{"id":14808,"date":"2016-11-25T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T14:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14808"},"modified":"2016-11-25T02:14:40","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T07:14:40","slug":"car-designers-work-with-clay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/car-designers-work-with-clay\/","title":{"rendered":"Car Designers Work With Clay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/112516_0713_CarDesigner1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"346\" \/><\/p>\n<p>David K Gibson wrote about a surprisingly anachronistic practice in automobile design:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Before car designs are approved they are first modelled with clay.<\/li>\n<li>Clay has the advantage of allowing iterations \u2013 the design can be added to, removed from, or changed around at will.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s also collaborative. Multiple individuals can stand around and work on it.<\/li>\n<li>Each car company has its own proprietary blend of &#8220;clay&#8221; that it uses to make car designs.<\/li>\n<li>Ford, to take one example, goes through 100 tons of the material a year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the process of car design, and find out what happens to the clay models on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/autos\/story\/20161111-why-car-designers-stick-with-clay\">BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David K Gibson wrote about a surprisingly anachronistic practice in automobile design: Before car designs are approved they are first modelled with clay. Clay has the advantage of allowing iterations \u2013 the design can be added to, removed from, or changed around at will. It&#8217;s also collaborative. Multiple individuals can stand around and work on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/112516_0713_CarDesigner1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14808"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14811,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14808\/revisions\/14811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}