Re: [ATM] stainless steel "freezing" and PLOP

["Jeff Anderson-Lee" <jonah@cs.berkeley.edu>]

Jay Kirkland wrote:

>Even on oddly shaped triangles, if you left the same amount of edge (say
>1/2") on the outside of the triangles beyond the the three support points,
>that wouldn't alter the CoB, would it? 
>
Yes it would.  You have to add an amount such that the new shape has the 
same CoB as the smaller one. 

One way to do that is by expanding the dimensions proportionally.  For 
example you could shift the sides or vertices out 10% from the CoB and 
draw the new limits.  Simply scaling the sides by 10% will work too.

In all but a true equilateral triangle this will give different results 
than adding the same amount to each edge.

Jeff

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