"Reusser" <reu### [at] chorusnet> wrote in message
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>     Very sorry in advance for the sorenson 3 format, but I haven't got
> the mpg thing on a Mac down to a science yet...
>     Here's an animation using MechSim in MegaPov 1.0.  I've been having
> a great time fiddling around with it.  The topology alone uses up a
> couple hundred lines of text, but I like the result.  For a while, I
> thought the bridge would slowly stabalize and just sit there??like a
> bridge??but it's so much more interesting this way. :)  I guess I forgot
> to take into account the lateral stiffness and structure.  (I think it's
> because of rounding errors since it should be perfectly symmetrical over
> the z-axis.)  Oh well, as long as no one was on the bridge at the time.
>
> -Ricky
>

Well it's not quite Tacoma Narrows... but close :)

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