Reusser wrote:
>     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.

excellent stuff - lets just hope thats not fixed in a furture mechsim, can
you imagine the hassle of trying to model a bridge that did that


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