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I am making good progress on the measurement/dimensions code for the Linkage program. All Things Measured The measurement feature is fully automatic. Enabling this by checking the Dimensions check box in the toolbar shows the measurements. Things that are noteworthy at the moment Anchor measurements are based on…
Continue readingI was bored and added a fixed size video capture area. The area is centered in the window, even if the window is smaller than the video resolution, and the user can opt to show or hide a box around the area. Video Area The video is only…
Continue readingJansen Mechanism with Measurements I have added a simple “show all” dimensioning, or measurement, feature to the Linkage program. This was interesting because I wanted to automatically decide how to show measurements for links with three or more connectors. For a link with three or more connectors, the…
Continue readingIt took me a few minutes to figure out the difference between Escapement and Orientation when using the CreateFont() function. Actually, it took me about 2 seconds to figure it out once I had seem discussion about it and heard about people trying to create some sort of…
Continue readingThe Linkage program lets the user add linear actuators to a mechanism. These are drawn a little bit like a hydraulic cylinder or a similar motorized linear actuator. Simple Linear Actuator There is an interesting issue with these actuators. Actually, there is a bug in how the actuator…
Continue readingI was just playing around with my circle art graphic script and thought that an interesting program might be one that uses a genetic parent child and genetic mutation mechanism to “decide” on the shape and style of the graphics. I would do this with reproduction mechanisms like…
Continue readingI am sitting in a giant conference room listening to a presentation about RNA something or other. The presenter is giving a presentation using PowerPoint and I see people taking pictures of the giant screen. My idea is to build in a feature to any wifi device where…
Continue readingI was sitting here trying to come up with a topic for a blog post. I could post about how the Windows Phone project is coming along and how cool it was to add a splash screen that says “Microsoft” on it. But having Microsoft use my app…
Continue readingI have been using a screen capture utility to create animations from my linkage mechanism simulator. It worked ok but creating the animation directly is a better choice. Fortunately, Windows provides all of the tools necessary to add this directly into the program. I added a Save Video…
Continue readingI am adding an alignment feature to the Linkage program. So far, I have three ways to align connectors. Right Angle Before and after alignment three connectors to form a right angle. When three connectors are selected, a right angle can be made by moving the third…
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