The current belief that everyone must now be an inventor is too often interpreted to mean that no one need any longer be a workman.Thomas Maitland (T.M.) Cleland, in February 1940, responding to the end of the so-called avant-garde era of experimentation, in an address delivered at a meeting of The American Institute of Graphic Arts in New York City in an address entitled, “Harsh Words.” (via bobulate)
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At Drexel, he designs amazing mirrors | Philadelphia Inquirer | 01/12/2009
Above: notice the newspaper, a non-reversing mirror.
Armed with a computer, Hicks can customize his creations with exquisite precision. He achieves the desired effect first by characterizing the problem with sophisticated equations. He then programs a computer to spit out the coordinates for tens of thousands of points on the mirror’s surface - each one tilted differently to reflect light in just the right way.
The data are then sent to B-Con Engineering, a Canadian firm that uses a milling machine to make the mirrors out of aluminum. The metal is ground and polished with a diamond bit until the smooth, curvy surfaces emerge - a process that takes up to a day for Hicks’ unusual free-form designs, says company president Brian Creber.
