Some years ago, I downloaded a shipping container (ISO?) model from 3D Warehouse (as it was called then, unsure it's still there) that was all surfaces and 'reverse designed' it in all solids. I still have the model if you ever want it. It's in AutoCAD format and can be saved to others as well.
Some years ago, I downloaded a shipping container (ISO?) model from 3D Warehouse (as it was called then, unsure it's still there) that was all surfaces and 'reverse designed' it in all solids. I still have the model if you ever want it. It's in AutoCAD format and can be saved to others as well.
Here's an old almost-finished quick-and-dirty render of it, sort of standing up, which I know is apparently not really a good idea from an engineering standpoint, since they are engineered to be stacked horizontally. Who'd a thunk!? The floor beams are the black things. I am wondering now if I put the floor in or not, it's been some years. It's a stupid render because there should be all the sexy locking hardware on the other side of the doors, but it's possible I hadn't put them in yet when I test-rendered it:
The semi-abandoned site looks like hell in my browser's dark mode. If I get back to this, I'm going to have to fix that.
Agreed again about the competition angle, if with some caveats. For one example, if some people can't compete one or more ways that others are doing, they might compete through cheating or assorted corruptions or nepotism or whatever. 'It takes all kinds' (what with evolution and diversity and all that).
Shipping Container Cafe - you were sort of reading my mind.
Although not cozy, as a cafe should be. Maybe a community of containers for housing, and a central, conventionally built small cafe - a communal, "living room" so to speak, with crackling fireplace and large open windows, big enough for serving, storytelling, some acoustic music, and warm comradery.
You and Dreamy may be right, that AI pushes us back to that. One can only hope. As JHK says, a different living arrangement.
Thanks for the links. Haven't looked at them yet, but I'll circle back to them. I'm sure they're interesting.
Nothing special. It's just an old 'abandoned' website I found the link to with even older renders thrown up just for fun. (But I do like some abandoned/ghost towns.)
Still though, if I decide to tackle the tiny house project(s), I might end up sifting through the cobwebs of what I've managed to keep.
As for AI, and the future in general, I hear the WEF's 'Great Reset' plan is still on the table and may be being pursued, regardless. AI, Musk's endeavors, electric cars, solar panels, etc., seem to dovetail well with that, yes? Despite Klaus Schwab stepping down? As one who does engineering, it might not be so bad, will it?, competition and all that?
At the same time, many are saying it won't pan out like some think or hope. Time will tell, and maybe very soon.
Those and similar 'forces that be' are generally what we mere specialised machine-cogs talk about hereon rather than are really able to control in any significant capacity. Nevertheless, aside from the above project, as my answer to machine-cog transcendance, I've in part been looking at creating an alternative 'glocal' society to compete with the State. (I almost joined an ecovillage.)
Crazy, I guess, but so is the State, and we live it each day.
Speaking of cogs, what kind of engineering do you do? Mechanical? You could invent a specialized throat-punching robot/android, say for riots against corrupt governments. As things unfold, it could be lucrative, as long as cash remains king of course and inflation doesn't eat into the profits too fast.
BTW, apparently, OpenAI's ChatGPT v.03 has hit AGI (artificial general intelligence), at least by some, likely problematic, definitions, just last week...
We might soon be able to do all our design and engineering by text/spoken-word prompts, at least before civ declines significantly, after which, in the face of failing supply-chains, we can design our cafe-teahouse with a reciprocal roof (wood and thatch), trulli-type walls and an earthen floor, all with local materials.
"...we can design our cafe-teahouse with a reciprocal roof (wood and thatch), trulli-type walls and an earthen floor, all with local materials." ~ Strange Bedfellow
Zazzy - for some reason, you bring out the philosophical in me. So, throat-punching aside, I'm 100% down with the above cafe design - preferred actually.
Most would say this goes back to more primitive. I disagree - I say that environment is simpler, more organic and frees up mind-space.
Technological advances are making us more primitive - anything that discourages or eliminates critical-thinking, for the masses, is the hallmark of primitive.
Closest to Structural Engineering, with limited exposure to the rest - mechanical, electrical, thermodynamics, hydrodynamics, etc. - a creator, you as well.
For the throat-punching robots, watch China. Have you seen some of the "dog-robots" they have? They can cover almost any terrain, swim, with head mounted weapons out of the water - insane.
In my mind's eye, I can already see the dystopian, asymmetric battles between men and these machines. I don't think it's too far off unfortunately.
~ Shipping Container Cafe ~
Some years ago, I downloaded a shipping container (ISO?) model from 3D Warehouse (as it was called then, unsure it's still there) that was all surfaces and 'reverse designed' it in all solids. I still have the model if you ever want it. It's in AutoCAD format and can be saved to others as well.
Here's an old almost-finished quick-and-dirty render of it, sort of standing up, which I know is apparently not really a good idea from an engineering standpoint, since they are engineered to be stacked horizontally. Who'd a thunk!? The floor beams are the black things. I am wondering now if I put the floor in or not, it's been some years. It's a stupid render because there should be all the sexy locking hardware on the other side of the doors, but it's possible I hadn't put them in yet when I test-rendered it:
resilution.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/house6_container-temp0006.jpeg
Hey look, a half-designed abandoned two-storey treehouse using disassembled pallet wood! ;)
resilution.wordpress.com/2016/09/07/project001treehouse/
The semi-abandoned site looks like hell in my browser's dark mode. If I get back to this, I'm going to have to fix that.
Agreed again about the competition angle, if with some caveats. For one example, if some people can't compete one or more ways that others are doing, they might compete through cheating or assorted corruptions or nepotism or whatever. 'It takes all kinds' (what with evolution and diversity and all that).
Shipping Container Cafe - you were sort of reading my mind.
Although not cozy, as a cafe should be. Maybe a community of containers for housing, and a central, conventionally built small cafe - a communal, "living room" so to speak, with crackling fireplace and large open windows, big enough for serving, storytelling, some acoustic music, and warm comradery.
You and Dreamy may be right, that AI pushes us back to that. One can only hope. As JHK says, a different living arrangement.
Thanks for the links. Haven't looked at them yet, but I'll circle back to them. I'm sure they're interesting.
Nothing special. It's just an old 'abandoned' website I found the link to with even older renders thrown up just for fun. (But I do like some abandoned/ghost towns.)
Still though, if I decide to tackle the tiny house project(s), I might end up sifting through the cobwebs of what I've managed to keep.
As for AI, and the future in general, I hear the WEF's 'Great Reset' plan is still on the table and may be being pursued, regardless. AI, Musk's endeavors, electric cars, solar panels, etc., seem to dovetail well with that, yes? Despite Klaus Schwab stepping down? As one who does engineering, it might not be so bad, will it?, competition and all that?
At the same time, many are saying it won't pan out like some think or hope. Time will tell, and maybe very soon.
Those and similar 'forces that be' are generally what we mere specialised machine-cogs talk about hereon rather than are really able to control in any significant capacity. Nevertheless, aside from the above project, as my answer to machine-cog transcendance, I've in part been looking at creating an alternative 'glocal' society to compete with the State. (I almost joined an ecovillage.)
Crazy, I guess, but so is the State, and we live it each day.
Speaking of cogs, what kind of engineering do you do? Mechanical? You could invent a specialized throat-punching robot/android, say for riots against corrupt governments. As things unfold, it could be lucrative, as long as cash remains king of course and inflation doesn't eat into the profits too fast.
BTW, apparently, OpenAI's ChatGPT v.03 has hit AGI (artificial general intelligence), at least by some, likely problematic, definitions, just last week...
We might soon be able to do all our design and engineering by text/spoken-word prompts, at least before civ declines significantly, after which, in the face of failing supply-chains, we can design our cafe-teahouse with a reciprocal roof (wood and thatch), trulli-type walls and an earthen floor, all with local materials.
"...we can design our cafe-teahouse with a reciprocal roof (wood and thatch), trulli-type walls and an earthen floor, all with local materials." ~ Strange Bedfellow
Zazzy - for some reason, you bring out the philosophical in me. So, throat-punching aside, I'm 100% down with the above cafe design - preferred actually.
Most would say this goes back to more primitive. I disagree - I say that environment is simpler, more organic and frees up mind-space.
Technological advances are making us more primitive - anything that discourages or eliminates critical-thinking, for the masses, is the hallmark of primitive.
Closest to Structural Engineering, with limited exposure to the rest - mechanical, electrical, thermodynamics, hydrodynamics, etc. - a creator, you as well.
For the throat-punching robots, watch China. Have you seen some of the "dog-robots" they have? They can cover almost any terrain, swim, with head mounted weapons out of the water - insane.
In my mind's eye, I can already see the dystopian, asymmetric battles between men and these machines. I don't think it's too far off unfortunately.