Festival Dance Floor Installation Thingy
If you're job involves looking at a screen all day, but you want to look at (at least some) real life things during your life, a good starting point is to not design things in CAD but build real models instead. Another advantage of this method is that the visual effect of the installation can be estimated and optimized much better, at least for artistic works. This it the first scale model I build. Thanks a lot to Anne (see vermi.studio) for painting the floor like grass that has been flattened and faded by the dancing crowd.
Unfortunately at some point you need to get back to the screen, since the easiest way to get the cutting pattern for the cloths is to just redo everything in CAD and export the drawings.
And it also looks nice in CAD I guess
The sails are made from Jersey like tissue that is cut into triangles. The spline-like curved shape comes purely from the stretch of the tissue (what even works better is Lycra or other stretchy tissues). At each corner of the triangular sails 40 cm long flat cords are attached by sewing. The cords are color-coded so its easier to set the thing up. One important consideration to make is, whether you plan to use the installation for your cats birthday party or for a commercial festival. Most festivals have some regulations regarding the fire protection class of whatever you build there, especially when it comes to tissue. So please check the regulations before ordering any materials. In most cases it needs to be certified with some fire protection class.
That's how it looks in full scale at night
View from the forest
Some people on the dance floor for scale
Top Hub, and you can also see the circular mirrors at the edges
And how it looks at daytime
It's also possible to mount the sails on trees if there are any, then you even don't need to set up the poles
If you want to download the FreeCAD model, here's the link: X-TODO-X
