I need to create an animation of a sail being furled and unfurled around a mast. The only idea I have is to create multiple configurations of the sail in different states of being unfurled. Does anyone have any other ideas of how to show this. I need to show this in a presentation.
Animating a sail being unfurled...any ideas???
Sep 26, 2006
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Animation apps like 3ds max or Maya have built-in cloth simulation tools and could do this for you. I don't think SolidWorks has anything like this, but if there is 3rd party tool, I don't know how it would fit into the rendering pipeline. Even cloth sim tools need a lot of finesse work to get what you want.
If you are using a video editor, you could build the various configurations of the sail, render still images at 2 to 5 second intervals and crossfade between them. By fading between the still images, you will give the audience a sense of time-lapse and continuity without having to build hundreds of configurations. Doing this, the final presentation format would likely have to be video (Quicktime or Windows Media?)
Joel
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Page 4 has an animated flag and on page 5 "Unwindable Spirals", either maybe useful to you.
John Layne
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