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I am the proud owner of a used iMac. I just haven’t turned it on yet. In fact, it is in a box half way here right now. I am starting an iOS project but I also hope to port the Linkage program to the Mac at some…
Continue readingI wrote a while back about what I had discovered about AJAX and posting form data. I recently reused some of that old code and found some needed code to be missing. The old post is here. What I had not coded before was code to handle form…
Continue readingIt took me a while but I now totally understand the DXF format. It wasn’t until I needed to change a bit of the output from the free source code I used, that I needed up getting the details I needed to not be confused. The format is…
Continue readingThe release of SimCity 5 sparked my interest in a new Railroad Tycoon game. Although Electronic Arts seems to have failed to build a SimCity game that works like I want it to work, their failure was mostly in releasing a game that could then not be played….
Continue readingThe code was fairly simple to write and I had a few minutes to spare today while running some long tests on other code. The video shows a few variations of the multiple slider mechanisms. The sliding connectors must have the exact same sliding radius for these to…
Continue readingLink That Slides on Curve I am attempting to make a link slide on a curve. When I started writing the code to handle this, I thought that maybe there is a better way. There must be a way to write the simulation code so that there are…
Continue readingWhile testing the sliding link feature to make sure that I had not missed something when programming the curved path handling, I have been making interesting mechanisms. Although some configurations are still not handled in the code, things like this work fine. Interesting Mechanism Video
Continue readingA typo in my post a moment ago made me wonder if I should just add a letter to the word “linkage” and use that as the new name of the program. “Linkjage” has a certain ring to it. Oscillating input is something that I have thought about…
Continue readingI moved the pink entry to a later position in the color table. Linkage should now have pink links only after there are more than 15 or 20 links in the mechanism. I started to notice that all of the images that I was posting were a bit…
Continue readingCurved Sliding Connector Paths are working! There is a type of configuration that is not handled by the simulator but the simpler situations are now handled. Valid Sliding Connector Curved Paths Invalid Curved Paths I am planning on improving the simulator so that it can handle…
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