Nah, there's a fine balance to get to the point where you look at it and think "whoah how is that possible?"
This one, the chains are too bulky and just look like legs. A fine cable instead of chains may help it look more like an impossible illusion.
In any case, it's only interesting in its novelty. As a table it's practically useless, as it's fairly unstable as a table surface. Like I'd be nervous setting a drink down and hoping that nobody will bump the table.
Could you use fine steel wire or something?
Maybe paint it black to help it hide better.
But I agree that they're not worth much more than as an art piece.
>I'd be nervous setting a drink down and hoping that nobody will bump the table.
There's plenty of "normal" small tables that are just as prone to that problem, usually because whoever designed/built them failed to consider proportion and weight distribution and/or didn't understand the engineering required to make the piece stiff enough to handle bumps.
Same goes with these, if you only think of looks rather than beginning with the weight distribution and tension figures needed to make one truly work, it will be a floppy mess.
This one can't help but fail because none of the hardware is anywhere near being able to handle the tension required to stiffen it up...even if you used welded chain or wire rope the screw eyes are a weak point.
But if you address that and can apply the stabilizing force that is usually supplied by gravity and weight (and balance the weight better to ballast it) a structure like that can be as stable as a traditional small table.
But most people have no idea how to even begin to do that, and even traditional furniture design engineering is often beyond the understanding of people who tackle it, even commercial builders get things incredibly wrong all the time.
I hated these reddit tables, this was all they talked about for like a fricking year. they're kinda cool for like 2 minutes and then they're boring, I have no idea why they became "thing", just like with that live-edge epoxy homosexualry.
He's got a point though, these meme projects and the plebbit homosexuals who gush over them are insufferable. Same shit year in year out with these idiots hopping on the hot new thing looking for internet upvotes.
The next moron trap is going to be dry pour cement projects, muppets acting like it's the greatest hack ever even though it has been a known technique since modern cement was in short trousers
>I hated these reddit tables, this was all they talked about for like a fricking year.
If you don't like what they talk about, why do you go there? And why do you bring it here?
It would be theoretically possible but very weak. And you need a very high precision and stuff way to attach the magnets, gap too big and it falls, gap to small and it sticks. It could be a coffee table if you use like fishing magnets, but if you make one mistake and they stick together it’s very difficult to get them apart again
I've actually been thinking about 3D printing a oil lamp display like that. I kinda gave up on it when I didn't find any decent umbrella/rain coat animu girl figures.
To understand it, imagine trying to press the top part to collapse outer wires/chains and as a result you're making the middle wire/chain remind of its existence by its tension that prevents the squeeze
The top of the "bottom" arch is above the bottom of the top arch, so the wire connecting the two is actually pulling upward on the top arch at this one point. But this is not stable, so you need at least three (four shown here) to pull down on the corners to keep the top from tipping over. Its a bit of an illusion and that is the concept of this type of art. Or, its magic.
Got it. The top piece actually hangs from the bottom piece and the corner chains are under equal tension to prevent it from falling to one side. At first I thought the corner chains were actually legs that just look like chains, until I spotted the link that has almost failed from the tension.
The top of the "bottom" arch is above the bottom of the top arch, so the wire connecting the two is actually pulling upward on the top arch at this one point. But this is not stable, so you need at least three (four shown here) to pull down on the corners to keep the top from tipping over. Its a bit of an illusion and that is the concept of this type of art. Or, its magic.
I have been looking into it but could not find any design that would fit in a modern interior. Use chains and it looks like some bdsm thing or medieval larp object, use steel wire and it looks odd because hardwood and steel rarely go together well
Steel wire and glass+stainless, or use nylon wire (with LEDs embedded in the roots to make the nylon glow) alongside matte plastic or aluminium. Carbon fibre strands with carbon fibre resin-set cloth too.
Nah, there's a fine balance to get to the point where you look at it and think "whoah how is that possible?"
This one, the chains are too bulky and just look like legs. A fine cable instead of chains may help it look more like an impossible illusion.
In any case, it's only interesting in its novelty. As a table it's practically useless, as it's fairly unstable as a table surface. Like I'd be nervous setting a drink down and hoping that nobody will bump the table.
Could you use fine steel wire or something?
Maybe paint it black to help it hide better.
But I agree that they're not worth much more than as an art piece.
>I'd be nervous setting a drink down and hoping that nobody will bump the table.
There's plenty of "normal" small tables that are just as prone to that problem, usually because whoever designed/built them failed to consider proportion and weight distribution and/or didn't understand the engineering required to make the piece stiff enough to handle bumps.
Same goes with these, if you only think of looks rather than beginning with the weight distribution and tension figures needed to make one truly work, it will be a floppy mess.
This one can't help but fail because none of the hardware is anywhere near being able to handle the tension required to stiffen it up...even if you used welded chain or wire rope the screw eyes are a weak point.
But if you address that and can apply the stabilizing force that is usually supplied by gravity and weight (and balance the weight better to ballast it) a structure like that can be as stable as a traditional small table.
But most people have no idea how to even begin to do that, and even traditional furniture design engineering is often beyond the understanding of people who tackle it, even commercial builders get things incredibly wrong all the time.
This is the shit like a newly divorced dude going through a mid-life crisis buys. And then he meets a chick who makes him trash it 2 months later.
I hated these reddit tables, this was all they talked about for like a fricking year. they're kinda cool for like 2 minutes and then they're boring, I have no idea why they became "thing", just like with that live-edge epoxy homosexualry.
Still seething about that other thread, I see
He's got a point though, these meme projects and the plebbit homosexuals who gush over them are insufferable. Same shit year in year out with these idiots hopping on the hot new thing looking for internet upvotes.
The next moron trap is going to be dry pour cement projects, muppets acting like it's the greatest hack ever even though it has been a known technique since modern cement was in short trousers
>I hated these reddit tables, this was all they talked about for like a fricking year.
If you don't like what they talk about, why do you go there? And why do you bring it here?
cry more about it
It seems like an interesting art piece but feels like it would wobble around so much you can't use it as a table.
Permanently worried that I'll put my coffee mug down on the sweet spot that unbalances it and flips over like a rat trap going off.
I wonder if a tensegrity structure made with only magnets applying the tension could be stable? I suspect so, but I've never seen one.
It would be theoretically possible but very weak. And you need a very high precision and stuff way to attach the magnets, gap too big and it falls, gap to small and it sticks. It could be a coffee table if you use like fishing magnets, but if you make one mistake and they stick together it’s very difficult to get them apart again
the hardest part about them is telling your dad youre gay
For some reason, it makes me think of those rain lamps that were popular in the 70s.
Kinda want to see these modded with anime figurines. The lewder the better.
I've actually been thinking about 3D printing a oil lamp display like that. I kinda gave up on it when I didn't find any decent umbrella/rain coat animu girl figures.
I like those oil lights, my friends got one
the must be under a lot of stress - the closest top link is failing and the whole thing could fly apart any minute.
So how does it work?
To understand it, imagine trying to press the top part to collapse outer wires/chains and as a result you're making the middle wire/chain remind of its existence by its tension that prevents the squeeze
Got it. The top piece actually hangs from the bottom piece and the corner chains are under equal tension to prevent it from falling to one side. At first I thought the corner chains were actually legs that just look like chains, until I spotted the link that has almost failed from the tension.
The top of the "bottom" arch is above the bottom of the top arch, so the wire connecting the two is actually pulling upward on the top arch at this one point. But this is not stable, so you need at least three (four shown here) to pull down on the corners to keep the top from tipping over. Its a bit of an illusion and that is the concept of this type of art. Or, its magic.
I have been looking into it but could not find any design that would fit in a modern interior. Use chains and it looks like some bdsm thing or medieval larp object, use steel wire and it looks odd because hardwood and steel rarely go together well
Steel wire and glass+stainless, or use nylon wire (with LEDs embedded in the roots to make the nylon glow) alongside matte plastic or aluminium. Carbon fibre strands with carbon fibre resin-set cloth too.