[HN Gopher] Scale Model of Boeing 777-300ER, Made from Manila Fo...
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Scale Model of Boeing 777-300ER, Made from Manila Folders
Author : uticus
Score : 357 points
Date : 2024-12-27 16:53 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.lucaiaconistewart.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.lucaiaconistewart.com)
| 0_____0 wrote:
| Someone made a comment here regarding magic recently that this
| reminded me of.
|
| Sometimes you can make something appear magical by spending far
| more time on the effect than anyone would ever think to do.
|
| Stunning work. I admire and envy the focus.
| hinkley wrote:
| The same can be true of magic.
|
| Penn and Teller's Fool Us had a couple of contestants per year
| that did a trick the hardest way possible. A couple times they
| gave the person the prize even though they knew how it was
| done. Like the people who "shuffled" an entire deck into a
| specific order, and/or used precise cuts rather than using
| marked cards or swapping the deck.
|
| There have been a couple people they've had back three times
| even if they knew how they did it, because they're just so
| good.
| ska wrote:
| > Sometimes you can make something appear magical by spending
| far more time on the effect than anyone would ever think to
| do.
|
| This is as good a definition of stage magic as anything, I
| suspect.
| hinkley wrote:
| Comedy has some of the same. Some comedians look like
| they're just rambling through random ideas that have popped
| into their heads, when in fact it's a patter they've been
| practicing for months and months. I have a lot of respect
| for the ones who can hide the seams between their various
| jokes and make them look like the funny uncle at family
| gatherings just riffing off of people or themselves for an
| hour.
| ajcp wrote:
| It's funny you say that because whenever I see a standup
| special and the comedian seems to randomly be prompted by
| something they see in the audience/off camera that leads
| them down a bespoke, yet perfect response/thread I have
| to think they are just making the prompt up.
| bb88 wrote:
| What if you can do that with magic and comedy both at the
| same time? You get someone like Markobi.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJX-z0O9TOE
| sneak wrote:
| It takes a huge amount of skill and talent to effectively
| ape Lennart Green.
| the_af wrote:
| To be clear: if they absolutely know how the magician did it,
| they do NOT award the prize.
|
| They do award the prize if they know there's more than one
| way the person could have done it, but they cannot tell for
| sure which one was it.
|
| And they make it clear their show is not about the prize
| anyway, it's about the wonder of watching cool magic acts.
| The prize is a gimmick (but still, it's always fair and never
| staged).
|
| They always celebrate good magic, regardless of whether they
| can figure it out or not.
| stevage wrote:
| Yeah or the guy who can pour a whole deck of cards onto the
| table and grab the right card out of the air. It's not a
| trick, he's just insanely practised at it.
| lisper wrote:
| The detail on this thing is just insane. The amount of time and
| effort put in is comparable to what it takes to build an actual
| aircraft.
|
| [UPDATE] Just to clarify: building an actual jetliner is
| obviously orders of magnitude harder than building this model.
| But I think building this model is probably comparable to
| building a light aircraft like this one:
| https://www.vansaircraft.com/rv-14/
| 4gotunameagain wrote:
| The amount of time and effort spent in this is impressive, but
| orders of magnitude away from being comparable to building an
| actual modern airliner.
|
| We are talking about millions of man hours spread all over the
| globe and throughout the years.
| lisper wrote:
| Oh yeah, I should clarify: I didn't mean that building this
| model was comparable to building an actual airliner. But I do
| think it's comparable to building, say, an RV-14
| (https://www.vansaircraft.com/rv-14/).
| Loughla wrote:
| Jesus can you relax? Sometimes statements aren't meant to be
| taken exactly literally. I don't mean to be hateful but what
| do you get out of being needlessly pedantic? Obviously
| there's more time actually spent on modern airliners. OP is
| using it as an analogy to show that it's a complicated
| process, and isn't saying that it's scientifically 1 to 1
| exact.
|
| It's this type of comment that makes people be needlessly
| careful on this site more than any other. When you know there
| is someone just waiting to correct you when you use a simple
| turn of phrase.
| psygn89 wrote:
| Maybe the person is on the spectrum or something and has
| trouble with understanding nuances and figurative language,
| who knows.
| wslh wrote:
| Your point was clear to me, we can say that at the individual*n
| (n>=1) level of effort is comparable.
| Liftyee wrote:
| I cannot begin to comprehend how this was put together.
| Unbelievable amounts of dedication must have been involved.
| ComputerGuru wrote:
| (2014)
|
| I remember seeing this when it was first making the rounds
| (though I thought it was earlier than '14, but that's what all
| the press links date to). Incredible.
| mzs wrote:
| He's been at it since May 2008 and the latests updates on
| instagram are from this year:
| https://www.instagram.com/luca.iaconi.stewart/
| ComputerGuru wrote:
| Thanks for (possibly) vindicating my memory! I recall seeing
| this circa 2010 +/- a year or so.
| polishdude20 wrote:
| How does he come up with the 2d designs? They need to all fit
| together right? I feel like there some missing step between the
| reference material and the 2D illustrator designs.
| gavmor wrote:
| I'm interested in this, too! I've been mulling over the design
| of 3D puzzles from 2D, laser-cut MDF.
| gibspaulding wrote:
| Look into Fusion360. I've used it for similar projects in the
| past with some success.
| noduerme wrote:
| I've never tried it, but I wonder if designing in 3D and then
| printing out UV maps would be a good way to go? You'd at
| least end up with all the polygons and an outer shape to cut
| out, although whether you could fold paper along the edges is
| another story.
| SvenL wrote:
| On one page he mentioned that the airline supplied material
| which he used to create the designs in Adobe Illustrator.
| gibspaulding wrote:
| This threw me off too. Sure Illustrator is probably a better
| tool for this than pen and paper, but it seems like far from
| the best choice. I guess that just makes this all the more
| impressive.
| ninalanyon wrote:
| If only I had this degree of focus and willingness to work so
| hard on all the boring bits!
| fsckboy wrote:
| > _all the boring bits_
|
| your problem is not focus or willingness, it's being motivated
| by excitement rather than perfection. it's about the object,
| take yourself and how you feel out of the equation.
| berkes wrote:
| This is also a personality trait. Where ADHD has this in the
| extreme.
|
| I, having ADHD, cannot do any task if it's not motivated by
| excitement and newness (or forced by raw discipline, which is
| extremely energy consuming).
|
| Your comment sounds like "it's just a matter of changing your
| mindset". Maybe I read that wrong. But I know it's not just
| mindset changing. It's, e.g. with ADHD fundamentally wired
| into a brain.
| dylan604 wrote:
| For people that enjoy this type of work, what you call the
| boring bits are the exciting parts.
| 0_____0 wrote:
| The act is the reward. If you can convince yourself this is
| true for various things, you get really good at them fast.
| BillSaysThis wrote:
| If he adds AI, can he make it fly?
| SAI_Peregrinus wrote:
| With the application of sufficient force, any object can be
| made to fly at least once. No AI necessary.
| froggertoaster wrote:
| Humans are just amazing.
| qwertox wrote:
| This is the kind of work billionaires should pay millions for as
| if it were a painting, and display it proudly.
| hk__2 wrote:
| At first I was confused by this "Made from Manila folders" which
| I didn't know; I thought these folders were some kind of
| information from something that happened in Manila, and that the
| author did the scale model based on what he had found in them
| loloquwowndueo wrote:
| Yeah and goldbeater's skin is not literally the skin of the
| actual person who beats the gold :)
| fnord77 wrote:
| hope this ends up in a museum
| ffitch wrote:
| it's very inspiring!
|
| I wonder why manila envelopes. does envelope paper have
| properties uniquely fitted for this kind of modeling, or is it
| just nice color and suitable weight?
| idlewords wrote:
| These are folders, not envelopes. They are pretty stiff and
| hold their shape well. I bet any light card stock would do, but
| everyone of a certain age has experience with these folders;
| the fact that they're so basic makes this achievement extra
| special.
| ffitch wrote:
| I meant the folders, sorry!
|
| Is age the factor here? feels like they're just as ubiquitous
| today as they were when the author was in high school.
|
| I certainly appreciate the idea of crafting something special
| out of seemingly boring material, but the remark that they
| were taught to model with this paper in school made me wonder
| of it does have advantages over basic paper or cardstock.
| 0_____0 wrote:
| I think it may be that it's a fairly uniform thickness
| across manufacturers, whereas if you are getting cardstock
| from different places you would need to pay attention to
| paper weights (gsm).
| pseingatl wrote:
| The model looks cleaner than the aircraft's business class IRL,
| if recent videos are to be believed.
| idlewords wrote:
| To restore balance we need someone to make Manila folders out of
| a 777.
| UniverseHacker wrote:
| And then a full scale flying 777 from Manila folders
| datavirtue wrote:
| Elons next project.
| delichon wrote:
| "The Ultimate Paper Airplane | WIRED"
|
| Ahem. https://newatlas.com/great-paper-airplane-project/21961/
|
| IMHO the actual flight characteristics of the aircraft are inputs
| to the `ultimate?` predicate function.
| kepler1 wrote:
| Made out of manilla file folders is approximately correct for the
| state of Air India's fleet right now.
| polairscience wrote:
| I'll comment on something different. His website is clean and
| awesome. Attention to detail just like the model. Love it.
| sema4hacker wrote:
| Exactly how many millions of hours did this take?
| stevesimmons wrote:
| The Singapore Airlines clip says that one took 750 hours and
| had 3000 parts.
| aaronax wrote:
| For something vaguely similar, as in a meticulous way of making a
| 3D object out of 2D materials with fine details, I recommend the
| Metal Earth products (puzzles?) as I find them to be quite
| rewarding. The complexity is probably two orders of magnitude
| less--think 10-20 hours to assemble the pre-designed and cut
| pieces.
| einpoklum wrote:
| I sympathize with how he must feel thinking about the 777-8 and
| 777-9 entering service soon, displacing the 300ER...
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_777X
| exabrial wrote:
| These planes are incredible to ride on. AA runs a Charlotte <->
| Munich flight... the Premium Economy exceeds expectations for the
| money, like sleeping in a lay-z-boy.
| foooorsyth wrote:
| Premium economy to MUC out of CLT always annoys me because the
| legs that hold the seats up can _possibly_ be right in the
| middle of your under-seat space, making putting a briefcase
| under the seat in front of you impossible (the legs are
| unevenly spaced throughout the row so not all seats lose the
| space). They also have those fold-down footrests that I never
| actually use and take up more space. Paying more for a seat in
| which I might not even be able to access my work laptop is a
| bit annoying.
|
| Man, I sound like a diva.
| exabrial wrote:
| I feel like any class of seating except business suffers from
| that "near seat storage shortage". I tend to carry a soft
| sided satchel instead of a case for the reasons you state: it
| can be jammed pretty much anywhere
| datavirtue wrote:
| I would get a high from the first two or three seats...and
| then....I would abandon the project.
| zombiwoof wrote:
| Amazing
| andrewshadura wrote:
| I've looked up what the hell is a manila folder, and it turned
| out to be a paper folder looking exactly like a Windows folder
| icon, even with a matching yellowish colour. Maybe I grew up and
| lived in all the wrong countries, but I've never seen such a
| folder in my life.
| matthewmcg wrote:
| This is wonderful. The loving dedication to getting the details
| right reminds me of the mechanic that built a functional scale
| model of a Ferrari 312PB race car as shown on this classic Top
| Gear episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeUMDY01uUA
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