Building 3D Models for the Web Building a Paddlewheel

Suppose that you wanted to build a paddle wheel, similar to the one pictured below. You can use the Box node to create one of the paddles, but how do you get them to rotate around the central axis of the paddlewheel?

You need to use the Transform node's rotation field.

After discussing rotations in class, replace the asterisks in paddlewheel.wrl with appropriate numbers to create the paddlewheel pictured above. The solution is at paddlewheel2.wrl.

Maintained by H. Edward Donley <hedonley@grove.iup.edu>
Last Modified Monday, 13-Aug-2001 16:53:28 EDT