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by Brithos
June 26th, 2026, 4:57 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Unfinished Herschel Climber (28,3)
Replies: 56
Views: 10830

Re: Unfinished Herschel Climber (28,3)


The helix doesn't look like the ones previously shown in this thread. How did you find it? How did you assemble the entire thing? How long did it take?

Actually, the helix is substantially the p252 one by FWKnigtship , with only small tweaks to allow constructability,

On the other end, I spent ...
by Brithos
June 23rd, 2026, 8:22 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Unfinished Herschel Climber (28,3)
Replies: 56
Views: 10830

Re: Unfinished Herschel Climber (28,3)

Thanks all for the reception and comments.
Also, would (28,3) actually be the correct slope? (EDIT 2: fixed)

I am not aware of a slope naming convention, so if the canonical slope is (28,3), so be it.



I noticed that almost all of the length is spent in resetting the spine to be closer to the ...
by Brithos
June 22nd, 2026, 11:34 am
Forum: Patterns
Topic: Unfinished Herschel Climber (28,3)
Replies: 56
Views: 10830

Re: Unfinished Herschel Climber (28,3)

HI all. It's huge, inefficient, brutish and quite ugly, but it works. (3,28)c/84 engineered ship completed.

Real period: 252 (3x)
min pop: ~186.8 M
B.box: ~16.7M x 5.2M.

Corrections encouraged...