On 4/27/2017 8:13 PM, Bald Eagle wrote:
> Stephen <mca### [at] aolcom> wrote:
>
>> Hmm! an apple peeler. That sounds interesting. If you have a partially
>> peeled apple that would be more difficult. I would say.
>> Images? :)
>
> Indeed, but that would give me a good bit to think about   ;)
>
> I will post the current state of the WIP over in pbi.
>
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>>
>> Yes, that is nice. I would not mind having one of those at home. :D
>
> I will have to cajole and shame my friend to make one with the laser cutter...
>

I would if I could. :)

>> The image map I used for the rings was a cut down version of Bjorn
>> Jonsson's from when PovRay only had a maximum of 256 entries. That
>> limitation has been removed. So when I write the PovRay textures I'll
>> have better textures. His planet textures have more detail.
>
> Yes, those were the ones I was thinking of.
>
>
It took me a while to find it again.

>> The planetary gears are true involutes but they are a lot of work so for
>> speed the others are simple, for the moment.
>
> They are a lot of work to get set up initially - it took me forever to get them
> figured out, coded, and converted to SVG to test on the laser cutter.
>
>

Have a look at this site. I know it's for Blender but there are 
calculators to help with the equations.
http://www.otvinta.com/index.html



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Regards
     Stephen

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