{"id":29126,"date":"2025-09-18T06:11:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T06:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/29126\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T06:11:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T06:11:21","slug":"a-3d-printed-model-that-mimics-the-fixed-point-remote-center-of-rotation-of-a-chickens-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/29126\/","title":{"rendered":"A 3D Printed Model That Mimics the Fixed Point Remote Center of Rotation of a Chicken&#8217;s Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/therealactionlab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener external nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">James<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/?s=The+Action+Lab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener external nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">The Action Lab<\/a> recruited his chicken Bella to show how her head remained  fixed on a single point despite her body being gently moved around in James\u2019 hands. This is a concept known as the \u201cremote center of rotation\u201d.  To demonstrate this phenomenon,  James built a flexible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thingiverse.com\/thing:4841850#google_vignette\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener nofollow\">3D printed model <\/a>that mimicked Bella\u2019s fixed stare.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the first fully 3D compliant mechanisms. It can hold  single point fixed in space. But chickens have been doing this naturally with their heads all along. So I wante to see how this mechanism works. And how do chickens pull this off as well?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated Posts\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James\u00a0of\u00a0The Action Lab recruited his chicken Bella to show how her head remained fixed on a single point&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-29126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}