On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:24:55 -0800, charlieb
wrote:

In the thread "Where Do Ideas Come From - Creativity or Synthesisity" I
used an accidental synthesis "discovery"
- a turned ball and socket swivel joint - and a simple use
for it - an articulated chain of beads. That process
was difficult to describe with just text, even with some
ASCII illustrations. So I played with a primitive CAD program
and illustrated the procedure I used to make the trickier
parts of the swivel joint - mainly for my own future
reference (I jump around a lot and might not get back
to this idea for months or even a year). Not much effort
to put tht stuff up on the web and maybe get someone
else to play with the idea. So here's what's up for your
perusal.

http://web.hypersurf.com/~charlie2/T...tedChain2.html

Now I'm noodling around thinking of variations and uses.
If I come up with anything interesting I'll post a link.

Neat stuff, Charlie- keep it up!