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From: Francois Dispot
Subject: ANNOUNCE: gearmess available
Date: 8 Jun 2000 17:47:15
Message: <39401461.6231D232@club-internet.fr>
The generator used to make complicated tile-able gear messes is now
available, as promised. You will find it here:

http://www.wozzeck.net/images/gear-mess.html

Thanks to Serge for his tests and [win]dos binaries.
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From: Scott Hill
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: gearmess available
Date: 9 Jun 2000 10:04:16
Message: <3940f960@news.povray.org>
"Francois Dispot" <woz### [at] club-internetfr> wrote in message
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> The generator used to make complicated tile-able gear messes is now
> available, as promised. You will find it here:
>
> http://www.wozzeck.net/images/gear-mess.html
>

    Looks good - Haven't downloaded it yet, though.

    Just one question - Do they animate well ?

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From: Francois Dispot
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: gearmess available
Date: 9 Jun 2000 12:19:35
Message: <39411914.DEC9C310@club-internet.fr>
Scott Hill wrote:
> 
> "Francois Dispot" <woz### [at] club-internetfr> wrote in message
> news:39401461.6231D232@club-internet.fr...
> > The generator used to make complicated tile-able gear messes is now
> > available, as promised. You will find it here:
> >
> > http://www.wozzeck.net/images/gear-mess.html
> >
> 
>     Looks good - Haven't downloaded it yet, though.
> 
>     Just one question - Do they animate well ?

No. It wasn't the idea, and doing so makes it mandatory to keep the
product of all the radii ratios for each axis equal to one. And there
are other issues with animation periodicity if the anim is intended to
loop. IMHO all of these problems can be solved and this package can be a
good starting point: at least the gears are at the right place!

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From: Scott Hill
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: gearmess available
Date: 9 Jun 2000 13:22:06
Message: <394127be$2@news.povray.org>
"Francois Dispot" <woz### [at] club-internetfr> wrote in message
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> Scott Hill wrote:
> >
> > "Francois Dispot" <woz### [at] club-internetfr> wrote in message
> > news:39401461.6231D232@club-internet.fr...
> > > The generator used to make complicated tile-able gear messes is now
> > > available, as promised. You will find it here:
> > >
> > > http://www.wozzeck.net/images/gear-mess.html
> > >
> >
> >     Looks good - Haven't downloaded it yet, though.
> >
> >     Just one question - Do they animate well ?
>
> No. It wasn't the idea, and doing so makes it mandatory to keep the
> product of all the radii ratios for each axis equal to one. And there
> are other issues with animation periodicity if the anim is intended to
> loop.

    Darn.

> IMHO all of these problems can be solved and this package can be a
> good starting point: at least the gears are at the right place!
>

    Is everything I'd need to get it animatable in the download ? Like
source for the C code ? (sorry haven't got round to downloading it yet)

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Scott Hill. (sco### [at] innocentcom)
Software Engineer.
Author of Pandora's Box (coming to a web page soon(ish)).

*Everything in this post is IMO.*


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From: Francois Dispot
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: gearmess available
Date: 9 Jun 2000 16:16:49
Message: <394150A9.76E73561@club-internet.fr>
Scott Hill wrote:

>     Is everything I'd need to get it animatable in the download ? Like
> source for the C code ? (sorry haven't got round to downloading it yet)

Source code is GPL'ed (although I should make it clearer in the code
itself).
E-mail me if you want some ideas about how to animate it and the issues
this raises.

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From: Scott Hill
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: gearmess available
Date: 16 Jun 2000 12:12:03
Message: <394a51d3@news.povray.org>
"Francois Dispot" <woz### [at] club-internetfr> wrote in message
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> Scott Hill wrote:
>
> >     Is everything I'd need to get it animatable in the download ? Like
> > source for the C code ? (sorry haven't got round to downloading it yet)
>
> Source code is GPL'ed (although I should make it clearer in the code
> itself).
> E-mail me if you want some ideas about how to animate it and the issues
> this raises.
>

    OK, cool. I may well e-mail you if I get round to getting the download
(I've innumerable other projects 'on the go' atm).

--
Scott Hill. (sco### [at] innocentcom)
Software Engineer.
Author of Pandora's Box (coming to a web page soon(ish)).

*Everything in this post is IMO.*


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