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The art of meticulous disassembly (2011)
- mgdlbp 4y agoThe title reminded me at once of the Popular Mechanics column 'Things Come Apart'. This is in fact the same photographer! Something about how my mind made the connection gives a strong feeling of synchronicity. https://www.popularmechanics.com/things-come-apart/ https://www.popularmechanics.com/things-come-apart/
- vba616 4y agoI would like to find a really good guide on how, after taking things apart this thoroughly, to systematically organize, track, and reassemble them. I know people do successfully take apart vehicles to the last nut and bolt and restore and reassemble, but seems like a lot more give up part way.
- userbinator 4y agoTake lots of photos of the disassembly process. Even video, if possible.
- metadat 4y agoAlso use a sheet of cardboard: poke holes, stick in bolts, and write a label or note about what each belongs to.
- jonah 4y agoAnd lots of small, labeled ziploc baggies.
- vba616 4y agoThis is a thing I hadn't thought of. I've tried taking photos and bagging things, and it's not great because it doesn't preserve relative positions or angles that could be informational. Going back through the photos is a pain, and often I missed the right angle, or it was blurry. Also, it's hard to think of things to write on the labels that will make sense later. Much like commenting code. I feel like the best way to organize things is to arrange them on a large, light colored background, like an exploded diagram. But that takes up a lot of space, and can be easily disturbed and scrambled. A thing I thought of that nobody suggested is to use a piece of string (or perhaps a zip tie) to tie bolts and washers together, to preserve the ordering.
- mikewarot 4y agoI used to do that with 480 volt 3 phase SCR power packs, clean all the parts, replace the SCRs then reassembling them... all off of drawings I did as I disassembled them. This in the era before digital cameras and internet. Let's see those put back together, working. ;-)
- thenthenthen 4y agoThe term for the typical lay flat style of this type of photography is ‘knolling’ (could not find a decent source)
- gen_greyface 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sachs#Knolling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sachs#Knolling
- paskozdilar 4y agoThe title made me think this would be about reverse engineering obscurified executables. There's something very satisfying about the images in the article though.