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/** This program makes chopsticks with polygonal sides for 3-D printing. A
Japanese TV show said that 5-sided or 7-sided chopsticks were more
comfortable in the hand. This basiclaly tests the extrusion of a tapered
polygon for 3D printing.
*/
polygon = newJava["frink.graphics.Point2DFloatList"]
sides = 5
sideAngle = circle/sides
angle = 90 deg // Point at top
outerRadius = 9 mm / 2
tipRadius = 3.4 mm / 2
length = 9 in
res = 254/in
for i = 1 to sides
{
x = outerRadius cos[angle] res
y = outerRadius sin[angle] res
polygon.addPoint[x,y]
angle = angle + sideAngle
}
v = callJava["frink.graphics.VoxelArray", "extrudeZTapered", [polygon, 0 in res, length res, outerRadius/outerRadius, tipRadius/outerRadius]]
v.projectX[undef].show["X"]
v.projectY[undef].show["Y"]
v.projectZ[undef].show["Z"]
filename = "Chopsticks${sides}x" + format[length, in, 1] + "od" + format[2 outerRadius, mm, 1] + "id" + format[2 tipRadius, mm, 1] + ".obj"
print["Writing $filename..."]
w = new Writer[filename]
w.println[v.toObjFormat["chopsticks", 1/(res mm)]]
w.close[]
println["done."]
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This is a program written in the programming language Frink.
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