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Old 08-12-2015, 03:50 PM   #28 (permalink)
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seifrob -- TFA makes it sound like a compound system, rather than a replacement of the axial fans.

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There was a unique system of air-cooling, ensured by two axial fans, driven by cone belts from the crankshaft. The fans are supported by an ejection effect of exhaust gas, because the exhaust piping leads to air channels with air heated by the engine, entrained by the motional energy of exhaust gas. This was a unique layout of combustion engine cooling system
Not saying you're wrong, though.

Cycle -- I've done 'arty' things and 3D modelling doesn't remind me of that. In Wings you are constructing a string of operations on primitives, you just choose from right-click menus instead of writing the code out directly. It's still sensitive to the order of operations. You find yourself combining, rotating and separating objects.

Artistic comes in at the point of texturing and lighting for renders.
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