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- From: Andrew.Longhorn@cs.anu.edu.au (Andrew Longhorn (Vac Scholar))
- Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
- Subject: TECH: Info req: VR floaty apparatus thingy
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.072335.23257@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 23:32:09 GMT
- Article-I.D.: u.1992Dec22.072335.23257
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- Organization: University of Washington
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- Approved: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu
- Originator: hlab@stein.u.washington.edu
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- Is there a standard mechanical guideline for making those spinning
- things you stand in like on "the lawnmower man"?
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- I was just wondering if there was some tried and true design that all
- builders follow or whether anyone building them goes and does it any
- way they think will work.
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- I know they have been around for a long time and I don't want to
- re-invent this sort of thing, but I could think of two basic
- approaches:
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- And a slightly different one where some of the pivoting joints are
- tilted at 45 degrees to the ground.
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- Am I wrong when I suspect that most combinations can produce the same
- movements?
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- Are there any references anyone can point me towards on this subject?
- Tech-reports, papers, books, etc.
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- Thank You,
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- Andrew Longhorn.
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- andrewl@cs.anu.edu.au
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