Esoteric spring cleaning
And there was light
@avernos, on more than one occasion (two) suggested that this piece would benefit from lighting. I was reluctant to take this step due to lack of materials and tolls required. However, I found 3 tea lights I bought over a year ago and still not used. Of course they are useless as they are, but they made me think…
I disassembled one and found out that they are in fact quite modular, and some of their part are rather useful.
I went back to the Internet to check for inspiration on how we imagine ancients were lighting insides of their buildings and came up with this:
I don’t think this is particularly well grounded in historical/archaeological sources, but I liked the idea. I fired up my sketchup and designed several different shapes of ‘bowl of fire’.
In the end I chose two designs, one with battery inside and one with wires to the battery hidden somewhere. Those are the winners in x-ray view:
I then printed three of each design (just in case, I actually plan to use two), and started tinkering with layout.
I liked last option the most. I need to decide if I want to cut those legs shorter…That would probably help with the composition, but affect proportions of those pieces in negative way. Any ideas welcome.
To make them shine, I used pieces of some shity wire I sometimes use on my bases and parts of actual tea lights for battery housing and convenient switch. The prototype looks like this:
I win, also you do to by doing the work. We’ll call it a 50:50 split shall we