Nice hexayurt, and god those 3D images are cool. Hard to see at first, but when they pop, *wow.*
The 8' high door is hard. It's very nice architecturally but it's always been a bear to build, which is one of the reasons I've generally not pushed it very hard. I think a small "dormer" type door, giving a 6' high entry way maybe two and a half feet wide is probably the way to go, like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dormer Did you see many other hexayurts at Burning Man this year? Any idea what the rough yurt count was?! I got the impression that a lot of people were building, but never got a clear sense of how many were on the playa. Vinay On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Tom Brown <[email protected]>wrote: > I saw the zipper hexayurt at the Burn -- we were across DNA from each other > at about 6:15. It was VERY impressive. > > I took my "tall door" hexayurt back to the Playa this year with some slight > modifications. Not much to report, need to clean the panels better so the > tape will stick better. The tall "tesselated facet" door is cumbersome and > hard to tape at the top, although my fine tuning of panel sizes and shapes > from last year helped somewhat with that. I am considering a new door > structure for next year but I haven't decided what it's going to be yet. > > My hexahurt can be seen here: http://www.worldsbest3d.com/BM2009-089-c.jpg > (3d image of the 3 hexayurts in our camp... mine has the orange tie-down > straps anchoring the tall door frame. Almost completely obscured behind > mine is trIpod's, the 3D photographer who took these shots.) Here's a view > of the front of my yurt in the background behind a dancing Th1mble: > http://www.worldsbest3d.com/BM2009-040-c.jpg > > I may have a better photo of my front door somewhere -- I didn't take many > pictures this Burn and have yet to download my photos (need to do it soon.) > I probably have a picture from last year somewhere. This was my 3rd Burning > Man in a hexayurt and I'm still convinced it's the best way to camp on the > Playa. > > By the way, my camp mate's other 3D photos from this year can be found > here: > http://www.worldsbest3d.com/BurningMan.htm > > -Tommy > > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Vinay <[email protected]> wrote: > >> http://rotordesign.com/bm/?cat=9 >> >> Wow that's a nice piece of work - good lord, why do these people never >> write to me and send links! >> >> (I suppose I should ask them on the site!) >> >> Vinay >> >> -- >> Vinay Gupta >> Free Science and Engineering in the Global Public Interest >> > > > > -- Vinay Gupta Free Science and Engineering in the Global Public Interest http://bit.ly/flucode - please follow the Flu Code if you are in a flu-effected area. It protects us all. http://guptaoption.com/map - social project connection map http://hexayurt.com - free/open next generation human sheltering http://hexayurt.com/plan - the whole systems, big picture vision Gizmo Project VOIP : (USA) 775-743-1851 Skype/Gizmo/Gtalk/AIM: hexayurt Twitter: @hexayurt http://twitter.com/hexayurt UK Cell : +44 (0) 0795 425 3533 / USA VOIP (+1) 775-743-1851 "If it doesn't fit, force it." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hexayurt" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
