After cutting 300 or so pieces, we made a preliminary layout of our components. To be double-checky, we assembled a few panels. It was here that we discovered a minor oversight. Earlier in our exploration, we identified two triangles in parts of the pattern that actually joined and behaved as one. This was our first modification, we altered the order to include this larger triangle in place of the two small ones.
A hinge-width spacing throughout the pattern would create a scalar multiplier, not affecting the performance of the surface- this assumption was largely true. We neglected to enlarge that modified triangle by what would have been that constant, had it remained two small triangles. We made this discovery at around 1 am. See diagram.
We sulked for a few minutes.
We looked at each other the way people do when they find out that the male nurse they never liked anyway had convinced grandma to put him in the will.
We fixed it..................... hopefully.
The new piece can be seen next to the scale in the picture above our warp-speed repair shot.
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