Re: Typhoon/line dwg.'s application

[Rick Lucertini <empiricus@sprint.ca>]

Michael B Holt wrote:

> On Tue, 06 Jul 1999 20:03:08 -0700 Rick Lucertini writes:
> >You too, huh?  I skewered my Typhoon  model to insert a diver so I
> >could work out the scaling.
>
> Where did you get the diver figure?  What scale is it?

Don't know the scale but it's about 4in. high.  Found the diver in a very sub-ish looking helicopter
toy.  I often look to other areas for creative inspiration.  Carved out a kayak style cockpit area
for the figure.  Now I can vary the length simply by cutting out sections of the model.  I cut too
far last time (too short) so I'll paste on another section to get a comfortable length.

> [snip]            there's a comprehensive app. that will - are you all ready for
> >this - create line drawings from an object in a photograph!
>
> Where, exactly, is this software?   I want it.

Will look for it ASAP and send you the page off-list.  This list is the entry page - go to
"freeware' in left hand frame.  If I find it before you I'll send you and the list the link.

http://www.ded.com/nonags/

> >Implication: take several pics of, say a Biber, and it will create
> >line drawings for you.  Not bad, hmmmm?
>
> The Seehund worked better.   But I'd try the Biber, too.

Yeah -apparently the Bibers had some problems.  Those Seehunds were proper little subs weren't they.
  BTW, I have a schematic of a Seehund - you would like?

> >The Seaview was no so good!  Sure looked nice, tho'.
>
> In the years since I first saw it, I've kicked around a "real" Seaview.
> I even took the Renwal George Washington kit and replaced the
> torpedo room with an observation compartment.   (The torpedo
> room went aft, to displace six missile tubes, in its own two-level,
> eight-tube compartment.   Wasn't being a bored teen fun?)  The
> model vanished somewhere.

I used to blow mine up.  A Spitfire launched from the second story veranda with a short fuse was so
much fun.  Where was Harold Edgerton when I needed him . . .

Now . . . a sub with decks awash, with gasoline in the bilges, a VERY long fuse.  But, I digress.
This is a PSUBS list and we should be blowing up X-Craft or Negers or Koryu's - but NOT Typhoons!

> >In the quest for the Holy Grail of sci-fi design-cool, many space
> >craft are designed specifically as cover art for paperbacks.
> >There is a wealth of drama there for the pickin's.
>
> The cover art on the paperback of "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"
> shows not the Seaview but a huge Skipjack with the observation
> compartment faired into the aft end of the sail.

Needless to say to watch a torpedo or giant lingcod coming at them.  Speaking of hull forms, have
you seen the latest Star Wars spacecraft toys?  Hull development for the Naboo fighter would be
fairly straightforward with ply panels.  Make a great single seater wet or dry ambient sub.

> >Think I'm kidding?  Star Trek and Star Wars has motivated more than
> >one NASA engineer and astronaut.
>
> Star Wars came along after the space program had been scrapped,
> but I hear William Shatner and his crew still get fan mail from retired
> NASA types who'd have been accountants without that starship.

Haw - but, a lot of next-generation engineers showed up after 1977.  Somehow, somewhere, (I feel it
inside) I know, that, a long long time ago, there truly was a galaxy far away.  I was born one
millenium too early.

Rick




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