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17 Aug 2024 00:17:40 EDT (-0400)
  Re: tire-bouchon  
From: Psychomech
Date: 6 Jan 2002 07:36:39
Message: <3C3844E3.F89E0A0E@home.com>
ok must be my screwed (forgive the pun) up perception....

JRG wrote:

> Psychomech wrote:
> > Great work!
>
> Thanks!
>
> >but one thing isn't the corckscrew part on backwards????   all the ones i
> > have had in the past had points at the end of the screw not where the screw meets
> with
> > the shaft.
>
> Mine begins very thin, quickly grows and then slowly gets thinner, but not as thin
as
> it is at the beginning. The problem here is that if I made the screw a bit thinner
it
> would look too 'fat' (it sounds like an oxymoron, but it's true: as I reduced the
> radius the screw looked more like a swirly candle). I played one hour with the
> parameters of f_helix2 and got unpredictable results. This is the best compromise I
> could get.
>
> --
> #local j=text{ttf"arial""JRG".2,0}#local J=0;#while(J<10)#local R=0;#while
> (R<2)#local G=0;#while(G<1)#if(inside(j<R,G.1>))object{j scale.025translate
> <R-1G-J/20J/-40+2>pigment{rgb<9J>}}#debug"O"#else#debug" "#end#local G=G+
> .025;#end#local R=R+.05;#debug"\n"#end#local J=J+1;#end// JRG
>
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