What’s the opposite of a parametric design?
Royal Mail Postage size guide by Solexious
Answer: A standardized uniform design!
In a world where even atomic weights are not necessarily constant, the uniform standardization from the postal service is somewhat comforting.12 Thingiverse citizen Solexious has uploaded a copy of the size template found in UK post offices.
What I like about this Thing is that rather than providing us with a mercurial changeable thing3 , Solexious has provided us with the Platonic ideal – a perfect digital rendering of a physical metric for comparing other physical things.45 As long as you have access to a standard “Thing” you could always compare your own objects against the standard. Now you can know before you leave your house what postage you need to affix. 6
If you could have a standardized object in your home or office, what would it be? How would it help you?
- Thanks slashdot! [↩]
- I try to be educational and entertaining! [↩]
- Something that would have made Hericlitus proud. [↩]
- Mom! Dad! I finally used my philosophy degree!!! [↩]
- “Yes, son, that makes us very proud. Now, why can’t you be a nice doctor like your brother?” [↩]
- You could probably also print this out on paper for extra portability and use a laser printer instead of a laser cutter. [↩]
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fedega
actually,,recent design theory establishes that ´standardized uniform´ design is just a specific instance of a parametric one. Apparently fixed forms are nothing but a low-complexity, invariable, static & insensible moment in a parametric field of infinite possibilities.
sorry for my bad english—