urythane molds

These are images for the poly-urythane molding process. The CNC cut foa models were too flimsy to withstand the repeated vacuum forming, so itis necessary to mold the plastic "flock-bots" out of a negative PVC mold of the objects. As you can see, it is a messy and time-restaintive process. Also, it is important to level the molds so the they are poured evenly. Please DO NOT mistake my kitchen fora meth-lab. It only looks like this for a minute.

Structure Mock-up

These images are for the mock-up version of the structure. It is made out of a series of traingles that act as "nesting" areas for the flock-bots.

Ok, so it's not perfect, but it gives an accurate idea of what the motions will be like. The track system is a very simple layout of 3 ft tracks (this decreases the amount of diffential length change of the guide line to about 6").

Flock Wall 2-9-09.