Unfortunately I had a tighter budget and was forced to use rubber tubing
instead of liquid metal.  Your solution looks much neater and is less likely
to get snagged on passing objects.

I will see if the patron wants to spring for a retrofit.  How much does
state-of-the-art, next-generation, memoryform shape-changing liquid metal
cost?


"Mark Hanford" <ren### [at] blueyondercouk> wrote in message
news:3c690c7b$1@news.povray.org...
> Thanks - It certainly is an opposable thumb, in fact all the fingers can
be
> wiggled around, you never know when you might need to greet a Vulcan...
>
> Length conservation is still handled in a bodge-it'n'leg-it fashion, I'm
> planning to just stretch the control points a bit depending on the angle
of
> the bend.  (At the moment, it does nothing, as you can see from the
image -
> no loops)
>
> Do to my unlimited materials budget building this robot, I have used
> state-of-the-art, next-generation, memoryform shape-changing liquid metal.
> That's probably how it will stay until I get hold of some old-fashioned
wire
> to make the fingers go...
>
> (btw, That link to rocketmg is stale...)
>
> Mark Hanford
> http://www.mrhanford.com/povray
>
>
> "Grey Knight" <s16### [at] namtarqubacuk> wrote in message
> news:3C690852.42A6F04B@namtar.qub.ac.uk...
> > Is that an opposable thumb I can see? What about length conservation on
> > your spline-wires, is that sorted? If you can adapt the string code at
> > http://www.esite-host.com/~rocketmg/ for use in animations, it might be
> > helpful (some of the cloth animators in p.b.a can probably help you with
> > this, since cloths are 2D analogues of strings...)
> > I look forward to your completed scene, hopefully with more robot
> > bits...
> >
> > Mark Hanford wrote:
> > >
> > > Here is an update on the robot hand that I started a while ago...
> > >
> > > I've changed the way the palm is modelled, and added some bits from my
> > > electronics.inc
> > >
> > > Having put the model inside a "real" scene (my shed, see web), the
> textures
> > > have really improved, although they are still extremely basic
> > > pigments-with-a-bit-of-reflection.
> > >
> > > I've just noticed that a couple of the objects are floating a bit, and
> the
> > > heel of the hand needs to come down, but anyway...
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > Mark Hanford
> > > http://www.mrhanford.com/povray
> > >
> > >  [Image]
> >
> > --
> > signature{
> >   "Grey Knight" contact{ email "gre### [at] yahoocom" }
> >   site_of_week{ url "http://digilander.iol.it/jrgpov" }
> > }
>
>

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