mobius strip/ ellipse plan

[fightchrisback]

hello everybody

does anyone know how we can create a mobius strip, which has an ellipse, not a circle, as a plan section??

thnx
christina

[iain9876]

difficult one..

but heres a definition of a mobius strip

http://www.physlink.com/Education/askExperts/ae401.cfm

[hendie]

hello everybody

does anyone know how we can create a mobius strip, which has an ellipse, not a circle, as a plan section??

thnx
christina

If you had carried out a simple search you would have found this excellent Mobius thread
by Fuccaro, as well as a few other threads

[fightchrisback]

thnx for the advice, however I have done my researche . Fuccaro has done a great job, but I need mobius strip to be based on an ellipse
not on a circle.

christina

[fuccaro]

Christina
Go to the link pointed by Hendie, go to the 3rd page and scroll down to the last post.

[hendie]

Christina
Go to the link pointed by Hendie, go to the 3rd page and scroll down to the last post.

thanks Miklos, it always pays to pay attention eh ?

[fuccaro]

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[fightchrisback]

thnx a lot guys

u r a great help...! :-)

christina

[Mr T]

WOW that's an old post.

Nick

[fightchrisback]

I visited the forum's archive hendie mentioned (http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showth...ghlight=mobius) & I found the mobius strip,solid and the "Twisted thorus", made by fuccaro. The closest to what I try to create is the “rectangular cross section and eliptycal path”


I actually want to create sth like this ( attached), a mobius surface and a mobius solid which have ellipse as a plan section, but I need to create it in a more specific way, so that I can easily control any changes I want to make.

Is there anyone who could help me??????

And a second question….whenf I finally manage to make the “ellipse- mobius band”

--How could I control-choose the points where the twist starts being more intense?
--How could I control the angle created by the sides and the “ground”?

By controlling these, you can create different mobius bands, which all have the same ellipse, as a plan section.


The answer might be simple… probably by changing some parameters on the code, but I have no idea about v.lisp and it all looks Chinese to me!


please... HELP !!!


Thnx
Christina