Forum: 3D Modeling


Subject: Entomopter wing...

pauljs75 opened this issue on May 19, 2003 ยท 11 posts


pauljs75 posted Mon, 19 May 2003 at 1:17 PM

It's gonna be small. Quite small. The whole mechanism would fit easily in the palm of the hand. (Now that I think of it, the springs on the wingroot articuling assembly probably aren't the best design for this scale - but I'm too far along to just go and rework it. D'oh!) The body for the "microdrone entomopter" is going to essentially be an IC board with parts soldered and plugged into it. Power provided of course by one or two hearing aid or watch type batteries. I'm thinking of using two pairs of these wings like a dragonfly. Except this "dragonfly" will have a pinhole videocamera, a microphone, and an antenna hanging from the tail end. As for the n-gons, yeah I may have missed a few - but with Wings3D it's as simple as hitting F5 and looking for the selected polygons. I try to nip them in the bud ASAP as "n-gons BAAAD!" and they cause holes and artifacts during some renderings. If anyone's interested in as to how the chamfers on the extruded parts are controlled - it is done by adjustment of how tight the edgeloops are at the extrusion areas.


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