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Tony Jeffree - 21 Oct 2008 23:24 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dauoL7U7zEU

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0OTX4IwSOo&feature=related

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=EK4Yg3kU4oE&NR=1

Enjoy!

Regards,
Tony

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steamer - 22 Oct 2008 16:40 GMT

--Thanks for that; totally awesome! Gotta build one of those!!

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Adrian Godwin - 28 Oct 2008 11:31 GMT

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dauoL7U7zEU
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> Regards,
> Tony

Reminds me of this video :

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5503582578132361295

Though it's even more impressive to see the balls hit the funnels in real life.

-adrian

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Tony Jeffree - 28 Oct 2008 11:57 GMT

>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dauoL7U7zEU
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>Though it's even more impressive to see the balls hit the funnels in real life.

In your dreams....I quote:

"From the first Animusic DVD. Pipe Dream has been voted one of the 50
greatest animation projects ever (by 3D World magazine). "

Regards,
Tony

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Peter Fairbrother - 28 Oct 2008 11:28 GMT

>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dauoL7U7zEU
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>>> Regards,
>>> Tony

http://www2.bc.edu/~lewbel/shortsha.mov

(Claude Shannon was the sole father of information theory, and one of
the founding fathers of cryptology)

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Tony Jeffree - 28 Oct 2008 13:18 GMT

>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dauoL7U7zEU
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>(Claude Shannon was the sole father of information theory, and one of
>the founding fathers of cryptology)

That's pretty cool!

Regards,
Tony

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JC Morrice - 28 Oct 2008 13:57 GMT

>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dauoL7U7zEU
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>>>>> Enjoy!

I did, thank you...... but so impractical for everyday life.
Now, this guy....

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qC0l1DZtuTk

Love it :D

John

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Tony Jeffree - 28 Oct 2008 14:09 GMT

>Now, this guy....
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> http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qC0l1DZtuTk
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>Love it :D

Outstanding!

Regards,
Tony

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Adrian Godwin - 29 Oct 2008 12:04 GMT

>>Reminds me of this video :
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> "From the first Animusic DVD. Pipe Dream has been voted one of the 50
> greatest animation projects ever (by 3D World magazine). "

Yes, I know - it's one thing to make balls fall predictably in an
animation, but the machines in your links achieve it in real life.

-adrian

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Tony Jeffree - 29 Oct 2008 12:15 GMT

>Yes, I know - it's one thing to make balls fall predictably in an
>animation, but the machines in your links achieve it in real life.

I guess the difference is that there's no way that you will get
predictable trajectories from a ball hitting a taught wire (twice!)
whereas a simple ballistic trajectory is going to be reasonably
consistent if the spring tension etc. is constant.

Regards,
Tony

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