{"id":1279,"date":"2009-05-04T16:52:46","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T08:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2009-05-04T16:52:46","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T08:52:46","slug":"kinematic-sculpture-in-flash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2009\/05\/04\/kinematic-sculpture-in-flash\/","title":{"rendered":"Kinematic sculpture in Flash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While musing over <a href=\"http:\/\/gamejam.org\">GameJam<\/a>, I made this basic flash program to explore an idea. Here it is:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"270\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/jansen.swf\"><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Instructions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Keypad &#8216;up&#8217; to increase counter-clockwise rotation<\/li>\n<li>Keypad &#8216;down&#8217; to increase clockwise rotation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note: for some reason it takes a little while for one of the legs to pop into place.<\/p>\n<p>I was originally inspired by the <a href=\"http:\/\/clockworkrobot.com\/horse\/\">clockwork horse kinematic sculpture<\/a> which I saw a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y7usX-f97Os\">video<\/a> of. The final design is more directly based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tB_WY9ht_B8\">this video of a matlab simulation<\/a> of one of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Theo_Jansen\">Theo Jansen<\/a>&#8216;s fundamental <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strandbeest.com\/\">Strandbeest<\/a> designs.<\/p>\n<p>The theme for the current GameJam is &#8220;A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.&#8221; and one of the following three words must be used: &#8220;sheep&#8221;, &#8220;scorched&#8221;, and &#8220;reflection&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I imagined: a mechanical sheep walking along a beach, collecting other sheep as it gathers pace; the reflection in the water indicating wolves in sheeps&#8217; clothing (to be avoided); the total score being a count of footsteps taken (rather than overall distance). The more sheep the more footsteps.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if I will take this any further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While musing over GameJam, I made this basic flash program to explore an idea. Here it is: Instructions: Keypad &#8216;up&#8217; to increase counter-clockwise rotation Keypad &#8216;down&#8217; to increase clockwise rotation Note: for some reason it takes a little while for one of the legs to pop into place. I was originally inspired by the clockwork &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2009\/05\/04\/kinematic-sculpture-in-flash\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kinematic sculpture in Flash&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-kD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1286,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions\/1286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}