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I was watching the cool moire patterns formed by the wire cage of my electric fan as it slowly pivoted back and forth. And I wondered if a cleverly designed wire cage could be made such that the moire patterns formed an animation of, for example, a person’s head slowly rotating. Any ideas?
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Busy day at the office today? |
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Subtle kinks and twists of the bars should allow somthing like that. The mathematics to work out which bends go where will probably require variable resolutions real numbers. I do not know the solution, but I admire the problem. |
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Use a matrix of memory wire -- then computer control it. |
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That's easy, just take a running lawnmower and drop it on my ex-wife's head. |
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