king-of-the-castle arrogance, I don't like a shoot-first-ask-questions- later attitude and I don't like trolling. Whatever your message, there is usually a way to phrase it constructively/instructively rather than destructively/negatively. Of course everyone's got their own style, but sometimes you've just got to dial it down a notch. We're all here to share ideas and have a bit of fun. Being a tool takes some of that sharing and fun away, and in my opinion is just not cool.
<rant mode off> |
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I guess my question is this: what aspect of your idea is
supposedly new? Sorry, but a shape does not constitute an
invention, in my humble opinion. There are thousands of
variations on the helical form, in art and industry. A good
invention may be considered a work of art, but it doesn't work
the other way around. The Sistine Chapel, Mona Lisa, Statue of
David, and all the works of Jackson Pollak (sp?) may be very
pretty to look at, and admired by many, but are not considered
inventions or ideas. They are expressions of the soul, not the
mind. Your idea falls into the same category. Archimedes' Screw,
on the other hand, is a work of art with a functional purpose. He
took a screw, which really is a beautiful design, and put it in a
hollow tube to perform a useful function. It's beautiful to look at,
if the tube is transparent, beautiful to watch in operation, and
useful in application. Your... shape... is very pretty to look at,
sure, but it doesn't do anything. Where's the beef? Artists are
not inventors. Sorry, mate. |
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The idea is a lamp shade in this shape. I think it fits within the HB definition of an invention. Other uses for the shape could include: french fries (as mentioned above), pasta (piazza spirali or
piazza elica), a toy, a construction block etc. |
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I'm not your mate, pal
(I'll spoil the joke by saying there's no ill will in this comment, it's just a reference to South Park) |
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In the light of the above altercation: |
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The fact that the halfbakery has a section entitled 'culture' suggests that ideas do not need to be inventions, functional mechanisms or even tangeable. |
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At the top left of the page is the heading 'idea' not 'invention'. |
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I have seen ideas put down on the grounds that they fall into the category 'what if we all did this'. Surely this is the very definition of culture. |
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And you're not my mate or pal, buddy. |
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Blimey. Someone posts something pretty and this is what
happens. |
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Anyway, bollocks. It's pretty, and clever, and made me think
about all kinds of things to do with helices, and I like it very
much, so [+]. |
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