God ugh it was just so fuckin oily I don’t wanna eat anything again for a while
Genuinely was so disgusted by what I ate that I canceled my original dinner plans for my birthday I just want fuckin potatoes that day for all I care
Hope I can sleep through this headache. This house is a major pain in the ass sometimes.
I think rather than using multiple elastics around ball joints to act as vertebrae I can use ball bearings with a weight on one side and an elastic opposite to it, just thinking about it now tho that might limit the mobility compared to ball joints
Like 6 elastic strings that surround a central hard shaft connected by ball joints and a circular plate at the base of each shaft, the uppermost strings are more tensioned to keep the tail erect however they still allow mobility when any sort of momentum is applied to the tail allowing each segment to swing accordingly
I've never actually payed attention to how a cats tail feels weight and physiology wise so I don't know how to mimic the feeling of actual bones in the mechanism
I think for a prototype I will use bolts to tension the strings, I don't know the math to determine the stretch and properly tune the elastics so that it doesn't reach resonance when walking or certain tasks or aggressively twist, I was thinking the twist could be managed either by elastics perpendicular to the circular "vertebrae" plates or just limits on the ball joints and weighing one side down
It should be free to sway with momentum or even grab and curl around your body and then slowly (at semi quick pace) return to a natural erect position