JBrickBuilder connection model


Re: JBrickBuilder connection model
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Hi Jakub.

If you mean "interaction" as "if a gear rotate, then linked gear also rotate", no.

But you can use a group of connections around gear's teeth to "snap" a gear with another in right position. Let me explain with an image. In red you see "slot" connections, in blue "tooth" connections, defined as connection coupling: a tooth can only connect along a slot.

Now the problems are
- you will have a connection point for every tooth and for every slot
- none of the three connection family I defined is suitable to "snap" gears in right position in every condition.

But, there isn't any problem to use same schema to define a new "interaction model".
You can define some property (like "degree of freedom" or "motion propagation") and points, vectors, hinge centers to place in "parts space". After that you can develop a model to simulate motions and rotations.

Mario


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Re: JBrickBuilder connection model - by Mario Pascucci - 2015-01-23, 14:32

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