Thanks for the clarification Jim!<br>
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Don<br>
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From: Stuart Chale <schale@optonline.net><br>
To: General pattern discussion <nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org><br>
Sent: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 5:45 pm<br>
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Correct Geometry on N<br>
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Strange :) <br>
Stuart <br>
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James Oddino wrote: <br>
> "The figure is equally tall as it is wide." No it isn't. > Horizontally it is as large as the diameter of the circle. Vertically > it is the distance across the flats which is less. <br>
> <br>
> Jim O <br>
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> <br>
> On Jul 8, 2008, at 2:01 PM, Stuart Chale wrote: <br>
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>> OK lets see if this works. <br>
>> In the attached drawing there is a hexagon with sharp corners. Drawn >> symmetrically. Superimposed is the same 6 sided figure with radiused >> corners. Around this one is a circle just touching each radius. >> The figure is equally tall as it is wide. <br>
>> <br>
>> Stuart <br>
>> <br>
>> <A href="mailto:atwoodm@paragon-inc.com">atwoodm@paragon-inc.com</A> wrote: <br>
>>> I gotta go with Richard on this. The length of sides of a 30/60/90 >>> triangle are X(short side), 2X (hypotenuse), X * square root of 3 >>> (medium side). If we make X = 1 then the height of the hexagon >>> will always be 3.46 but the width will very as the side "points" >>> are trimmed by the increasing radius. With zero radius, the width >>> in my example would be 4 (thus richards 1.15 ratio). As the radius >>> grows the width narrows. <br>
>>> Does someone with Cad want to draw this up? <br>
>>> <br>
>>> Its somewhat irrelevant. If the angles are correct, and there's >>> symmetry, and equal line lengths, the actual shape will be correct >>> regardless of "roundness" <br>
>>> <br>
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