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Billirwindesigns
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My artistic interests and compositions include several areas. Painting, Drawing, Sculpting, Photography, and Photograph Restoration. My interest in joining a group of physicists besides enjoying my personal association with science-minded people which has been a good and positive one historically.
I have come here with you and this group to learn about something that I need to know in order to create a sculpture that I want to make and believe that it is possible to do, but honestly know what I don't know and appear here humbly to learn some specifics that I will need to know to make my sculpture.
First a brief history of the work I want to do. In 1978 I carved a catfish out of walnut which included a large rock base and a mix of brass and bronze rods for barbels and a pivotal mounting system between the rock and the walnut catfish. Today I want to do a similar creation except I want to use some urethane foam (to carve the fish), a rock as a base, and the proper placement of electromagnets in the rock base and regular magnets inside of the urethane foam fish.
The idea here, if you haven't already guessed is to create the state of the fish floating in place above the rock. I know pretty much nothing about how to do this, except that the magnetic poles should be the same to create a rejection field (my term) between the rock and the fish. Perhaps there might even be some additions of opposite poles to create an area of attraction, but I don't know.
Therefore, those who can share with me the relationship of weight, magnet specifications to separate the fish from the rock and whatever else I must include in my design, that person or group of persons are my instructors. Any interest or questions please let me know.
This is a project that I am prepared to be involved with until I achieve a reasonable level of success, weight and distance numbers will have to be determined before, during and at completion on the carving and composition to fit what are a set of specific mathematical standards to create the proper field.
I have come here with you and this group to learn about something that I need to know in order to create a sculpture that I want to make and believe that it is possible to do, but honestly know what I don't know and appear here humbly to learn some specifics that I will need to know to make my sculpture.
First a brief history of the work I want to do. In 1978 I carved a catfish out of walnut which included a large rock base and a mix of brass and bronze rods for barbels and a pivotal mounting system between the rock and the walnut catfish. Today I want to do a similar creation except I want to use some urethane foam (to carve the fish), a rock as a base, and the proper placement of electromagnets in the rock base and regular magnets inside of the urethane foam fish.
The idea here, if you haven't already guessed is to create the state of the fish floating in place above the rock. I know pretty much nothing about how to do this, except that the magnetic poles should be the same to create a rejection field (my term) between the rock and the fish. Perhaps there might even be some additions of opposite poles to create an area of attraction, but I don't know.
Therefore, those who can share with me the relationship of weight, magnet specifications to separate the fish from the rock and whatever else I must include in my design, that person or group of persons are my instructors. Any interest or questions please let me know.
This is a project that I am prepared to be involved with until I achieve a reasonable level of success, weight and distance numbers will have to be determined before, during and at completion on the carving and composition to fit what are a set of specific mathematical standards to create the proper field.