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Re: Discussion-Large Technic Shock 2909c01.dat
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Sat, 22 May 1999 13:16:33 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Terry Keller writes:
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> Cool. OK, doing a 640x480 rendering now....
> While we're all virtually waiting, I'd like to know how long it took you to
> create the dat file, and your assesment of the difficulty of doing so.
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> It does look pretty good in LDlite, which is a plus.
> OK, done. First, I must say that the uncompressed spring shows some obvious
> imperfections. The coils are noticeably "V" shaped on the outer side. And • the
> tight section at the bottom appears as multiple flat faces. <sigh>
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> The compressed version looks about the way I would expect. Not terrible, but
> the cross-section limitations seen in the uncompressed version are aggravated
> by the the scaling. Makes the coil appear very flat.
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> Now, tossing this up to a temp directory on Hugin.... (semi-real time
> operations - what fun!)
> tick... tick.... ding!
> http://hugin.ldraw.org/JJ_Memorial/hose/coils-test.jpg
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> Thanks, Manfred,
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> -- Terry K --
"It's slinky, it's slinky, a wonder- wonderful toy . . ."
What we need is a torus primitive for this which L3P can subsitute. Terry,
have you done any POVs of the whole assembly at a smaller scale?
-John Van
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| (...) No, just the one-shot deal. Of course, it may look better at a smaller scale. Then again, it may look worse. I would do it right now, but I can barely keep my eyes open, and I promised myself "email and lugnet only, then to sleep". -- Terry K (...) (25 years ago, 23-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Discussion-Large Technic Shock 2909c01.dat
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| (...) Cool. OK, doing a 640x480 rendering now.... While we're all virtually waiting, I'd like to know how long it took you to create the dat file, and your assesment of the difficulty of doing so. It does look pretty good in LDlite, which is a plus. (...) (25 years ago, 22-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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