the interim post-mortem

What I emptied out from my brain post-crit while I was still reeling with adrenaline:

"What can you do with Maya that you can't do with the physical model?" - Julie Eizenberg

For starters, we can first try simulating the deformation without the stitching of the cloth to a boundary.

One of the constraints that was problematic for us in the making of the physical model was that we felt the need to stitch it's edges to a frame. We were striving to break away from a conventional minimal surface model, and yet we ended up settling for and conforming with the "traditional" set-up.

Now that we can use Maya to further our investigations, perhaps it would be worthwhile to explore the possibilities of a tension net structure:-

1) with or without a perimeter framing
2) types of frames; and,
3) comparing the results regardless of whether we get to an eventual result that we can predict will be useful to us or not.

Better to have a tested experiment that has failed us than a neglected unexperimented hypothesis, no matter what it is still will be a worthy outcome.