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Old 11-30-2019, 02:00 PM   #61 (permalink)
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Perhaps the issue is cognito ergo sum. Or some derivative. We called it the 57 chevy rule way back in college where you "SEE" things that reinforce your beliefs, truth be damned.
I like 'the eye cannot see what the mind does not know', but the modern rendition (per Scott Adams) is 'two movies on one screen'.
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I don't think anybody has had the time or compute power to generate hard dimensional data based on the reveal pictures.
I think it's possible with 3D from 2D software. There exist enough pictures from enough angle to reproduce the shape. It's the CFD that's compute intensive.

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This one has the side windows modeled:

TLDR: he fudges the 0.38 result down to 0.30.

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Offtopic for the thread, but The FUV Has Arrived! Arcimoto | In Depth has M. Frohnmayer commenting on the implications of the 'origami' construction technique. Panel vans and etc. at 0 additional cost.

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