Does an architectural object have personality?

While verifying the code for the desktop art sculpture, I noticed that the tiny dancers/aechitectural components seemed to have personalities of their own.

For instance, take a look at this first one.  It’s a Rorschach test of its own:
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The dancing mannequin has/is what? Climbed a set of stairs like an athletic Fred Astaire tap dancing in a top hat and tails? A social climber? A dreamer reaching for the stars? An astronaut on Mars constructing a new habitation module?

And what about this one?

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Is the mannequin feeding the artificial flower or the other way around?

And the third example…

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A dancing stage or a launch platform?

The fourth is even less obvious:

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Half-built skyscraper or coloured tongue depressors glued together in a preschool class?

And, finally, the last example:

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Is this a miniature version of sculpture in a metropolitan museum or the model for an upcoming music video production?

It is a robot decinstructed into its components as art — let your imagination run away with the interpretation!

Designing the interactive artwork

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Well, with two days to go, the robot hacks team is down to conpleting the final pieces on top of the interactive artwork — no pressure!

We wanted to have some influence from historical modern architecture so off to the library we went.

Here are some images that will influence tonight’s design:

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And I shall try to avoid artwork with premonitions builtin!

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Of course, there’s current/contemporary architecture to consider, too.  Maybe in a separate blog post.