by bythelee » Sat Nov 10, 2012 2:49 am
Ah. I had just thought that dec10 had edited his post to say he was still trying after all, then it finishes.
I was just having a go to see if the "Southern Passage" was viable for the non-rocket powered option.
It was hard work getting the mechanism to give enough power and direction to the dillo.
Two "perfect launches" (with different geometry) got the dillo close to the anchor just below the apex between O and W, but not enough to go over.
Closer examination showed the guiding channel to have just enough undulation, that the fast dillo was being launched off the outer rail into a dip in the inner. The cascading rebounds took away enough energy for the method to fail. Adding one smoothing plate helped one of the geometries to get to the apex, but not over it. So another little helper was needed for the method to succeed.
The extra bits reduced the score to 1176, but it does show the Southern Passage through the O was ultimately viable.
But the wobbly bits of the "O" certainly made this a very tough challenge, needing a lot of trial and error to complete.
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