More Ephemerisle art ideas

[mattbell]

1.  Make a giant koosh out of foam water noodles.  (like these)   Quick calculations show that for 100 bucks you could build a 9 foot diameter koosh that could support one or two adults.  Plus, it would be hilarious to watch people try to get stable on it.  :-)

2.  Floating game table.  So there are lots of interesting interfaces you could get out of having one or more people tilt a big floating platform by running around on it.  It would be a chance for people to hone their sea legs in a game of balance.  The platform could be reconfigurable, with different parts added or removed.  I'm thinking a 4x8 platform is the minimum size needed, though an 8x8 would be ideal.  Here are some options:

Marble Madness / Miniature Golf / Labyrinth

The platform has some walls and some holes, along with ramps, hills, and whatnot.  You have to tilt the platform to get a croquet ball from the starting point to the finishing point in as little time as possible.  If you touch the ball you have to start over.

Tilt Pool

This 2-player game would have several holes in a flat platform.  The holes would be marked in two different colors to signify which player they belong to.  One ball would be in play at any given time, and the players would be in competition to tilt the platform to get the ball to go into their holes instead of their opponents' holes. 

3.  Floating 3D tessellation of a rhombic dodecahedron.  It's the only semiregular polyhedron that tessellates 3-space in an interesting way.  Using lots of PVC pipe surrounded by foam noodles, we could construct this fascinating-looking floating lattice.   Thicker (and undoubtedly more expensive) versions would be climbable.

Comments

[factitiouslj.livejournal.com]

>It's the only regular polyhedron that has an interesting 3D shape.

Dude, you're getting jaded.

[nasu-dengaku.livejournal.com]

Hey, if you still get off on regular cubic lattices, that's cool with me.

Er... I meant to say, it's the only semiregular polyhedron that has an interesting *space-filling* pattern when tessellated.

[factitiouslj.livejournal.com]

OK, that makes a lot more sense. I was worried you were one of those people who's too hip to enjoy octahedra anymore.

[tenacious-snail.livejournal.com]

sneezesloudly and I would like to go to Ephemerisle, but thus far, it seems one must be invited to attend. I'd hoped to ask you about this last weeken, but was felled by illness.

[nasu-dengaku.livejournal.com]

General admission tickets begin May 1.

[jhogan.livejournal.com]

May 9th, sadly... soon though!

[amysun.livejournal.com]

Marble Madness!!! Another awesome idea.

[patrissimo.livejournal.com]

Floating 3D tessellation of a rhombic dodecahedron. It's the only semiregular polyhedron that tessellates 3-space in an interesting way.

You are so awesome, I love how this falls so trippingly from your tongue.

[klrmn.livejournal.com]

i'd recommend putting 3 inch plastic balls into some kind of beanbag like container, rather than using noodles, which tend to disintegrate when exposed to much sun.

[nasu-dengaku.livejournal.com]

How quickly do the noodles disintegrate? They'd only be out there for 4 days.