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Another test print of the head at 1:1 without eye lashes with a more neutral face expression... and a full body print in miniature 1:10

Finally have created all the mould parts needed for casting Aleyshas eye lashes, eyebrows, eyes left and right and upper and lower teeth and magnet capsules. 

No idea how this will turn out but still need to make a test socket for the teeth to test if my idea for attaching them to the skull actually works. 

Had a brief look at app.rarible.com today. The sign up and creation process was really easy so I made a non fungible token out of a painting of a Mario sprite I did a decade ago in Artrage. 

Also checked out Pixeos on the EOS blockchain... but the interface is ridiculous. Could not figure it out after 5 minutes so moved on. There are also a few more of these NFT art sites on Ethereum but they looked really dry and wanky and have complicated sign up sign up procedures so... I'll not spend any more time on this right now.

We recently rediscovered that shooting arrows with a bow is heaps of fun so we got a set of bows and arrows. One for us grown ups and one for the kids. However the kids bow came without a... thing that holds the arrow on the handle of the bow. So I ordered one. But that then came without a thing that attaches it to the handle of the bow... so I just measured the handle up and 3d printed one. Works perfectly now :).

Created a casting mould for the lower teeth today. Time to print it and put it to the test.

While I was thinking about how this thing would look when put together... I realized that I will need to separate the teeth from the skull so they can be a different color. Else we'll have either pink teeth or a white mouth interior or I'd need to paint them which I really don't want to do.

Not sure what the best way is to insert teeth into the skull frame so I'm going to make this my first attempt. Going to make silicone moulds for the teeth with some flaps on them and slits in the jaw of the skull where the flaps will slot in to keep the teeth in place.

Continuing to refine the shape of the underlying skull for cyberdoll. Also starting to really think about where to place the face attachment points. I'm sure this will need some revisions down the line once I actually start putting it together.

Tesla battery day certainly was interesting! The implications of what they have revealed are far reaching ;). However... it is making me rethink my plans for ordering a Tesla now. This news is causing a bit of an Osborne effect on me as it seems like this is really something that's worth patiently waiting for... also... I really don't need a new car right now... also... I don't actually have the money to order one lol. 

But on the plus side... Tesla stock is down today so perhaps I can afford to buy another share or two of the company while I wait. 

3d printed the eye socket section of the skull today to test if the silicone eyeball I cast before will fit. All seems to be in order.

I've just come across another amazing lecture by Wallace Thornhill on the future science in our electric universe. The more I hear about this new theory, the more I am convinced that this is not just another scientific theory but the key to a whole new age of scientific advancement and understanding. The beginning of a new chapter for the human race.

Lost count on how many times I've moved domains now... Could go back and check but that feels like time not well spent. Since this is becoming more of a generalized blog rather than a dedicated site to the development of cyberdoll... I've decided to rename it to mattslog.com. As in synonymous for log book... (not turd) just to clarify. I'll dedicate a page on here to the development of Aleysha and make files available for download there. 

Bought some 6x3 mm neodymium magnets because I'm planning to attach the silicone face to the skull using embedded magnets. So there will be magnets embedded in the skull and some embedded in the silicone of the face to keep everything in place.

Did not get much done today but I am anticipating mistakes with magnet orientation. So modeled and 3d printed a socket for one of the magnets and superglued it in there. Then used this reference magnet and a permanent marker to mark the same pole on all magnets. That should make it easier to keep track of the magnet orientation during the building process.  

Also made a mould for encasing a magnet in silicone. Will test that next.

Cusco in Peru has some curious polygonal masonry architecture. I am intrigued by these huge blocks of granite. They often weigh many tons each and no two blocks are exactly the same. They are irregular in shape and size yet they are joined together so perfect that not even a piece of paper would fit in between them and no mortar is needed to hold them in place. Some of them are arranged in neat rows yet others seem to have been roughly thrown together with little regard to surface finish or accuracy... accept for in the joints between them!

The rocks don't look like they were shaped with chisels and hammers... To me they look more like they have been soft and malleable at some point. Especially in areas where the walls have been damaged (image on the right) and the joint surfaces are exposed. The stones have a sort of "lip" on their edge where they would have joined up with other rocks. It looks as though they were soft like putty at the time of placement. Their weight would have squished them together and formed perfect joints between them. That would also explain the bulging pillow shape. Why would you go through the trouble of carving something like that with bronze tools as we are told the Inka supposedly did?

These megalithic granite walls are always the foundation underneath what looks like crude Inka construction and repairs on top. So they must be older. It looks more like the Inka did not build these structures but inherited them from an unknown civilization that was able to shape these stones in ways that we don't yet understand. It looks like the builders of these walls used this method of construction because it was the easiest method for them. The Inka used mortar and loose rocks and fragments of the megalithic buildings to fix and rebuild the structures they found. 

Above Cusco lies Sacsaywaman with even more impressive architecture. Here the megaliths that make up the walls can weigh up to 100 tons... yet they still have been assembled with perfect precision in the joints. It looks like the same construction method. I even see indentations in the surfaces of the rocks that - to me - look like someone prodded the rocks into place while they were still malleable. I would not even be surprised if this was not a long construction but rather something that was quickly thrown together for some purely practical purpose. 

Things start to become really curious when taking a closer look at the pyramids in Egypt. On the third pyramid of Giza there are some of the original granite casing stones left in place... and they exibit similar features as the walls found in Cusco!

On this wall it looks like the builders were capable of quickly putting stones into place that conform to what ever surface was underneath and then going over them to achieve a smooth surface finish on the outside as seen around the portal that leads inside the pyramid. The pillow shaped surfaces here are flattened as if someone went over them with a big rolling pin. How could this same type of construction exist in Egypt and Peru at a time where these two cultures supposedly did not yet know of each others existence?

Unfortunately the site has been quarried heavily over the past centuries and most of the original casing stones of the pyramids can now be found in the walls of buildings in Cairo but these casing stones that are still in their original place show the exact same method of construction as the ones found in Peru. Granite, perfect joints... and what are those curious nobs? 

So... perhaps who ever built these walls knew how to make a type of granite concrete? Probably not because there are more examples of granite being malleable in quarries.

This is the unfinished obelisk in the Aswan quarry in Egypt. It has an estimated weight of 1200 tons. It is still attached to the bedrock so it is a work in progress piece that can provide insights into how these things were actually cut out. 

Bronze and copper tools and chisels? It looks more like someone with an over sized ice cream scoop started scooping away at the granite as if it were butter. I think what's missing here is perspective. We try to explain what we observe with the certainty that previous civilizations were more primitive the further back in time we go. What if civilization was merely reset by a cataclysmic event such as the younger dryas period? And what if they had technologies for cutting and forming stone that differ vastly from the methods we use today? We try to explain what we see through the lens of our current understanding and state of technology. But could there be other paths of technological evolution that result in methods that don't rely on heavy machinery and mechanical leverage? Methods that are lost to us today?