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BernardIE5317 wrote: unfortunately i can not figure out how software can be made to perform similarly . It sure is nice mechanics, but why would it be difficult to copy in software?
The sign consists of four partial images, they are each rotated around their own axis. You need to identify the four axes and the position of the partial image relative to its axis. Rotating each of the four partial images around their axes is far from rocket science software.
If you want to include the "background" rotating black gears, you have to add a couple more axes and images of the gears, but that would just be repeating the same stuff with different X/Y coordinates and image to be rotated.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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please pardon my inaccuracy . i did not intend to speak of graphics but rather of design / implementation of code itself . can this mechanical concept be abstracted into software development / behavior. perhaps if class and base class are switched the resulting class behaves in the opposite manner .
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I do not understand. The physical machinery rotates five graphic elements around five axes. What else would the "design / implementation of code" do but rotate five graphic elements around five axes?
Changing the look of a sign is manipulation of graphics, whether that manipulation is moving physical pieces or images of such pieces. In this case, the manipulation is rotation. The code will have to do the image rotation, just like the gears do the mechanical rotation. You have five images (with a lot of transparency) laid on top of each other, and you want to write the code to rotate those five images.
BernardIE5317 wrote: can this mechanical concept be abstracted into software development / behavior. perhaps if class and base class are switched the resulting class behaves in the opposite manner . The mechanical concept is five rotating pieces, nothing more. "Abstracting" this into a base class and a subclass is (in my opinion: senseless) over-engineering.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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i merely saw it as a kind of inspiration id est can one engineering discipline learn from another if for no other reason than entertainment / pastime / curiosity of no real practical use .
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I have seen a simple wooden sign, it says "OPEN" or "NOPE" -- the "N" can be slid to either side of the sign.
Last fall I was thinking of a version which is circular and the "N" would be on an outer circle and would be rotated to either position.
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Awesome, think I'll try to make one.
As the aircraft designer said, "Simplicate and add lightness".
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I think it can be pretty simple if the user manually turns the outer ring, but my initial thought was to have a pull-string which rotates the outer ring back and forth.
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I keep wondering whether or not you tried it.
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No, I've been buried with work.
Working more now since retirement since when I worked.
A home without books is a body without soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Wordle 927 2/6*
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Sometimes, you just don't see it
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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What dumb luck! Yuck! I have never seen this pattern before.
Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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Well, tomorrow means everything that's good about getting back to work.
The holidays are over and now's the time to stop relaxing and get after it!
*Unless you're retired, of course.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I'm retired but work harder now than I did when I was working.
I worked right through the Holidays making crafts for a Craft show coming up in two weeks.
As the aircraft designer said, "Simplicate and add lightness".
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Quote: *Unless you're retired, of course.
Retirees get no days off.
>64
There is never enough time to do it right, but there is enough time to do it over.
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theoldfool wrote: Retirees get no days off on.
FTFY
(Hobbies or jobs around the house don't count)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: *Unless you're retired, of course.
I read that as "Unless you're tired" Would very well describe my state - Christmas holidays are exhausting.
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No rest for the weary! There was only one day over the last two weeks that I did not work as I have a looming deadline for a new project. (self-imposed)
As for retirees, they are a big part of why I needed to work through the holidays/weekends...also a target of my one and only new year's resolution.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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And two of the game bundles are exactly 0% off!
Now my mental arithmetic isn't brilliant today (it's Michelle's birthday) but I'm pretty sure that's list price ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I got a deals email from somewhere a while back (don't remember the site), and some of the 'deals' were like -50% off (and yes, they were more expensive than normally listed). They sent out another email about an hour later apologizing for the malfunction. I later saw a person that worked there on Reddit blaming a disgruntled former developer (wouldn't be surprised if that was the case).
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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