It took over six hundred parts to help make this kinetic structure by Derek Hugger move the way it does, and the way it does it moves is just like a sea turtle. Here’s more from COLOSSAL
“A non-trivial amount of time was spent watching and studying videos of turtles swimming,” explains [Derek Hugger]. “Getting the motions of Carapace to closely resemble the motions of real turtles was a true challenge. Countless hours were spent refining the sculpture’s motion to be as lifelike as possible, even before any mechanisms were developed to drive those motions.”
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