Mambo Toolbox Functions - MakeDescription


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MakeDescription — Constructing a Mambo description [mathematica]

This function is not described in Multibody Mechanics and Visualization by Harry Dankowicz, published by Springer Verlag UK, 2004.

Calling Sequence

MakeDescription[{v1, ..., vn}, m]

Parameters

v1, ..., vn: Mambo vectors

m: integer

Description

The function MakeDescription returns a Mambo description, i.e., a rectangular array of the Mambo vectors v1, ..., vn and with row dimension given by the integer m. The number of vectors must be divisible by m.

Examples

Restart; DeclareTriads[a,b]; MakeDescription[Join[Table[MakeTranslations[a,i],{i,3}], Table[MakeTranslations[b,i],{i,3}]],2]

${Type \to Description, Size \to {2, 3}, {1, 1} \to {Type \to Vector, Size \to 1, 1 \to {Coordinates \to {1, 0, 0}, Triad \to a}}, {2, 1} \to {Type \to Vector, Size \to 1, 1 \to {Coordinates \to {1, 0, 0}, Triad \to b}}, {1, 2} \to {Type \to Vector, Size \to 1, 1 \to {Coordinates \to {0, 1, 0}, Triad \to a}}, {2, 2} \to {Type \to Vector, Size \to 1, 1 \to {Coordinates \to {0, 1, 0}, Triad \to b}}, {1, 3} \to {Type \to Vector, Size \to 1, 1 \to {Coordinates \to {0, 0, 1}, Triad \to a}}, {2, 3} \to {Type \to Vector, Size \to 1, 1 \to {Coordinates \to {0, 0, 1}, Triad \to b}}}$

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