Monthly Archives: February 2010
Knurl I
17 Swedish Designers
If you are in the Twin Cities do yourself a favor and check out the 17 Swedish Designers exhibition at the American Swedish Institute. Some great work from some pretty talented folks including:
The ASI’s permanent collection of Orrefors is pretty sweet as well.
Ron Arad
Sol Lewitt
Sol Lewitt: Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution.
I don’t think Sol will replace Mies as mnima’s patron saint, but I love this particular bon mot.
Current Work VI
SpaceClaim & Zoom
Is anyone else having problems with SpaceClaim 2009+ displaying geometry correctly when working at high(ish) zooms? A simple test to illustrate:
- Launch SpaceClaim
- Draw 5in x 5in square
- Click Zoom In 4 times. Note the corners no longer appear to be at right angles
- Click Zoom In once more. Note one leg of square disappears entirely
An interesting thing to note is that by hovering with the Trim Away tool, the true forms of entities are revealed. To wit:
This trick would also work on our simple test case of the 5 inch square above.
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