difficult problem?

hello! is it possible to find a formula (or to achieve it it in any other way) that finds the scale factor which provides me that also the last segment has the input distance when i divide a closed crv by a defined distance?

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Permalink Reply by Michael Pryor on January 30, 2013 at 1:57pm

sounds like a good use of Galapagos.

Permalink Reply by Marios Tsiliakos on January 30, 2013 at 2:24pm

This problem is probably having many optima. I suppose that you can use the following, but I sense that you are looking for something more direct, than running an evolutionary solver.. I am not sure if you can find it.

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on January 30, 2013 at 2:29pm

The length of a curve scales linearly with 3D scale factor, so it would be fairly easy to do this as long as your division points are measured along the curve, not in 3D space (i.e. don't use Divide Distance).

Basically define your division length (d), the number of segments you want (N), measure the curve length (L) and your scale factor should be (d*N) / L

David Rutten

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Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on January 30, 2013 at 2:33pm