folding tent

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folding paper tent V 2.0

Use script to simulate folding process, and create pattern. And generate a space which can be unfolded into a flat sheet or folded into a densy pad.

surface analysis

to make a curve surface with limited panels. The system is to fit the manufactorial tech.
in this surface, there are 12 types of panels, and each panel is a kind of twisted square.

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12 dead cities 10-12

BISSO----the locked city
Bisso is an arrogant but self-contempt city, the only city in its own world. It doesn’t have and real friend or enemy as there is no other city it trusts. Bisso is surrounded with a super high city wall, which is such high as no one can see inside from outside and vice versa. All citizens in Bisso deeply love their city, believing it’s the most clean, modern, beautiful and convenient city in the world. It doesn’t welcome foreign visitor, while no one desires to visit outward. This is an isolated city, keeping distance from all other “dirty”, and “evil” cities and wishing all of them will die in one day for safety. On the contrary, all other cities just treat Bisso as a dead one, or there is never such a city.

BUSSON - the sterile city
Everyone who has been to Busson will appreciate its luxury, thrive and elegance. None of them will not praise it, love it except admire it. Though you can track its excellent history, its palmy present, you can never expect the future of this city. Nonetheless, Busson has even no plan for its future, who just intends to pretend a beautiful but empty vision base on its past assets. Further, Busson is only a sample of city rather than a real one, a sample for memory containment, though it seems like a real, alive one.

DILLE - the delirious city
If god wants someone to die, must let he be crazy firstly. This rule works as well to city, and Dille is such one. The reason we see it as a delirious one is there is by no means any constrain Or limit to this city. Dille is a city dare to break any tradition, create any innovation, change any situation and utilize any methods to satisfy its desire, its endless desire. Further more, everything is in rapid development and the city as a whole is changing from tip to toe everyday. It’s different from morning to evening, and from yesterday to today. Dille has must already been dead for a vast mount of times if the life of a city is just its vision. In this city, there is nothing impossible, which can do what other cities dare not, think what other cities dare not and say what other cities dare not. It’s such a powerful city, running, crying and slipping without destination.

12 dead cities 7-9

DAGON----the transfusion city
Dagon is a highly developed and modern city, equipped with all kinds of supply systems, such as electricity, net, power, water, gas, food, drainage and resources…but all of these systems are connected through a very thin pipe from outside of the city. Surprisingly, this pipe is not only thin, but also has only one switch, which are not controlled but this city disappointedly. Dagon did not send anyone to defend this crucial switch as they thought any guard can easily control its destiny and return to threaten the city terribly. As a result, the only thing left was pray for the future, in afraid of someone turning off the switch in one day to kill their city immediately. In reality, it is a fragile and delicate city, filled with anxiety and dread. This city will of course die in a near future in case of a click of the button. Nonetheless, it would not be a sad thing for the city, but a kind of release.

DORO - the corrupt city
Every city has two faces, one is elegant while the other one is evil, and the crucial thing is keeping the balance between elegant and evil to maintain the city stable. Doro is a different one, though, which intends to be extreme. In previous years, Doro is a super elegant city, abolishing all crime and sin, while everything in the city is just as fine as a chorale. Yet everything has changed since Doro was beaten in the fight with another wild city. Its elegance is difficult to remain any longer, and starts to transfer to the opposite. As a result, Doro is fill with foul atmosphere and in decline into an indulgent one. Further more, to be extremely, Doro keeps on corrupting as low as possible and conduce its capsize finally as losing its balance. Doro is dead, and can never turn back once again.

HUAN - the illusion city
In our world, most cities will pay undue attention to their own features, being unsatisfied with their reflection in the mirror more or less, though their so called drawbacks are frequently neglected by others. Huan is one of them. However, the difference is what Huan has seen in the mirror is another city, which is more beautiful in her mind, and desires to be the same as her reflection. As a result, this city begins to dress up herself to simulate the city in the mirror. Nonetheless, its reflection is changing as the city changing herself, so they can never be the same. Even though she has already dressed up too much actually, there is no sign that she will give up. Believing in the more she change, for instance, the more they will be similar to each other. Once they became the same one occasionally, the original Huan has already been dead for a long time.

12 dead cities 4-6

KULAY - the puppet city
If a foreigner arrives Kulay, he will find nothing abnormal but a general city, while the native residences do not agree with it, who actually also recognize themselves as foreigner. In reality, nobody is real residence of the city, and everyone is foreigner. At the heart of this matter is that the city does not belong to its residence, or itself. The city, as well as its people and activities, are controlled by a certain kind of power, pushed forward or pulled back. Nobody knows what the power is though, they all agree with its existence. The root cause of Kulay’s death is that it has become a tool or background rather than a real city. The city exist for a purpose beyond itself, maybe just for another city. As a result, whether the city is remain alive or dead is not crucial anymore as the city does not won its life from tip to toe.

TIKYO - the rust city
It was once a vibrant and active city, at present appearing to be rusty and rigid as this place is overused. Everything runs over a limit will slip to its contrary, as the first abloom flower will fade first, and the higher one climbs up, the harder he/she will fall off. Tikyo is full of various of remains as proof of its power in the past, as well as abandoned autos, closed factories, bankrupted theaters and locked schools. They congest to each other and fill out this city left little space to breath. Tikyo die for not taking the responsibility to clean these stuff in time, but just put aside once used. It just focused on development if there still some space remains. While no more space available, it is already too late to clean up. Clearly, there is a limit of how many things one can eat before his/her stomach is not capable to digest. Glutton, nonetheless, is also a sin to city.

KONDO - the hostless city
The city of Kondo is a city just like the clothes in the shop window----beautiful though it might be, nobody will really wear it on his/her body. This city is set up for tourism, for photography, or for the proof of something far more important. This is a city which seems as in holiday forever, always few people in the square, few autos in the streets, few business in the stores, while there is only a few days like this in a normal city. However, it is not a decay city, as you can see architecture under construction, gardeners maintaining the landscape and cleaners sweeping the streets. Kondo is a prepared city, though has no idea of what to wait for. Kondo is another kind of city which is already dead when it is alive.

12 dead cities 1-3

XIXI - the diluted city
It is hard to determine whether Xixi is on city of a collection of many cites. As one city, you can not find its whole picture, as the city has already broken down into many pieces, separating form each other and keep away from each other. However, as a collection of different cities, you can neither recognize the boundary of any city unit nor distinguish them form each other. Furthermore, none of these pieces is complete enough to be considered as a city but only a part of one. The death of Xixi, as a death of city, is because it is absolutely not a city from the beginning.

SIAN - the distaste city
In fact, few people has actually been to Sian, but hate this city as well as the people from it. Without certain reason, Sian just received such a wicked repute, which spread fast aboard. As a result, everyone believes that Sian is as disgusting as the hearsay sounds. Nobody aim to visit it, while its residences do not intend to go out either, resulting in the fact that the hearsay takes place of the real city, kills the city and robs its name as its own. It is possible that Sian has changed its name into another one which you might have heard in chance or even been to the city, the abnormal beautiful one. Nonetheless, you will by no means know that is Sian. As if you do, who will believe you else?

ZOMA - the destruction city
Seldom city can die hard like this, while the moment of its death are framed as the most shining second throughout a city’s life. This moment is remembered, which make the city live in people’s heart because of its death forever. However, Zoma is the lucky one, dead without any omen and absolutely disappeared in one night. This city became a legend, and its image in people’s mind become far more colorful than the reality. As a result, this imagination serves to amplify its beauty of destruction. If there is a destiny, this city would live for its death.

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