This blew my mind, wow! The level of detail is surreal, especially the cabin, wings, and wheels. Feels like looking at a manilla 3d rendering...
1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders
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#52vector art layout step is surprisingly manual! I wonder if there's a market for a CAD tool that focuses on creating 2D cutouts for 3D models
Not exactly what I think you're thinking of, but there's enough of a market for this to exist:
https://www.vectric.com/products/cut2d-pro
More generally, modeling software tends to also handle sheet metal fabrication (closest to what you're thinking of) and surface modeling just fine.
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Was also very popular in communist era Poland, including people extending the paper models to be capable of self-propelled taxiing and certain set of "moveable" features implemented as extras.
Same thing in Bulgaria. One good side of "communism" was free modeling clubs for kids like me, so we've got rocket modelling (made 2, even 3 phase rockets while 3rd-4th grade), plane modelling (balsa wood, rice paper, etc.) - all for free - you pay for neither materials, nor courses, later it was computers (that's how I got into them). Before that also slot cars racing, ship modelling, there was even knot-making club…
Czech Republic, reporting in! I'm too young to remember much of communism but I remember the balsa and rice paper gliders I built with my grandpa very fondly. There's something so fantastic about the fragile beauty of those planes with their skeletons visible beneath that translucent skin.
There's a magazine in the Czech Rep. called ABC which always had plans for some sort of papercraft model in the back. I used to love them as a kid.
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#54Someone get this guy a job at Boeing. He seems like a better engineer than some of the people making real planes.
Boeing invited him to tour their production line https://youtu.be/c47kn_Y4y8A?t=343
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#55Just going to be very, very disappointed if it doesn't actually fly...
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
On today's episode of "Stop Liking Things That I Don't Like"
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Since we are sharing: I've spent the last couple of years, on and off, building a physics engine from scratch. Pretty hard considering I'm not a mechanical engineer. Lots of fun though.
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#57Wonder if the SpaceX team should have a chat with the designer about trying a Falcon 9 or Heavy next? :)
Doing a model rocket would be tougher there's a lot of bits they just couldn't show him due to ITAR restrictions. Also beyond the engines rockets are a LOT of empty space, there is some interesting structure in the skin but most of the volume is just empty. Destin from Smarter Every Day did a tour of the ULA factory where you can see the skin that provides a lot of the structure for their rockets.
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#58I wonder, if you fit some kind of propulsion and controls - will the model become flyable enough?
There are plenty of flying models of various airliners. Some of them are quite detailed, though none with the incredible interior detailing this 777 has.
You could put a lot of detail into a model that was intended to fly, but you wouldn't want start off with something intended to be a static model.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been spending the last couple of years doubling down on learning Swift, and the Swift ecosystem. It's been 14 hours a day, seven days a week. And I haven't been paid a dime. All the while, I have been told that I'm "wasting my time," "you should be learning React Native and Javascript," and that "Apple is a dead company." etc. ad nauseam Since I've been hearing that same refrain (substitute "Windows" for "React…
Since we are sharing: I've spent the last couple of years, on and off, building a physics engine from scratch. Pretty hard considering I'm not a mechanical engineer. Lots of fun though.
Excellent! You should do a "Show HN," when you are done.
What language are you using? What is your destination platform?
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