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30 Jun 2024 04:08:50 EDT (-0400)
  Re: A tiny robot  
From: Meothuru
Date: 22 Mar 2007 00:50:01
Message: <web.460218a89f68450b305d2b50@news.povray.org>
Chambers <ben### [at] pacificwebguycom> wrote:
> Meothuru wrote:
> > simply an animated robot
>
> Can you 'program' it to reach arbitrary locations?  If so, I'd love to
> do a chess game run by these arms :)
>
> ...Chambers

I've  modified the scene a little bit.
So now it ist possible to control the  robot movements
by  an external control datafile(named: control.dat)
This is a simple ASCII-textfile

This allows you to render "free programable" robot
animations - based on this scene.

The robot control is IMO not very difficult, but if you want to
create animations with complexe movements, it gets
labour-intensive. Because  the parts of the movement
must be rendered "step-by-step"

The description of the control data-file structure, I wrote
as  a comment-text directly in the controldata-file "control.dat"
This  text can be deleted, modified etc.......the scene reads
only the first two lines of the "control.dat".

A restriction of this scene is, that the movement does not know
a "smooth start/stop-phase"  If you want to have this, you must
code it  yourself.


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