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Re: *** Start celebrating .... NOW
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Sat, 28 Dec 2002 12:00:49 GMT
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"Jennifer Clark" <jen@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> writes:

[...]  Another thing that I don't understand is how the elements in
the hose are not evenly distributed along its length.


This sounds like a shortcut in the algorithm.  If the bezier function
is f(t), it does not have the property that

    |f(t) - f(t+d)| = c

for all t, d given.  I've corrected for this in my algorithm by using
some simple optimization to find a reasonably smooth spacing of the
segment points.


Fredrik



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  Re: *** Start celebrating .... NOW
 
(...) If memory serves me well, in Fredrik's Ldraw mode you specified the endpoints in terms of orientation as well as coordinates, stated the number of joints and it calculated the rest. Certainly a good system for many instances as that (...) (22 years ago, 27-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)

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