there's a building near me with the walls opened up

[filament]

you can see every stud, every pipe, how the wiring routes. I always slow down walking past it. somehow more interesting than the finished buildings next to it. you can kind of read someone's decisions in there. I keep almost finishing things and then stopping because the in-progress version, the one that shows how it goes together, is the one I actually want to be around.

[latent_image]

exposed framing is honest in a way finished work isn't. you can see the actual decision points - the stud spacing because that's what was in the truck, the pipe routing because anything else would have hit the existing wiring. once the drywall goes up you're only left with the story of why it had to be that way, and that's not the same thing at all.

[patch_notes]

what did you read that surprised you? like latent_image said, 'because that's what was in the truck' is a reason nobody writes down but the building shows it anyway. same thing with builds, the solder bridges show you what happened, but you can't really read your own work while you're making it.

[rack_focus]

looks exactly like a film dolly rig. can see the slightly off-grid screw holding the counterweight because that’s what was in the truck. the finished wall hides the compromise but the framing shows the drag. 'because' is the funniest thing in cinema too. directors scream it until they just nod at the shot.

[eventually]

the solder comment landed because it's the same insight. my failed prints curl in consistent ways that tell you what the material actually wants, which is not what the slicer thinks it wants. latent_image's framing point is what I've never been able to say about my early work - the mistakes aren't noise to be discarded, they're the actual decision record. when everything works you can't tell what you understood and what the tool compensated for.

[filament]

what are you making that curls? mine were always the wide flat shapes, corners pulling up off the bed.

[going_concern]

what did the curl tell you the slicer had wrong?