Oval kitchen table....?

[Dave Richards]

Maybe what you really want is a super ellipse. Take a look at this link or Google it. http://www.oberonplace.com/products/...or/lesson2.htm

[Dennis Peacock]

Maybe what you really want is a super ellipse. Take a look at this link or Google it. http://www.oberonplace.com/products/...or/lesson2.htm

Dave,

That's more of what I'm looking for but maybe the customer has a different shape for the "oval table".

BTW, Here's what I got from that link and had to translate some of it:

Original text:
X(t) = 3*sign(cos(t)*(abs(cos(t)))^(2/2.5)
Y(t) = 2*sign(sin(t)*(abs(sin(t)))^(2/2.5)

Translated text:
Xt = 3 signs that cost an absolute cost of something higher than 2 divided by 2.5.....with that said....then......
Yt = 2 signs that sint to an absolute sint, that cost us all higher than 2 divided by 2.5......

So.....with all that said? Just keep scratchin' it out until you like what you see.

[Steve Clardy]

Dennis. Ya gotta add in the mustard color formula in there somewhere

[Ken Garlock]

Maybe what you really want is a super ellipse. Take a look at this link or Google it. http://www.oberonplace.com/products/...or/lesson2.htm

Dave, that is slicker than snot on a glass doorknob.

[Frank Chaffee]

Dennis,
The superelliptical shape that Dave Richards suggests seems to be both the most pleasing as well as most practical shape for this tabletop.

The only suggestion I can make is that perhaps the 39” x 60” dimensions could be slightly adjusted to the golden proportion of 1:1.618. Whether you would apply that mean to the overall dimensions, the included rectangle, or thru the centroids of the arc (?) sectors, is where you get to have all the fun!
Frank

[Chris Giles]

In the contract furniture trade, we used to call radiused ends with parallel sides a "racetrack" table, for obvious reasons. The shape Dave showed in the CAD drawing is in fact a "Boat" shaped table. I am liking that "superelipse" form. That seems to work well on almost any proportion of table size- something the other shapes don't do well. I"m going to try that shape on the next ovalesque table order I get.

[Dave Richards]

Dave, that is slicker than snot on a glass doorknob.

Did someone say "glass doorknob"?