Sit Circle People

 

Hi

 At a presentation I made a few weeks ago, I used the "sit Circle Game" or "Lap Circle Game" as an example of a reciprocal frame and was happy to leave it like that for a few days. But then I got curious, and wanted to express myself, or do something about the sitting circle, so came up with a few 3d printed parts that "do" a lap circle even if the parts don't look a lot like people. You can print these and play with them to your heart's content. Happy Christmas! 

Here are the videos: inspiration , forwards falling and backwards falling .

 

Here is the link to the Thingiverse models https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7248534

To start with I made a "person" which happened to fall forwards, which wasn't the intention. However, I was quite amused by it and decided to leave it like that. It took a few goes at it but eventually settled on a backwards falling person which has lost all resemblence to an actual person - the forwards falling person at least has legs. The backwards falling person design just throws any resemblance to a person out the window but concentrates on being fairly stable, easy to print and doesn't get tangled with itself when it falls over.

 I might have been influenced in this by Robert Klippel ,  whose exhibition I saw at Tarrawarra and also by Sol De Witt - I saw the video in the link at The Bridges Maths and Arts Exhibition in July in Eindhoven. Also I thought about the Conferencebike by Eric Staller - an exercise in cooperation we could all do with!

Regards Steve Nurse

 

World leaders on conference bike courtesy https://ericstaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/ASCI-FeatureMember-Aug2016_EricStaller-8.pdf