<commit_before>---
layout: page
subheadline: Mythical Beast(s)
title:  "Unicorn (Dragon) Day Part 2"
teaser: "In which a dream is realized"
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tags:
    - wildcard
    - unicorn
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    - wildcard
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    thumb: unicorn/2018unicorn.jpg
    title: unicorn/2018unicorn.jpg
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# Vision

In a previous [post][1] I discussed Cornell's tradition of Dragon Day and how the physics department partook of the chance to join in the revelry and built unicorn floats. What I left out in that post was the vision behind each unicorn. Indeed, such a noble endeavor could not have been imputed to the world without the conviction granted by Vision. 

## 2014

As the reader may recall, the first unicorn in 2014 looked like this:

<figure>
<img src="{{ site.urlimg }}unicorn/2014unicorn3.jpg">
<figcaption>In the middle of the 2014 Dragon Day parade.</figcaption>
</figure>

The vision behind this majestic form was My Little Pony. The organizer of the first unicorn construction was possessed of the drive to not only make a mythical beast, but to make it (in the parlance contemporary of 2019-2020) extra. However, that first organizer graduated shortly thereafter and the responsibility for the continuation of the Unicorn was handed to me.

## 2015-2017

The unicorns of the next three years were all shadows of the true form of the vision that had seized me. That Vision was of a robot unicorn inspired by Adult Swim's Robot Unicorn Attack.

<figure>
<img src="{{ site.urlimg }}unicorn/2015unicorn1.jpg">
<figcaption> 2015 Unicorn </figcaption>
</figure>

<figure>
<img src="{{ site.urlimg }}unicorn/unicorn6.jpg">
<figcaption> 2016 Unicorn </figcaption>
</figure>

<figure>
<img src="{{ site.urlimg }}unicorn/2017unicorn.gif">
<figcaption> 2017 Unicorn </figcaption>
</figure>

As all attempts at the expression of the form of a thing inevitably are, the first three attempts were but the haziest of outlines. The construction of each, however, brought me inches closer to the form of the truth:

	* The 2015 Unicorns were a good test of the switch from chicken wire exoskeleton to wooden endo skeleton on a small scale. 

	* The 2016 Unicorn revealed the issues with scaling up in weight and size as well as gave us an idea of what would physically be possible to construct. 

	* The 2017 Unicorn revealed the increased time cost associated with a task of this mamoth undertaking and how to secure the appropriate regulatory approvals from building stakeholders.

# Piercing the Veil <commit_msg>typo fix2<commit_after>---
layout: page
subheadline: Mythical Beast(s)
title:  "Unicorn (Dragon) Day Part 2"
teaser: "In which a dream is realized"
breadcrumb: true
tags:
    - wildcard
    - unicorn
categories:
    - wildcard
image:
    thumb: unicorn/2018unicorn.jpg
    title: unicorn/2018unicorn.jpg
---

# Vision

In a previous [post][1] I discussed Cornell's tradition of Dragon Day and how the physics department partook of the chance to join in the revelry and built unicorn floats. What I left out in that post was the vision behind each unicorn. Indeed, such a noble endeavor could not have been imputed to the world without the conviction granted by Vision. 

## 2014

As the reader may recall, the first unicorn in 2014 looked like this:

<figure>
<img src="{{ site.urlimg }}unicorn/2014unicorn3.jpg">
<figcaption>In the middle of the 2014 Dragon Day parade.</figcaption>
</figure>

The vision behind this majestic form was My Little Pony. The organizer of the first unicorn construction was possessed of the drive to not only make a mythical beast, but to make it (in the parlance contemporary of 2019-2020) extra. However, that first organizer graduated shortly thereafter and the responsibility for the continuation of the Unicorn was handed to me.

## 2015-2017

The unicorns of the next three years were all shadows of the true form of the vision that had seized me. That Vision was of a robot unicorn inspired by Adult Swim's Robot Unicorn Attack.

<figure>
<img src="{{ site.urlimg }}unicorn/2015unicorn1.jpg">
<figcaption> 2015 Unicorn </figcaption>
</figure>

<figure>
<img src="{{ site.urlimg }}unicorn/unicorn6.jpg">
<figcaption> 2016 Unicorn </figcaption>
</figure>

<figure>
<img src="{{ site.urlimg }}unicorn/2017unicorn.gif">
<figcaption> 2017 Unicorn </figcaption>
</figure>

As all attempts at the expression of the form of a thing inevitably are, the first three attempts were but the haziest of outlines. The construction of each, however, brought me inches closer to the form of the truth:

- The 2015 Unicorns were a good test of the switch from chicken wire exoskeleton to wooden endo skeleton on a small scale. 

- The 2016 Unicorn revealed the issues with scaling up in weight and size as well as gave us an idea of what would physically be possible to construct. 

- The 2017 Unicorn revealed the increased time cost associated with a task of this mamoth undertaking and how to secure the appropriate regulatory approvals from building stakeholders.

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