[python] Re: Question for the experts



dirk.bonne@xxxxxxx schrieb:

Hi Ronald,

Ronald W. Hongsermeier wrote:

Please excuse my presumption that the "tadpole" moniker followed the biological model, albeit with wheels! It's been a long time since I've actually seen any pollywogs-- maybe I'm mistaken in remembering them as tail"fin"-driven.

Seeing a trike setup like this, the first association that props up in the head is "tadpole"...

My original remarks were simply to imply that I couldn't define the imagined configuration enough to respond succinctly. I imagined that a base-forward, front-wheel driven triangular-framed trike would have some other specific nomenclature. I haven't been around the recumbent scene for long and up to that point all of the egs. of reversed trikes called tadpole I had seen were rear-wheel drives. I can imagine all kinds of drive variations for trikes, but the first thing that comes to mind when someone says trike to me is neither a converted VW bug nor a catrike. Rather I think of that first three-wheeled conveyance with which I was able to navigate with any degree of physical security. I promptly ( or so says my mother) took my three years of worldly experience and disappeared for the better part of a day, which led to a search by local police, sheriff's and fire-departments. There's an awful lot to see within the confines of a radius of a half-km, especially if you're inexperienced and inquisitive. That's why I like riding my bike to work so much, though at age 3 I never had leg cramps in the middle of the night. :(


At least, if you show some good will, you could image two gills behind its ears used for steering. The question if these gills are really there, you should ask a child with a fishing net.

This seems rather a question of at which developmental point in time the child with the net wanders into the pond, but I have a great deal of good will left over at any point. It is interesting that the toad or frog seems to get its primary motive force from the back end and fine-steering from the front, allowing, of course for the fact the there is, so to speak, a split differential in the rear drive on amphibians that still have both rear legs... ;-)

I suppose, due to my limited engineering skills and lack of mateial resources and time, I just have to accept the fact that my attenuation to proven and surviving biological models will be rather limited.; until, of course, I can afford a robot with full-featured DNA and structure bubble-jet construction technology. :)


Dr. Bonné 

rwh

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