Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Analyzing the Drop shape


The characteristic Drop shape [that appears when the ends of the saw blade touch each other] turned out to look rather different in the elastica version and the cornu spiral version. The latter is closer ! to the saw blade. With the help of grasshopper I plotted the curvature of the three curves above. The curvature of the elastica curve and the cornu spiral curve look as expected, but the curvature of the saw blade is a bit ambiguous and noisy. I probably need to redo the measurements.

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