Title: This will blow your Engineering Mind !!! Source:
Youtube URL Source:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIABTxAAX90 Published:Mar 11, 2011 Author:Bad ass Billy Post Date:2011-03-11 18:23:41 by noone222 Keywords:None Views:468 Comments:10
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My pea brain was blasted by the engineering, timing --- I'd give it a 100 !
At first I thought that was real, but after awhile it seemed rather impossible for those balls to go where they were going on their own, and apparently it's a computer animation.
At first I thought that was real, but after awhile it seemed rather impossible for those balls to go where they were going on their own, and apparently it's a computer animation.
Even so, it's one hell of an animation.
Actually it is not impossible at all, just calculated force in the right direction would have sufficed to put the balls right where they wanted them to go.
Actually it is not impossible at all, just calculated force in the right direction would have sufficed to put the balls right where they wanted them to go.
It became a matter of which angle they would travel from the same hole, which velocity, and the repetition rate.
After seeing the circular arrangment of bells and the balls hitting them just right, and the conveyor belt over the drums that wasn't there before, I sort of figured it was animated. Looked it up, and that's the case.
What it comes down to is that it COULD be done perhaps with a maze of servos and airflow regulators to create electronically controlled air flow. That could possibly be used to do something similar to maybe a few of the scenes in the vid.
Even with a supercomputer though, calculating the exact airflow and the rate of insertion of the balls into the airflow, changing the direction of the airflow in rapid succession would be a daunting feat.
The project would certainly be in the millions with that sort of hardware, if the hardware were even available.