Natural adaptation aims to provide the best performances, even though not for any needs. I was impressed by the posture of this 3D model, that captures the giraffe efforts in reaching the primary source of life: the water.
-
Size (mm): H250, L434, W240
Medium: paper 160 gsm
Difficulty (1-5): 4
Medium: paper 160 gsm
Difficulty (1-5): 4
-
Model retopologized and adapted from the original 3D model at the “INRIA Gamma team research database Website Collections”. Texture by struckdumb. Setting: picture modified from the original “Times Square” by Martin Duerr.
L’adattamento naturale mira a fornire le prestazioni migliori, anche se non per ogni esigenza. Sono rimasto colpito dalla postura di questo modello 3D, che cattura gli sforzi della giraffa nel raggiungere la fonte primaria di vita: l’acqua.
Dimensioni (mm): Alt. 250, Lung. 434, Larg. 240
Medium: carta 160 g/m2
Difficoltà (1-5): 4
Modello ritopologizzato ed adattato dall’originale modello 3D disponibile sul sito “INRIA Gamma team research database Website Collections”. Texture di struckdumb. Ambientazione: fotografia modificata dall’originale “Times Square” di Martin Duerr. --
From 5 to 28 April 2011 I will be on board of the German research ressel METEOR for a transMediterranean cruise. The principal scientific objective of the cruise (code M84/3) has two closely-linked components: understanding and documenting the large-scale Mediterranean water property distributions, their changes and drivers of those changes, and addressing questions of a future Mediterranean Sea that will increase in dissolved inorganic carbon, might become more stratified and experience changes in circulation and ventilation processes due to global warming. [from Meteor M84 Booklet, ed.: Institut fur Meereskunde Universitat Hamburg] 
When the double cone is placed at the lower end of the frame, it automatically starts to roll upward, giving the impression of defying the universal law of gravitational force. Because of this phenomenon, astonishing in its seeming contradiction of common sense, the apparatus was often described as a “mechanical paradox.” [for more information, visit 
Barenpresse
Canon
COOL4CATS
Paper Forest
Paper Replika
PaperCraft Museum
paperinside.com
Paperkraft.net
PaperModelers
Papermodels II Group
robives.com
Tektonten
World Upside Down
Barking Dogs Automata
Chomick+Meder
Dug North Automata
Keith Newstead
Beppe Grillo's Blog
Emergency
Il Fatto Quotidiano
Maurizio Veraldi