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Off Topic => Not Boats => Topic started by: Will_Lee on November 12, 2008, 03:27:18 PM

Title: Phun
Post by: Will_Lee on November 12, 2008, 03:27:18 PM

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0H5g9VS0ENM

or even

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AQyL9VBeq8w&feature=related

It's a free download from here - PC MAC or Linux.

http://www.phunland.com/wiki/Home

Title: Re: Phun
Post by: Phil Alderson on November 14, 2008, 08:51:20 AM
That is quite good, I have not got it to do anything usefull yet.
Title: Re: Phun
Post by: Will_Lee on November 14, 2008, 02:05:12 PM
No: It's all quite silly - There is no 'print to carbon fibre' button either!

There is no aerodynamics, and air buoyancy only works straight up (so lighter than air things move the wrong way in accelerating chambers).

Also the water is very compressable, making using it for hydrostatics (my original idea) not much good.
Title: Re: Phun
Post by: Phil Alderson on November 14, 2008, 02:58:10 PM
Quote from: Will_Lee on November 14, 2008, 02:05:12 PM
No: It's all quite silly - There is no 'print to carbon fibre' button either!

There is no aerodynamics, and air buoyancy only works straight up (so lighter than air things move the wrong way in accelerating chambers).

Also the water is very compressable, making using it for hydrostatics (my original idea) not much good.

It may not be accurate and a bit childish but I was having fun making odd boat shapes and dropping blocks in till they sank.

I was thinking it would be possible to do an animation demonstrating mechanical advantage through a cascade of blocks.
Title: Re: Phun
Post by: Will_Lee on November 17, 2008, 08:02:20 AM
Fab! Chains are scaled by the view you have, so you can make a small one by zooming right in.

Even complex systems can be simulated (Attention T foil system designers).
Title: Re: Phun
Post by: dave_ching on November 20, 2008, 03:43:23 PM
Children do you not have work to go to?
Just downloading my copy now.
Title: Re: Phun
Post by: Will_Lee on November 20, 2008, 06:23:10 PM
The chains are disappointingly stretchy and the water is disappointingly compressible!