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by AugusteDupin 239 days ago
As meindnoch points out, the connection needs to loop over the rotating object. That is no problem if the only affect of the rotation that interests you is the centrifugal force.

When you give plasma (not whole blood) the nurses use a centrifuge machine that seems impossible: one tube goes from you to it (carrying whole blood), another tube goes from it back to you (carrying plasma depleted blood). The mechanism of Dale. A. Adams keeps the tubes from twisting. Search “antitwister mechanism patent” for a drawing of the mechanism. As for the principle behind the mechanism, see http://Antitwister.ariwatch.com for a PC program where you can adjust every variable imaginable.
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Syntonicles 239 days ago
What a fascinating project. It looks a real labor of love, and I wish I understood it more deeply. I've been making my own visualization sandboxes like this to explore configuration spaces and groups - but for much simpler, more intuitive physical systems.

I went down a few rabbit holes on the site - is this program also written in Basic?

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AugusteDupin 238 days ago
Yes, specifically the PowerBasic console compiler version 4 (later versions don’t do animation nearly as well). The PowerBasic compilers are no longer being sold and the company appears to be defunct. Anyway, you can do a lot with a good BASIC compiler.
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