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Re: The Mutant Calamari
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 11 Dec 2001 05:29:30 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Mark Sandlin writes:
> > What if you combined your bendy arms with the new canopies?
It looks good. Although I haven't yet seen the new black sub parts that
would close up the sides. I find the new canopies are a little stunted
looking, so no matter what I think one needs to extend the middle area. The
angles of the new canopies' allow for regular and inverse low slope to be
used for the center module if one wishes to extend it.
In lugnet.general, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> Also: Are there 8 arms, or 10 (with two really long ones, tipped
> maybe by Dinosaurs flippers)?
10, including the the long ones -- please note that my arms actually copy
the approx. length and curvature of the TLC arms/segments, except that most
of the arms of my design are shorter (two segments of length) as would be
those of a real squid. The long arms are tipped in little claws (I am
unclear as to whether squids have some kind of claw-like tipped arms, or if
they are more like flippers). The first image I posted was intended to
suggest a movement of arms forward (and therefore away from the viewer), but
in any case here are some more views and the Dat file (although it is
comprised of other dat files also, so I am not sure how this works out for
others): http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/blueofnoon/calamari/
The TLC arms could never be tipped in either claws or flippers because the
tips of the arms use a non-standard connection method.
-- Hop-Frog
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| (...) You can also use 3x3 angle bricks to "space out" the shells, if need be! The big advantage, it seems, is in the ability to make "rounder" (or more octagonal?) flattened shapes. (...) Sure they could--they just couldn't be articulated *right* (...) (23 years ago, 11-Dec-01, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I'm in agreement here, really--you can close up the new "clamshell" pretty easily, with black 1x6 pieces available in the other $10 sub. I think that the "rounded" nature of the canopy would lend really well to the redesign of the arm section. (...) (23 years ago, 11-Dec-01, to lugnet.general)
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