Sorry, the roof pieces are _not equilateral_. Just base four feet, height
four feet. Sorry!
El 18/08/2015 06:03, "Lucas González" <[email protected]>
escribió:

> Cardboard model. Or even paper model to start with. But definitely a
> cardboard model.
>
> Six walls, each 4' by 4', can be done as two strips, each made of three
> squares, first to second a tight hinge, second to third a loose hinge.
> These are 3 panels, each cut in half to give us three squares. As you say,
> no problem there.
>
> Six roof pieces, each an equilateral triangle with a base of 4', from two
> panels (each with four cuts) which give you three roof pieces each, plus a
> total of 4 "left over" "half roof-piece", right? I wonder if you'd want
> some of those half roof-pieces if there's need to do some folding.
>
> Model just the roof? Number the pieces: R1 to R6, plus abcd for the
> half-triangle leftover thingies. Try two different half-roofs, one using
> leftovers and one without? Post a picture or two. Allow us to use the
> picture in a wikipage which we'd call "folding six-foot" or whatever? This
> should help the next million, so thank you.
> El 18/08/2015 05:06, "Rachel Schwartz-Gilbert" <[email protected]>
> escribió:
>
>> Also, the danger method uses spaces that are 1/2 the width of the panels
>> for the loose hinges, I am wondering if one of my hinges need to be 1/2 the
>> width of a panel and the other needs to be a whole width of a panel? Then
>> they can fold on top of each other? I think that is how that should work...
>> but am still struggling a little bit with the concept of it all.
>>
>> On Monday, August 17, 2015 at 1:47:03 AM UTC-7, Rachel Schwartz-Gilbert
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I am trying to build the folding camp danger model for my yurt this year
>>> (first yurt building project here!) but all of the directions seem to be
>>> for much larger yurts than my 6' one.
>>>
>>> I can easily process the directions for the wall panels but am having a
>>> little bit of trouble conceptualizing how the roof panels will work. As of
>>> now, I have 6 triangles for the roof (3 per each side of the roof - as per
>>> the 6' directions)  but camp danger uses 12 smaller triangles (basically
>>> these 6 cut in half and stretched out). Can I just leave my three triangles
>>> per side instead of cutting them in half (and then tight sealing them)?
>>> Cutting them seems to benefit transport for the Danger technique but either
>>> way mine wont fold up like the bigger yurts so I don't see any real benefit
>>> in cutting the triangles in half. Basically, I am trying to figure out if
>>> my hinges will all be loose hinges pre-playa since the "tight hinges" would
>>> be if I cut my current triangles in half.
>>>
>>> I am hoping that question makes sense....
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance!
>>>
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