When I see a phrase like that I feel sad that someone didn't get you into design or engineering school.
It's clear that you mentally see what you want in vivid detail. It's called "spatial intelligence" and cannot be taught. You are born with all you will ever get. The stronger you can visualize shapes and space the easier design is for you.
The military even tests for it and a high score is mandatory for combat pilots and certain technical trades.
But for all that potential talent it sits almost useless unless it is give good math and design training.
Many folks never use that potential talent because the civilian school system doesn't bother trying to identifying it in children. It should be identified early and the students given special attention to help boost their math skills. None of this "I'm not good at math" permissiveness that is so common in schools. I'm not in favor of letting kids quit on math anyway, but for these special children there is no excuse at all for letting the kids throw away a rare talent because it doesn't have the right complimentary tools.
Thank you. My interests ran to the biological sciences.
I didn't 'quit' in math -- though I found calculas in College 'difficult, but Statistics less so. Being female born when I was [1956] math wasn't pushed on me, so it was extremely easy during high school even though I always took a course even if not required. A dear teacher [I had him multiple times, had to have been a saint. He didn't know what to do with me. So he would just do like all the teachers [math or most anything else] since 1st grade -- have me 'help' the semi-helpless. [Being elective classes, I no longer had to help the helpless.] He once said in one of his communicative frustrated points -- about some theorems I had done -- 'You think sideways'. Which I already knew.
My brain does work differently -- somewhere in Kindergarten I figured others 'thought' differently. A German teacher 'noticed' the main area of difference and sent me off to be tested. I am a type of dyslexic with some aphesisa -- all related to the audio imput.
Thus I know the words 'dohingiess' or 'thingamabob' if I learned it audioly I have extreme difficulty expressing it written form. And often have verbal word blindness.
I learned computer programming back when it was with punch cards! Did that sideways too.
Anyway -- maternal grandfather was a master brick layer and house builder. And his father was an engineer. Father was an engineer and in artillery [could read maps, including topographical before I could read].
For amusement now I make my own house plans [and actually am working out a large cylinder space station....].
I can think without words, sounds or even pictures -- if you can get that -- all at once or in variations. In fact, I read without sounds.
Anyway, back to the original post.
I have contemplated the tarp method of water gathering -- as in we have so many dry months here in FLA. Not for rain but for dew. We can have a easy month with no rain, but soaking wet dew mornings.
The 'normal' dew gathering method is using a tarp posted out horizontally [essentially] with a weight dipping the middle down -- best with a hole to drip into a bucket. Here in FLA you'd get dew gathering on both sides of the tarp.
But you can get leaves and bird stuff and so on.
I've contemplated [only mildly fiddled with] a vertical tarp. Not with the 'edge' horizontal with the ground, but one of the corners.
Run a line and pull the 'high' corner up. Water will run down straight into one bucket [you'd need to tie the bottom corner of the tarp so it doesn't shift in any night winds -- to the bucket would be the easiest, and most of the times there aren't high winds to dump over the bucket].
To maximize your dew water gathering you'd need to then tie off the other two corners high off so you'd see a Kite shape of some sort.
Those other two corners do need to be 'tilted up some' so that there isn't dripping from them.
Galvanized corrugated metal hanging will work fine too [been there, done that, nuisance to collect the water]. Ditto with a piece of corrugated plastic roofing.
You do need to firmly fix metal or plastic corrugated because they will turn in any breeze and you loose dew.
I have thought of attaching a piece of either corrugated item to a fence, sort of horizontally with a good slope, so everything will drip at one end to catch. Never done it. You would only lose a little dew where the ridges touch the fence.
