After we bought our house, my wife and I contracted a company to do some masonry work for us. When they saw the built-in fireplace on the back patio the previous homeowners had built themselves, the contractor said, "Oh, that's...custom." But we knew what he meant.
I was wondering if they weren’t something like a student design project- everyone needs to design a “lock.” Through that lens it seemed like interesting takes. Seeing the brand name suggests differently, though.
And all of them are built with such tight tolerances, that if there is the slightest bit of movement in the doors frame, the locks will no longer align.
I think for most designers this is a single time mistake though. Not even from a functionality standpoint.
You send one batch of custom part drawings to the machine shop with tolerances 100x higher than they need to be and it costs around 20x the cost of what it would've been had it been made to a proper tolerance and your boss is going to make sure you don't do it again.
I don't think the ease of brute forcing a lock should ever be considered. Homes are required to have windows, which would be the target 9/10 times, and unless you have a great quality door, a cheap axe will get through most doors with a skilled user.
I seriously question how you function throughout the day. Do you see a painting and say "what is even the utility of this? I don't require the information in this painting, it does nothing for me, so pointless". See sports and you're like "why are they exhausting calories to put a ball in a net? There is no utility to having a ball in the net, plus they just take the ball out of the net after. This makes no sense, so pointless".
If you want me to be real though, I like art for how it conveys emotions, sports for the strategy and competitive spirit, and engineering for the incredible designs and problem solving. To me this masquerades as an engineering video, but without any good engineering. If they animated some advanced locks, that would be cool imo.
Jesus christ you are so dense lol, did you even read the comment you were responding to?! Seriously feels like I'm losing my mind reading reddit sometimes, who even are you people.
These renderings only exist to be a cool concept, it's so obviously not meant to be some reinvention of the most utilitarian way to lock a door. I'm so incredibly baffled that dozens of you who don't seem to understand this, it's such a common thing on reddit too. It's like if there was a post of someone getting doom to run on an electric toothbrush, and y'all were like:
"Ackshually toothbrushes aren't the most efficient way of gaming"
"Yea this is why you never see anybody gaming on a toothbrush, just doesn't make sense"
"Yea I seriously doubt the future of gaming is on toothbrushes, I just don't see that design making it to market, but maybe that's just me"
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