I’ve still been constructing the physical structure of the pulley system I’m going to perform with. I spent much of Saturday building the pulleys out of cardboard and then much of Sunday trying to figure out how to mount them so I could move on to the next stage of the project, which is creating the performance.
In my zeal to create the physical presence of this project, I worked on a 3D model of the pulley holders… for far too long. When the dust settled and I put my virtual pencil down, the structure was good, but I was really concerned about having enough time to build it. Cardboard is great for prototyping, but I think there is a tradeoff. It’s a very flexible material, but some of the thinking that goes into designing with it can rival the time spent trying to do precise woodworking.
Kelly helped me find a much better way to move forward: using existing cardboard boxes rather than building a custom frame. This way, I could find out if the using a mouse for the motion tracking would even work properly.
