This was topic of dispute at my shooting club. To prove whether or not it's true we mounted AR500 tombstone targets so that one was mounted solid with the face vertical, one solid with the face angled about 20 degrees down, one swinging with the face vertical, and one swinging with the face angled about 20 degrees down. We then mounted boards above the targets and to the sides so that any fragments would hit the boards. The targets were shot from a distance of 30 feet with a .22 .380, 9mm, .40s&w, and .45acp; 5 rounds each. Solid mount, vertical - fragments hit top and sides. Swinging, vertical - fragments hit top and sides. Solid mount, angled -fragments hit sides, none hit top. Swinging, angled - fragments hit sides, none hit top. Make of it what you will.
#8 ... I find it uniquely depressing that this can be done so perfectly by machine in a tiny fraction of the time that it took one of the ancient masters to create such exquisite pieces. There is no longer any inducement for aspiring artists to learn to sculpt, or paint. AI is putting writers on the shelf as well. Idiocracy, here we come.
We have been in Idiocracy world for well over a decade. Look at our elected officials (all of them). Look at our entertainers become billionaires for not knowing how to do anything (Kardshians, Mr. Beast, every Tiktoker ever, every reality show "star" ever).
I am going to disagree on the #8 comments. The machine/AI carved statue may be perfect but has no soul. In the presence of any of the sculptures by the Greats, you can feel a certain energy, the artistic genius that inspired the piece; its palpable and real. Although there is genius in programing the machine to extract the statue from the raw stone (or plastic as the case may be) there is no soul in the actual work. It was Michelangelo who said that the statue was there, he just cut everything that wasn't the statue...genius, not programed machine.
I'm not sure. Industrialisation made nice things, that were once only available to the filthy rich, within reach of ordinary people. This seems to be just an extension of that process. There is still a difference between a print and an original painting, isn't this more or less the same thing? Soon everyone will be able to afford their very own marble statue. Stonyground.
At the age of 14, I saw Michelangelo’s Pieta. I still remember the awe I felt to know that a human being created it. A machine may replicate but only a human can create such a thing.
Scavenged and recycled by the jetter. At first it cuts slow, but the fine aggregate speeds the gouging process. The downside is that the fluid turns to mud eventually unless you filter a certain amount out. The machine I saw demonstrated had a sump, crystal clear at the start, thick mud by the end of shift. All robotics, set the work piece, download the program, hit start and come back in six hours. Laser accuracy, it could duplicate any part whether steel stone or aluminum. Unreal precision
That is called live wire clamp-on. 1/2 million volts, and "you're safe" because you are at the same voltage as the wire. The metal mesh is used to prevent the voltage travelling thru the wire from inducing a voltage in your muscles, which is uncomfortable. link
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Jack Russell wants more of this
ReplyDelete#2 Slippery when wet
ReplyDelete#4 Can he see the sparks going to his brain. Honey, you are becoming forgetful.
ReplyDelete#8 Now we know how the ancient Egyptians did it.
#1 it's not about the bed - it's the dogpile.
ReplyDelete#9 is impressive
ReplyDelete# 2. She seems like a lot of fun
ReplyDelete# 9. Great reasoning skills by the dog
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#6 should be shown to all the idiots that think if you angle a steel plate down all the fragments will go to the ground.
ReplyDeleteThis was topic of dispute at my shooting club.
DeleteTo prove whether or not it's true we mounted AR500 tombstone targets so that one was mounted solid with the face vertical, one solid with the face angled about 20 degrees down, one swinging with the face vertical, and one swinging with the face angled about 20 degrees down.
We then mounted boards above the targets and to the sides so that any fragments would hit the boards.
The targets were shot from a distance of 30 feet with a .22 .380, 9mm, .40s&w, and .45acp; 5 rounds each.
Solid mount, vertical - fragments hit top and sides.
Swinging, vertical - fragments hit top and sides.
Solid mount, angled -fragments hit sides, none hit top.
Swinging, angled - fragments hit sides, none hit top.
Make of it what you will.
The clip is from this video @ 7:58.
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfDoQwIAaXg
Note that the plate is solidly mounted with the face vertical.
#8 ... I find it uniquely depressing that this can be done so perfectly by machine in a tiny fraction of the time that it took one of the ancient masters to create such exquisite pieces. There is no longer any inducement for aspiring artists to learn to sculpt, or paint. AI is putting writers on the shelf as well. Idiocracy, here we come.
ReplyDeleteI'm in total agreement with you. Some things are better left the way they are.
DeleteWe have been in Idiocracy world for well over a decade.
DeleteLook at our elected officials (all of them). Look at our entertainers become billionaires for not knowing how to do anything (Kardshians, Mr. Beast, every Tiktoker ever, every reality show "star" ever).
We are in Idiocracy world already
I am going to disagree on the #8 comments. The machine/AI carved statue may be perfect but has no soul. In the presence of any of the sculptures by the Greats, you can feel a certain energy, the artistic genius that inspired the piece; its palpable and real.
DeleteAlthough there is genius in programing the machine to extract the statue from the raw stone (or plastic as the case may be) there is no soul in the actual work.
It was Michelangelo who said that the statue was there, he just cut everything that wasn't the statue...genius, not programed machine.
I'm not sure. Industrialisation made nice things, that were once only available to the filthy rich, within reach of ordinary people. This seems to be just an extension of that process. There is still a difference between a print and an original painting, isn't this more or less the same thing? Soon everyone will be able to afford their very own marble statue.
DeleteStonyground.
Stonyground, see Citizen Zed's comment directly above yours.
DeleteStill requires many hours of hand finishing.
DeleteMy husband saw that and asked, “China?”
DeleteI replied, “No, I think that’s marble”.
At the age of 14, I saw Michelangelo’s Pieta. I still remember the awe I felt to know that a human being created it. A machine may replicate but only a human can create such a thing.
Delete#8. So where is all that water going? This looks fishy to me.
ReplyDeleteUm, maybe down a drain in the floor? Like your shower?
DeleteScavenged and recycled by the jetter. At first it cuts slow, but the fine aggregate speeds the gouging process. The downside is that the fluid turns to mud eventually unless you filter a certain amount out.
DeleteThe machine I saw demonstrated had a sump, crystal clear at the start, thick mud by the end of shift. All robotics, set the work piece, download the program, hit start and come back in six hours. Laser accuracy, it could duplicate any part whether steel stone or aluminum. Unreal precision
Those are cooling jets. An end-miil is being used, possibly a ball-nose type.
Delete#4 ummm I think that's still energized. Back away slowly.
ReplyDeleteThat is called live wire clamp-on. 1/2 million volts, and "you're safe" because you are at the same voltage as the wire. The metal mesh is used to prevent the voltage travelling thru the wire from inducing a voltage in your muscles, which is uncomfortable.
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#6 When dreams meet reality.
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