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From: Reusser
Subject: Suspension Bridge (Sorenson 3)
Date: 10 Jan 2003 21:14:09
Message: <3E1F7C43.A714ADED@chorus.net>
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


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From: Reusser
Subject: Re: Suspension Bridge (Sorenson 3)
Date: 10 Jan 2003 21:46:08
Message: <3E1F845E.7B971067@chorus.net>
That's odd, my --'s seemed to have shown up as ??'s.  Whoops.

- Ricky


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From: Greg M  Johnson
Subject: Re: Suspension Bridge (Sorenson 3)
Date: 10 Jan 2003 22:29:19
Message: <3e1f8f8f$1@news.povray.org>
Girdie!


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From: Reusser
Subject: Re: Suspension Bridge (Sorenson 3)
Date: 10 Jan 2003 22:38:39
Message: <100120032134054096%reu1000@chorus.net>
In article <3e1f8f8f$1@news.povray.org>, Greg M. Johnson wrote:

> Girdie!

Girdie?  I'm not familiar with that one...

-Ricky


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From: Mike White
Subject: Re: Suspension Bridge (Sorenson 3)
Date: 11 Jan 2003 01:42:01
Message: <3e1fbcb9$1@news.povray.org>
"Reusser" <reu### [at] chorusnet> wrote in message
news:3E1F7C43.A714ADED@chorus.net...
>     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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From: Stephen McAvoy
Subject: Re: Suspension Bridge (Sorenson 3)
Date: 11 Jan 2003 06:05:22
Message: <3e1ff9fc.82793831@news.povray.org>
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 20:06:59 -0600, Reusser <reu### [at] chorusnet>
wrote:


> 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. :)  

It falls over nicely


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From: hughes, b 
Subject: Re: Suspension Bridge (Sorenson 3)
Date: 11 Jan 2003 07:40:46
Message: <3e2010ce@news.povray.org>
Galloping Gertie, I believe Greg was referring to. A suspension bridge in
Tacoma, Washington, USA during the 1940's which waved in the wind until it
broke apart.

http://www.nwrain.net/~newtsuit/recoveries/narrows/gg.htm

I'd have thought it was spelled girdie too, since it is about steel girders.
Apparently the name was borrowed from a poem.
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Farewell,
Bob

"Reusser" <reu### [at] chorusnet> wrote in message
news:100120032134054096%reu### [at] chorusnet...
> In article <3e1f8f8f$1@news.povray.org>, Greg M. Johnson wrote:
>
> > Girdie!
>
> Girdie?  I'm not familiar with that one...


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From: Rick [Kitty5]
Subject: Re: Suspension Bridge (Sorenson 3)
Date: 11 Jan 2003 09:34:19
Message: <3e202b6b$1@news.povray.org>
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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From: Reusser
Subject: Re: Suspension Bridge (Sorenson 3)
Date: 11 Jan 2003 10:16:58
Message: <110120030912259389%reu1000@chorus.net>
In article <3e2010ce@news.povray.org>, hughes, b.
<omn### [at] charternet> wrote:

> Galloping Gertie, I believe Greg was referring to. A suspension bridge in
> Tacoma, Washington, USA during the 1940's which waved in the wind until it
> broke apart.

Okay, that makes sense.  Chalk one up for resonance.  Wait, no.  I
didn't model a car, man, and *sniff* dog to be on it when it fell.  But
I did think of the Tacoma Narrows and wondered how I could have wind
blow across it (like a cloth with a face, wind vector, dot product),
but that would be pretty tricky without altering the source.  I was
also trying to think of a way to set a tolerance for each
connection--exceed the tolerance for stress and it disappears.  It
would make a lot more sense for it to break as it falls rather than
bend and distort to no end.  Just thoughts.

   -Ricky


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From: Christoph Hormann
Subject: Re: Suspension Bridge (Sorenson 3)
Date: 11 Jan 2003 11:31:17
Message: <3E2046D5.2D96627A@gmx.de>
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...

Can't view it, sorry.

Christoph

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