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Re: The "John's beard" thread!

Post by Lord_of_Sausage » Wed Oct 14, 2009 2:10 am

Eagle0600 wrote:
Ozymandias wrote:
Untadaike wrote:ehhhh...
ahhhh...
ohhhh
lets keep it goooooooooohing...
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Re: The "John's beard" thread!

Post by Eagle0600 » Wed Oct 14, 2009 2:24 am

You broke the combo!
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Re: The "John's beard" thread!

Post by Uberbeard » Wed Oct 14, 2009 6:09 am

C-c-c-c-combo breaker!!!
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Re: The "John's beard" thread!

Post by Untadaike » Wed Oct 14, 2009 11:20 am

This is turning into another randomness thread!
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Re: The "John's beard" thread!

Post by Glabbit » Wed Oct 14, 2009 11:39 am

Yes... Yes it is.
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Re: The "John's beard" thread!

Post by Lord_of_Sausage » Wed Oct 14, 2009 11:55 am

Uhm, how can a thread about John's beard turn into a randomness thread? i mean, it were kind random in the first place :P
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Re: The "John's beard" thread!

Post by invertin » Wed Oct 14, 2009 2:19 pm

It had a topic in it's randomness.

A topic that made little sense.

Speaking of sense- John's beard.

Let's talk about that.
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Re: The "John's beard" thread!

Post by yndaaa » Wed Oct 14, 2009 3:06 pm

John is not a robot :)

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Wol ... eDxUiUDSZg

or hes a Really great animation environment and character generator ;)
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Re: The "John's beard" thread!

Post by Tonjevic » Tue Oct 27, 2009 4:59 am

Who says robots can't dance?
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Re: The "John's beard" thread!

Post by Lord_of_Sausage » Tue Oct 27, 2009 2:49 pm

Dont robots usually do the robot?
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Re: The "John's beard" thread!

Post by Eagle0600 » Tue Oct 27, 2009 5:18 pm

Humans usually do the robot. Robots would have just as much trouble with that as any other dance.
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Re: The "John's beard" thread!

Post by tokage » Thu Oct 29, 2009 5:53 am

That's not really true. The problems robots are having with dancing are
1) balancing problems: It is hard to prevent them from falling.
2) trajectory prolems: complicated fluid movements have to use complicated joints and are harder to program than straightforward linear movements.

The robot dance only uses linear movements, so the trajectory problems to be solved are much simpler. The balancing still could be a problem though, but also gets simplified a bit I guess.
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Re: The "John's beard" thread!

Post by Assaultman67 » Thu Oct 29, 2009 9:45 am

I would say that the joints aren't so much of the problem as the "balance" is ...

A robot's "sense of balance" is extremely process intensive ... and in general, i think that alot of people in robotics have a tendancy to oversimplify it ...

I suppose it would be possible to make a algorithm that could evaluate the physics of of the robots movement to determine what kind of movements it could do ... some robots have movements pre-programmed ... like an animation ...
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Re: The "John's beard" thread!

Post by Eagle0600 » Fri Oct 30, 2009 4:03 am

I know what problems robots have with dancing. Trajectory isn't it. That's high-school level mathematics. Trust me, I'm in high-school. Balance is the only problem, which would be a BIG problem with almost any dance. Still, robots can get around even that issue. My comment still stands either way.
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Re: The "John's beard" thread!

Post by Assaultman67 » Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:05 am

Eagle0600 wrote:I know what problems robots have with dancing. Trajectory isn't it. That's high-school level mathematics. Trust me, I'm in high-school. Balance is the only problem, which would be a BIG problem with almost any dance. Still, robots can get around even that issue. My comment still stands either way.
Haha, trust me ... you only think you know ...
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