Op 08/09/2019 om 02:46 schreef Ton:
> Thanks for the compliments, it's pure motivation.
> 
> Mr. Eagle, I might do a work-in-progress sequence for the next coach, to give an
> indication of my "work-flow", my muddling and struggling through the molasses of
> Povray to get a decent picture!
> 
> Meneer de Groot, I've attached a picture with the TEE and Mat54 for your
> information. They are quite different.
> 
> I've searched in these forums for orreries, and found out that I am not the
> first one. I'll probably won't be the last one....
> 
> For now I'm playing around with textures for my orrery base, and creating the
> planets. I feel a bit like Slartibartfast......
> 
> Cheers
> Ton
> 

I stand corrected. :-)

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Thomas

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Hi(gh)!

On 08.09.19 02:46, Ton wrote:
> Thanks for the compliments, it's pure motivation.
> 
> Mr. Eagle, I might do a work-in-progress sequence for the next coach, to give an
> indication of my "work-flow", my muddling and struggling through the molasses of
> Povray to get a decent picture!
> 
> Meneer de Groot, I've attached a picture with the TEE and Mat54 for your
> information. They are quite different.
> 
> I've searched in these forums for orreries, and found out that I am not the
> first one. I'll probably won't be the last one....
> 
> For now I'm playing around with textures for my orrery base, and creating the
> planets. I feel a bit like Slartibartfast......

...just wait until I come up with my long-cherished railway project: the 
10,000-Millimeter Ultra Wide Gauge Railway! Monstrous locomotives 
powered by on-board nuclear fusion reactors, 200 meters long and 30 
meters high, six- and eight-storey passenger cars, true rolling cities 
equipped with all facilities of stationary cities, trains up 20 kms 
long, so long that on board these trains a standard-gauge 
"train-on-train" runs, transporting passengers to destinations within 
the train!

But before I even think about starting this project, I will have to do 
MUCH technical research...

And then building a world-wide 10,000-mm track network, including a 
Gibraltar and Bering Strait tunnel... yes, even Hitler's famous-infamous 
"Breitspurbahn" (only 3,000-mm gauge, how pathetic!) would be dwarfed to 
a mere toy beside my railway system!

See you in Khyberspace!

Yadgar

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>
> ...just wait until I come up with my long-cherished railway project: the
> 10,000-Millimeter Ultra Wide Gauge Railway! Monstrous locomotives
> powered by on-board nuclear fusion reactors, 200 meters long and 30
> meters high, six- and eight-storey passenger cars, true rolling cities
> equipped with all facilities of stationary cities, trains up 20 kms
> long, so long that on board these trains a standard-gauge
> "train-on-train" runs, transporting passengers to destinations within
> the train!
>
> But before I even think about starting this project, I will have to do
> MUCH technical research...
>
> And then building a world-wide 10,000-mm track network, including a
> Gibraltar and Bering Strait tunnel... yes, even Hitler's famous-infamous
> "Breitspurbahn" (only 3,000-mm gauge, how pathetic!) would be dwarfed to
> a mere toy beside my railway system!
>
> See you in Khyberspace!
>
> Yadgar

Cool! So we don't need planes anymore?

Cheers
Ton.

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Hi(gh)!

On 09.09.19 01:51, Ton wrote:

> Cool! So we don't need planes anymore?

Not only no planes (the trains would run at 300 kph), but even no cities 
anymore! Snowpiercer de luxe!

And then imagine me as the bio-cybernetically immortalized World Emperor 
who resides on his own private train, long-haired, bearded and crowned 
with a living Eurasian lynx (Tristan, my genetically engineered 
co-regent)...

(yes, I'm a habitual Civilization player...)

See you in Khyberspace!

Yadgar

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I had a look at the Lohmullers website once again, and noticed their multiple
view pov-file.
I adapted it for a nice view of my Edelweiss.
Where would Povland be without the Lohmullers?

Cheers
Ton.

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Op 11/10/2019 om 08:37 schreef Ton:
> I had a look at the Lohmullers website once again, and noticed their multiple
> view pov-file.
> I adapted it for a nice view of my Edelweiss.
> Where would Povland be without the Lohmullers?
> 

Absolutely! Thanks for that reminder. I do not visit that site often enough.

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Thomas

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"Ton" <ton### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> I had a look at the Lohmullers website once again, and noticed their multiple
> view pov-file.
> I adapted it for a nice view of my Edelweiss.
> Where would Povland be without the Lohmullers?

I have a question about that locomotive: how does it navigate curved tracks with
3-axle carriages?

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On 10/11/19 1:16 PM, Cousin Ricky wrote:
> "Ton" <ton### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> I had a look at the Lohmullers website once again, and noticed their multiple
>> view pov-file.
>> I adapted it for a nice view of my Edelweiss.
>> Where would Povland be without the Lohmullers?
> 
> I have a question about that locomotive: how does it navigate curved tracks with
> 3-axle carriages?
> 
> 

The axles and wheels move laterally in the carriage (carriage == truck 
in America).

Still, the tracks take a beating on curves.

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Dick Balaska <dic### [at] buckosoftcom> wrote:
> On 10/11/19 1:16 PM, Cousin Ricky wrote:

> > I have a question about that locomotive: how does it navigate curved tracks with
> > 3-axle carriages?


Also submitted for your enjoyment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7h4OtFDnYE

There's also a similar, somewhat counter-intuitive principle that takes place
with belt-driven devices, making it necessary for those wheels to be convex,
rather than concave like a pulley.

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"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> Dick Balaska <dic### [at] buckosoftcom> wrote:
> > On 10/11/19 1:16 PM, Cousin Ricky wrote:
>
> > > I have a question about that locomotive: how does it navigate curved tracks with
> > > 3-axle carriages?
>
>
> Also submitted for your enjoyment:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7h4OtFDnYE
>
> There's also a similar, somewhat counter-intuitive principle that takes place
> with belt-driven devices, making it necessary for those wheels to be convex,
> rather than concave like a pulley.

Another enjoying movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkzgcJGdUnA

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