"Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> schreef in bericht
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> As an aside to playing with knots, I've also been experimenting with
objects
> constructed from bricks - specifically, perturbing the bricks based on
> their location.
>
> The two examples here are based on the bricks' distance from a line. The
> closer a brick is to the line, the more pronounced its displacement in the
> direction of the line (more precisely, within a cone aligned with the
> line). The displacement drops off with distance d from the line as
exp(-d).
>
> The cannonball just puts the whole exercise into context. Fun, isn't it? I
> could spend a whole evening carefully building brick structures in POV and
> then blowing holes in them! Plenty of scope for variations, too - could
> make things explode from a point, fall apart across a plane, be sucked
into
> a black hole...
>
> Bill
>
Just fascinating! Very smart!

Thomas

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