Howdy.

I've lurked around here for years - off and on.  So if this isn't news,
please don't flame. I  >DID< do searches on this group and povray.org and
they turned up nada.

I was researching using tensegrity structures for this pet project of mine
(might be real, might not ever get to that stage) and ran across a modeller
(in Java) for tensegrity structures (also known as 'Floating Compression'
structures) that outputs models for POV !!!

Cool stuff !!!

Check out:

  http://www.critpath.org/idioverse/springspace/

  http://www.beautifulcode.nl/struck

- Randy

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"Randy" <rha### [at] iquestnet> wrote in message
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> Howdy.
>

Howdy back

> I've lurked around here for years - off and on.  So if this isn't news,
> please don't flame. I  >DID< do searches on this group and povray.org and
> they turned up nada.

God, are we that scary? I mean apart from Thorsten?

>
> I was researching using tensegrity structures for this pet project of mine
> (might be real, might not ever get to that stage) and ran across a modeller
> (in Java) for tensegrity structures (also known as 'Floating Compression'
> structures) that outputs models for POV !!!
>

Looks nice. One for Ken's links? (or has he got it?).

Welcome again to the not really-very-scary groups. Ooo, look! Bunny rabbits!
Fluffy kittens! Sit down on the porch. Would you like some lemonade? - I made it
myself.

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Tensegrity models are really cool.  I built a few out of pen barrels and
paper clips.  They're really bouncy and fun to play with.

  http://outgrabe.hypermart.net/cam/set11/cam2.jpg
  http://outgrabe.hypermart.net/cam/set01/cam1.jpg

......And I made one in Pov to help me figure out how to build the real ones.
(unnecessarily large 1.7M Divx:)

  http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dtw/pov/misc/tensegrity.AVI

-David

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"Randy" <rha### [at] iquestnet> wrote in message
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> Howdy.

Howdy back.

>
>   http://www.critpath.org/idioverse/springspace/
>
Interesting stuff.

http://www.critpath.org/idioverse/springspace/snelspov.gif
"Struck + POV-Ray". Did one of them in Pov 2.1 but didn't know there
was "science" involved, never heard of this tensegrity thingy before
:/ It's still on Compuserve somewhere but here's my 3v5 version
http://www.peake42.freeserve.co.uk/pix1/stix3v5.jpg

Next time I play with it I _should_ know what I'm doing now ;)

Alf

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