Mechanical Iris Still Shots

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For those of you coming to see this due to the recent daily deviation award, make sure to check out the animated version!

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This idea has been floating around in the back of my head for a while now, mostly due to the iris from Stargate SG1. I did a little research and found this amazing video of one controlling a garage, I knew I had to have one.

I did my best to model my own using AutoCAD (hooray for the "array" command!) and a good dose of experimentation with cardboard to test and re-test the parts (I would have included a few pictures of the demo for comparison, but with all the modifications I had to make, it was just plain ugly).

It's made entirely of paper with the exception of the wooden dowels for axes. It comes to 15" (38cm) wide X 19" (48cm) high X 1.5" (3.5cm) thick, while the middle aperture has a diameter of 5.75" (14.6cm). Additionally, all pieces are identical (and thus interchangeable).




Still Shots

Animated - Vanilla

Animated - Fun Time

Animated - Stargate [Hi-Res]

PDF of Pieces

PePaKuRa (PDO) Files

Mechanical Iris Guide

Wall-Mounted










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Have you built this or one of my other models? Feel free to let me know how hard you thought they were!