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Chair made of drinking straws

Scott Jarvie made this Clutch Chair using more than 10,000 drinking straws. This one is apparently a non-functional art piece, however it seems like one should be able to make a usable chair with the same materials.

Anyone know how to form a curved surface using only straight segments of straw? My best guess is that you could use half-length straws as a wedge to form the curves. [via neatorama]

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Posted by: Doug McCaughan on October 30, 2009 at 12:28 PM

Different geometries with non-perpendicular straws

If the straws were all perpendicular the curve would be impossible. By rotating an adjacent straw, like an X, and changing the "height" of the straw, different geometries can be created.

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Posted by: Matt Mets on October 30, 2009 at 1:51 PM

I'm with you until the X part, wouldn't they be more like a V? I'm getting the feeling that it was much harder to construct than it looks.

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Posted by: Gir on October 31, 2009 at 2:32 AM

Stretched possibly?

It wouldn't be hard to make a long cone form to stretch one end of the straws. That's how I would have done it, had I any artistic ability or dedication. ;)

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Posted by: jatt on November 2, 2009 at 8:41 AM

Neat

This chair sucks :p

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Posted by: Anonymous on November 5, 2009 at 2:53 PM

>> Believe it or not, curved surfaces can be made from straight lines... see Wikipedia for "Ruled surface".

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