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Re: Ziggurat: a floating-arm trebuchet
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lugnet.technic
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Wed, 5 Nov 2003 05:11:13 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Adrian Drake wrote:
> In lugnet.announce.moc, Tim Rueger wrote:
> > Folks,
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> > For the recent TexLUG medieval siege weapon
> > contest, I constructed a floating-arm
> > trebuchet.
[...]
> That's very cool and nicely explained, but jeezopeetes those images were HUGE!
I suppose, since I got the cable modem, I'm
less sensitive to low-bandwidth users than I
was when I had dialup. I didn't want to
shrink the pictures too much, or the text
would be too small to read.
> I'd love to see a movie of it being fired. I'm sure it's an impressive sight.
>
> Adrian
There is a small movie of one of my contest
launches on the TexLUG site (see link above),
but it's a short-distance accuracy shot.
It *is* tough to visualize a floating-arm
trebuchet launch; the action is not at
all obvious from the structure. There are
links in the "notes.txt" file on Brickshelf
that lead to other FAT launch videos.
Ziggurat's arm action is hard to see,
since the side walls are solid. Chris
MacDougal suggested rebuilding it with
windows within the walls to see how the
launch arm moves; I'll have to consider
that if I build Ziggurat II.
-Tim
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