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  Re: Import of measurement data (ASCII format) in animation  
From: Stephen
Date: 3 Mar 2016 05:54:41
Message: <56d817f1$1@news.povray.org>
On 3/2/2016 5:30 PM, Bald Eagle wrote:
> Stephen <mca### [at] aolcom> wrote:
>
>> Yes, only six points. Driving me mad trying to imagine it. Are the edges
>> fixed or free etc. :-)
>
> That would affect things, and produce a different visual effect, yes.
> I'm currently wondering if the vibrations are purely (co)sine waves and their
> harmonics, or if there's some catenary in there...
>
> Getting something smoothly interpolated might require functions and
> isosurfaces...   the ball-and-stick/string grid would be pretty cumbersome,
> although if you had a lot of splines that were defined using arrays... still
> pretty ugly.  I haven't had that much coffee yet, and I'm not sure how much free
> time I'd have to work all of that out...   :O
>
> We're almost getting into Finite Element Method territory here.   {shivers}
>
>

Damn you Moriarty! I an not going down that route. :-)

-- 

Regards
     Stephen


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