Wow! This serves to remind me that humans were pretty damn smart 2000 years ago. Great video and I love the music!
December 11, 2010 5:56 PM
[Image] This is unbelievably cool! An Apple Software Engineer (big surprise) named Andrew Carol has successfully recreated "the famous Antikythera Mechanism, created by ancient Greeks in 100 B.C. as a way of predicting astronomical events like eclipses" out of LEGO (as documented in a stop-motion film, no less). The interview is very interesting; it's a discussion that would be fruitful even if it was just an intriguing hypothetical in a discussion of machines and the guy hadn't actually gone ahead and done it (Using LEGO!!!) Counting gear teeth, no less...
"More LEGO STOPMOTION Goodies For Octopunk: Apple Engineer Recreating 2000-Year-Old Computer Using Lego"
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That is so fantastic! I love this line from the film:
"Pretty impressive for a bunch of plastic blocks."
It captures the infinite possibilities.
December 11, 2010 8:16 AM
That was so cool! I wasn't expecting the movie to be so high-end; they had to remove a lot of fly rigs in post to make that work.
And I know the animator, too. Talented guy.
December 11, 2010 9:52 AM
Wow! This serves to remind me that humans were pretty damn smart 2000 years ago. Great video and I love the music!
December 11, 2010 5:56 PM