Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:50:07 -0700
Reply-To: Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@Q.COM>
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From: Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@Q.COM>
Subject: Re: The Vanagon as a standard unit of volume
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Direct from Wikipedia: In geometry, an n-sided prism is a polyhedron made
of an n-sided polygonal base, a translated copy, and n faces joining
corresponding sides. Thus these joining faces are parallelograms. All
cross-sections parallel to the base faces are the same. The prisms are a
subclass of the prismatoids.
Basically, most 3 dimensional shapes with non-curved edges.
Karl Wolz
|-----Original Message-----
|From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
|Scott Daniel - Turbovans
|Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 7:17 PM
|To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
|Subject: Re: The Vanagon as a standard unit of volume
|
|'rectangular prism' .......?
|rather use loose of the word 'prism' me thinks.
|
|rectangular box is more like it.
|or does light shine through your van and break up into a rainbow thing ?
|
|but who cares !
|care for it and use the fine machine !
|
|nice trip you have coming up.
|
|
|----- Original Message -----
|From: "Mike "Rocket J Squirrel"" <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
|To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
|Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 3:42 PM
|Subject: Re: The Vanagon as a standard unit of volume
|
|
|> Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote:
|>> exterior volume, or interior volume ?
|>>
|>> for interior volume of an odd shape, without hurting it, you just fill
|it
|>> with ping pong balls or whatever, then remove those and put them in a
|>> properly shaped container that you can use to calculate the volume.
|>
|> That's a lot of table tennis balls. Who wants to pay for them? My method
|> is miles cheaper, costs nothing.
|>
|>> the pool method is good though.
|>
|> Are you volunteering your van, a hoist, the pool? Again, my method wins
|> on the basis not only of cheapness but it's 100% accurate, and orders of
|> magnitude easier to do -- in fact, it's already been done.
|>
|> Viz:
|>
|> Assume the standard volumetric Vanagon to be a rectangular prism with
|> the following dimensions: 15' x 6'4'' x 6'1''
|>
|> Done and done.
|>
|> This has been a good Friday.
|>
|> --
|> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
|> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
|> 74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
|> Bend, OR
|> KG6RCR
| 
