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Re: Discussion-Large Technic Shock 2909c01.dat
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Sun, 23 May 1999 07:57:44 GMT
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On Sat, 22 May 1999 13:16:33 GMT, "John VanZwieten" <john_vanzwieten@msn.com>
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> In lugnet.cad.dev, Terry Keller writes:
> >
> > 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.
> > 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.
> >
> > 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
> >
> > Thanks, Manfred,
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> > -- Terry K --
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> "It's slinky, it's slinky, a wonder- wonderful toy . . ."
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> 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?
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> -John Van
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 --
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| (...) the (...) "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 (27 years ago, 22-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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