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Re: Onion Dome (part 44511) from Orient Expedition sets
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lugnet.cad.dat.parts
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Sun, 16 May 2004 23:04:13 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, William Howard wrote:
> > > The fact that the resulting shape is not half of a circle is largely
> > > irrelevant IMHO.
> > I would disagree, it is in fact highly relevant. If I take an idealised onion
> > dome and divide it in half, I do not get this part.
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> According to my book on Russia and the Winter Palace, there is no such
> thing as a standard onion dome,
I said idealised, not standard.
> they squashed them to fit as necessary.
I am sure they did. But they didn't make things that had figure eight cross
sections much of the way up, if I am not much mistaken.
> > Compare to the panel quarter cylinder. That actually IS 1/4 of
> something.
> Agreed. It is a quarter of what you get if you put 4 of them together,
It is more than that, it is a quarter of a *cylinder*, a geometric figure, not
just some random shape that has no analogue in real life, like this one is.
> Your arguement is flawed by assuming that domes are circular, or even
> elliptic. They are not.
I mean in cross section horizontally, Please provide a cite for a dome that is,
in cross section horizontally, a squashed figure 8.
> OK, so what would you call it that enables a user to locate the part?
Partial (as I said before)
> And I still need to know the Category for it
Panel or Roof
>
> William
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