Bees And Flowers

Here are a few shots of the bee installation.


When we designed our flowers, we made a computer file for the flowers, showing all the parts of each flower.  We used this file to "deconstruct" the flowers, arranging them to scale to fit as many pieces as we could on each 4' x 8' piece of aluminum.  These files are shown below.

This picture shows some of the flowers in the computer file.

Each color designates a separate piece of the flower.

This picture shows pieces of the flowers with the color removed. 

This is converted to an AutoCad file.  That file is used

to guide the laser cutter so that an accurate cut can be made. 

All the flower pieces fit into this one rather large box.  

Our next challenge was to arrange all the pieces into their respective flowers.

Some of the pieces in our driveway.

Some of the flowers already arranged.  Once we had the all the parts accounted for,
we marked and numbered the pieces.  Time to call in our project welder!