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| | | From Bram's pov file: #declare r_w=2800; // width of river heightfield #declare r_b=80; // height of river bank #declare r_d=240; // depth of river I'm not sure if 2800 is the width of the water or of the river+banks, but I imagine Bram could clue (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | Re: Datsville Update —Steve Bliss
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| | | | (...) Yeouch! Are those LDU's? The river's over 4 baseplates wide! Must be the Mississippi. Maybe I'll have to rethink this as a suspension bridge. Good thing it's not downtown, or there wouldn't *be* a downtown. (...) What about r_d? Is 240 the (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | Re: Datsville Update —John VanZwieten
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| | | | (...) Hmm. I may have to mess with that a bit. I want to go with something more like 30 studs across. Have you seen the new bridge they're building in London? It was in a recent edition of Popular Science. The deck of the bridge curves out over the (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | Re: Datsville Update —Christian Holtje
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| | | | | (...) Do you have the name of the bridge and some ather things so I can do a search on the web? PopSci.com mentions the article, but doesn't have it online. The article summary said it opened like an eye. Ciao! (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | Re: Datsville Update —John VanZwieten
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| | | | | | (...) water, (...) bridge (...) The Baltic Millennium Bridge over the Tyne River b/w Gateshead and Newcastle in N.E. England. -John Van (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | Bridges! (Was: Re: Datsville Update) —Christian Holtje
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| | | | | | (...) Thanks, John. Amazing looking bridge. Here is the URL from the architects themselves (puny picture, but what a concept!) (URL) Any given program, when running, is obsolete. The Doctor What: Second Baseman (URL) (finger docwhat@gerf.org for PGP (...) (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | Re: Datsville Update —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | (...) How about 32 studs, bank-to-bank? (...) I had not seen that. Sounds awesome. Steve (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | Re: Datsville Update —Ryan Dennett
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| | | | (...) the (...) more (...) I would do at least 60 studs across(I mean that's only two town blocks). And, John, would you seriously consider naming it the River Kwai, please. (...) recent (...) water, (...) bridge (...) degrees (...) I seem to (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad)
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