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11 years of schooling.
6 years of higher education.
3 GCSEs, a diploma and an honours degree.
...and it still took me an entire hour to figure out how to fold a sheet
of cardboard into the shape of a box! >_<
FAIL.
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"Invisible" <voi### [at] dev null> wrote in message
news:4a5c5926$1@news.povray.org...
> 11 years of schooling.
>
> 6 years of higher education.
>
> 3 GCSEs, a diploma and an honours degree.
>
> ...and it still took me an entire hour to figure out how to fold a sheet
> of cardboard into the shape of a box! >_<
>
> FAIL.
Compared to how long it took for humanity to do that, that's nothing. Then
again, if you had a sample box in front of you, or if you had access to the
internet and failed to make use of it, I agree with your sentiment.
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> Compared to how long it took for humanity to do that, that's nothing. Then
> again, if you had a sample box in front of you, or if you had access to
> the
> internet and failed to make use of it, I agree with your sentiment.
Or if you could just remember a previous cardboard box you had put together
or taken part...
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>> Compared to how long it took for humanity to do that, that's nothing.
>> Then
>> again, if you had a sample box in front of you, or if you had access
>> to the
>> internet and failed to make use of it, I agree with your sentiment.
>
> Or if you could just remember a previous cardboard box you had put
> together or taken part...
This one was slightly unusual in that it locks together without glue.
The sides fold twice over themselves, allowing a tab to slot into a
small groove. Most boxes you find are glued together, and have no double
thickness walls.
But even so, you'd think I could work that out in less than an hour, no?
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> This one was slightly unusual in that it locks together without glue. The
> sides fold twice over themselves, allowing a tab to slot into a small
> groove. Most boxes you find are glued together, and have no double
> thickness walls.
Oh I see, I thought you meant you had a plane sheet of cardboard and you
were making a box out of it.
> But even so, you'd think I could work that out in less than an hour, no?
All the ones I've seen like you mention have pictures on the side to tell
you how to assemble them.
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scott wrote:
> Oh I see, I thought you meant you had a plane sheet of cardboard and you
> were making a box out of it.
>
> All the ones I've seen like you mention have pictures on the side to
> tell you how to assemble them.
Our parts department has a stack of machined cardboard. Pick up a sheet
and with a few simple folds, it becomes a relatively sturdy box for
shipment. (It's pretty thick cardboard.) Plain brown, however; no
instructions in sight. But hey, the girl in packing can do the whole
trick in about 20 seconds, with a series of well-rehersed movements.
(The card is ready cut, scored, creased, etc.)
I'm just frustrated that it took me so long to figure out. It's not
actually that complicated, and the precise alignment of the various cuts
and creases tells you everything you need to work it out. I'm just very
slow. :-(
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> Our parts department has a stack of machined cardboard. Pick up a sheet
> and with a few simple folds, it becomes a relatively sturdy box for
> shipment. (It's pretty thick cardboard.) Plain brown, however; no
> instructions in sight.
Yeh without instructions I think a lot of people would be baffled the first
time they see those type of boxes. They're pretty strong once assembled
though.
> But hey, the girl in packing can do the whole trick in about 20 seconds,
> with a series of well-rehersed movements. (The card is ready cut, scored,
> creased, etc.)
At the factory I used to work at we (well actually an AGV) just put a pallet
of flat pack boxes in one end and they came out the other end full and taped
up :-)
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Invisible wrote:
> I'm just very slow. :-(
Some people just don't have good 3D visualization skills. It's actually one
of six different mental/visual tests psychologists use: Here's a picture of
a 3D cube and three unfolded cubes... which matches the folded up cube?
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"We'd like you to back-port all the changes in 2.0
back to version 1.0."
"We've done that already. We call it 2.0."
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>> I'm just very slow. :-(
>
> Some people just don't have good 3D visualization skills. It's actually
> one of six different mental/visual tests psychologists use: Here's a
> picture of a 3D cube and three unfolded cubes... which matches the
> folded up cube?
The daft thing is, in my Morrisby test, I scored something like 98% on
the "mechanical understanding" section...
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
> > I'm just very slow. :-(
> Some people just don't have good 3D visualization skills. It's actually one
> of six different mental/visual tests psychologists use: Here's a picture of
> a 3D cube and three unfolded cubes... which matches the folded up cube?
Am I the only one who has noticed an improvement in mental 3D visualization
skills after having played with POV-Ray for a long time?-)
(I think POV-Ray is especially excellent for training this skill
precisely because of its lack of graphical modeler. When all objects
must be entered as numbers, you really need to visualize the coordinates
and orientations in your head...)
--
- Warp
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