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Re: Universal Docking Ring ideas?
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lugnet.space
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Tue, 10 Apr 2001 08:58:13 GMT
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"William R. Ward" <hermit@bayview.com> wrote in message
news:m266gdvhyh.fsf@komodo.bayview.com...
> The benefit to gendered rings is that it is possible to dock in more
> positions. If all four of those mounting points are male or all
> female, then you have four orientations of the two ships to pick
> from. With ungendered rings, you have at most two orientations to
> choose from. With wings, tails, antennas, etc. on the various ships,
> you may not be able to dock in the available directions.
Depends on the configuration - imagine an octagon with technic pins at every
other corner on both ships, now you have 4 possible docking positions in a
unigendered ring. And if the ring could be made to rotate (with a loose
outer coupling, as LEGO don't make super thin rubber sheeting you'd have to
imagine that there was an airtight seal, or maybe use elastic bands) then
the orientations are limitless - although if you want to go the whole hog
and have a mechanism to rotate the ring you could be in for a very bulky
ring!
Dan
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| (...) The benefit to gendered rings is that it is possible to dock in more positions. If all four of those mounting points are male or all female, then you have four orientations of the two ships to pick from. With ungendered rings, you have at most (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.space)
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