Nice. Can anybody play?

Where do I fit in?

Seven Stages of a Project

1. Wild Enthusiasm
2. Well Take It Form Here
3. Total Confusion
4. Disillusionment
5. The Search For The Guilty
6. Punishment Of The Innocent
7. Promotion Of The Non-Participants

The Missing Link

Probably better to post pics here so we don't have to click and wait some more...

Have you tried anything at all, I must wonder, since you did not say?

That's not difficult, but I'm out of time...

So, Sam or Bob,

(It just seems like a stupid question...) Each rib is created individually (pick and run plugin 20 times or so for model shown) as otherwise there would be cross-connections between more proximate points on adjacent ribs?

Thanks, Sam.

Anyone who has a specific use, please post it. For me they start to appear and then recede into the fog.

I'm just guessing that the windows are straight elements in a sometimes curving wall. I'd say model the wall with the appropriate thickness, then cut the windows in.

Not to play the rat here, but wouldn't that be best implemented as a 'begin (within) new group model now' thing, rather than something limited to line creation?

Krzys, Folks can help you out if they can quickly see the specific problems you are having. Why not post a model or pictures to help them help you?

I ain't complainin'.

You win.

That's nice, Jeff.

Please add to your new Curvi-tut thread, alongside Charly's.

yikes.... The low res video is very helpful in understanding this one. I wonder what the overall project was.

Well, that's still very helpful on curvi use. I finally figured out, since no one would tell me, that one must 'escape' from orbiting while in edit mode in order to preserve the session. 'Space' ends the session without saving.

This pic has nothing to do with that. Yes, for this case CurviLoft seems fast and well suited.

I'm not going to rename my copy 'Brookes_Ribs.rb'. It just wouldn't feel right.

Yes, thanks, Jeff.

I think you should drop a copy of you vid over in the one or all of the curvi threads.

I appreciate your weighing in. If you have the photo in hand, quicker, as you say, but if you don't (as he didn't), nice to know you can 'make' the photograph.

Thank you, Peter.

No, I understand and appreciate your wanting to go with the easiest, best as judged by you. I was hoping 'they' might comment and help us both.

@unknownuser said:

Looks like it would be easy to model one roof tile, copy many times to make a square, and then take a pic of that and edit it, convert to png or whatever you need to make a render texture tile.

Is this tenable, reasonable or not so much?

Pretty rich. (maybe should have edited the last 30 secs or so but not sure how.)

Looks like it would be easy to model one roof tile, copy many times to make a square, and then take a pic of that and edit it, convert to png or whatever you need to make a render texture tile. I don't render, clearly.

Thanks for that. Wobble again.

Google image search is fruitful.

CUED: Missing Page

(www2.eng.cam.ac.uk)

@unknownuser said:

The bridge opened on 10 June 2000. For the opening ceremony, a crowd of over 1000 people had assembled on the south half of the bridge with a band in front. When they started to walk across with the band playing, there was immediately an unexpectedly pronounced lateral movement of the bridge deck. This movement became sufficiently large for people to stop walking to retain their balance and sometimes to hold onto the hand rails for support. Video pictures showed later that the south span had been moving through an amplitude of about 50 mm at 0.8 Hz and the centre span about 75 mm at 1 Hz approximately. Probably higher amplitudes occurred periodically and several modes were involved. It was decided immediately to limit the number of people on the bridge, but even so the deck movement was sufficient to be uncomfortable and to raise concern for public safety so that on 12 June the bridge was closed until the problem could be solved. It was not reopened to the public until 22 February 2002.

Page not found - Expedition Engineering

Expedition Engineering (www.expedition.uk.com)

Chris Wise - Arup Director in charge of Millennium Bridge, from inception in August 1996 to end of detailed design, June 1999. (Article written in January 2000…….6 months before the wobble!!)

@unknownuser said:

The Millenium Bridge opened on 10 June 2000 as London's first new Thames crossing in more than 100 years. This modern 320m long structure was designed by the architect Sir Norman Foster with sculptor Sir Anthony Caro and engineers Arup. This whole project cost 18 million pounds for construction and 5 million pounds for various modifications. It was opened by The Queen.