{"id":115,"date":"2022-11-15T23:54:34","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T23:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/vrone\/?p=115"},"modified":"2022-11-16T00:32:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T00:32:41","slug":"george-rickey-kinetic-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cseng.com\/vr90\/2022\/11\/15\/george-rickey-kinetic-sculpture\/","title":{"rendered":"George Rickey Kinetic Sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne_old\/chrin\/images\/chrinitoid2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"137\"\/><figcaption>WorldUp Simulation<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>When I was at university (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), there was a controversial sculpture on campus. Some people hated it, but many engineers found it amazing to watch the huge aluminum slabs sway gently in the breeze. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sculpture disappeared from campus and year later I conducted a search for the Chrinitoid. Ultimately, I found it (in Switzerland) and documented my quest in the RPI Alumni <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rpi.edu\/magazine\/winter2004\/onelastthing.html\">magazine<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is also a page on my personal site:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne_old\/chrin\">https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne_old\/chrin<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As well as his own mini blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paynecentral.com\/chriniblog\">www.paynecentral.com\/chriniblog<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The animated GIF above was a quick WorldUp demo that I made while working at Sense8. It probably took 5 minutes to create and animate given it&#8217;s basic features&#8230;but it may be the only WorldUp artifact I have left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"409\" height=\"594\" src=\"http:\/\/paynecentral.com\/vrone\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2022\/11\/mud1_small.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cseng.com\/vr90\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2022\/11\/mud1_small.jpeg 409w, https:\/\/cseng.com\/vr90\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2022\/11\/mud1_small-207x300.jpeg 207w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 409px) 100vw, 409px\" \/><figcaption>The Chrinitoid &#8211; from RPI Polytechnic<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was at university (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), there was a controversial sculpture on campus. Some people hated it, but many engineers found it amazing to watch the huge aluminum slabs sway gently in the breeze. The sculpture disappeared from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cseng.com\/vr90\/2022\/11\/15\/george-rickey-kinetic-sculpture\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-demos","category-sense8"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cseng.com\/vr90\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cseng.com\/vr90\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cseng.com\/vr90\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cseng.com\/vr90\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cseng.com\/vr90\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cseng.com\/vr90\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/cseng.com\/vr90\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cseng.com\/vr90\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cseng.com\/vr90\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cseng.com\/vr90\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}