{"id":207,"date":"2009-06-24T05:01:15","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T13:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=207"},"modified":"2009-06-23T07:08:38","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T15:08:38","slug":"june-legion-contest-ellipsoid-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fcsuper.com\/swblog\/?p=207","title":{"rendered":"June SW Legion Contest: Create an Ellipsoid model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#800000\">The <em>June SW Legion Contest<\/em> is a different kind of challenge!\u00c2\u00a0 The task is to submit the simplest SolidWorks model of an <\/font><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ellipsoid\" title=\"Wikipedia article about ellipsoids\"><font color=\"#800000\"><strong><font color=\"#333300\">ellipsoid<\/font><\/strong> <\/font><\/a><font color=\"#800000\">possible.\u00c2\u00a0 The person with the least combined number of features and\u00c2\u00a0sketches wins.\u00c2\u00a0 Use of equations is highly\u00c2\u00a0encouraged.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#800000\">The submitter must be the author of the file they submit.\u00c2\u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#800000\">Contestants may email their entry to me at my <\/font><a href=\"mailto:fcsuper@gmail.com\"><font color=\"#333300\">email address<\/font><\/a><font color=\"#800000\">\u00c2\u00a0by the end of July 6, 2009 PDT.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" width=\"475\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/f\/fb\/Ellipsoid_321.png\" hspace=\"2\" alt=\"Ellipsoid\" height=\"315\" style=\"width: 410px; 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