The amazing and cool video thread

[motoraza]

Steering wheel breaks at 130mph. Must see. Mild language warning.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilaBdBCUaOo">YouTube Link</a>

I want his t-shirt

 

[Jedi2016]

must be fake.

Shoes are already tied, extra laces run down the pants that he pulls out of view when he does the "shake".

Ask him to do it while wearing shorts. Then I'll be impressed.

 

[Boffin]

Not sure if posted, but what happens if you put 32 discordant metronomes on a movable platform:

 

[AOS-]

A short named "Giving".

 

[axletramp]

The world's largest walking robot.

 

[AOS-]

Machinegun feet.



To think, after all that, he still got graded with a "C" in the game.

 

[zedextreme8177]

What happens when you put a top fuel dragster engine in a boat? This...

 

[nk4e]

Machinegun feet.



To think, after all that, he still got graded with a "C" in the game.

I can barely do Drop out on heavy now... O_O

 

[Bopop4]

 

[failing_finn]

Awesome because it's a 7M-GTE. 👍


P.s. See what it can do: standing mile

 

[Dean]

To think, after all that, he still got graded with a "C" in the game.

In that game it surely has to be almost impossible to get an A...

 

[kennylmao]

 

[Encyclopedia]

What a nice kitty.

 

[Wiegert]

Killing the post-production process here.

 

[Solid Lifters]

Like we all didn't know this would happen? http://www.wimp.com/trafficlights/

Proof government in control of things, in this case traffic, makes things far worse!!!

 

[zedextreme8177]

Nothing new, just take a look at Indian (or any South Asian roads) for that matter



Drivers generally tend to look and focus more, when there is random traffic coming at you from all directions

 

[terminator363]

After watching that video for a while tuk tuks seem like nothing out of the ordinary

 

[axletramp]

The way traffic flows like this always reminds me of some kind of organic living thing.

 

[Omnis]

Killing the post-production process here.

This is fantastic. So glad I didn't become an animator. 40k a year at Ringling would've been useless.

 

[Bopop4]

 

[Wiegert]

 

[TB]

^ I still like their BigDog better.

 

[Minty]

Until the Wildcat starts galloping it looks like it really needs to pee

 

[Sprite]

Architects Michael Hansmeyer and Benjamin Dillenburger are passionate about pushing the limits of 3-D design, and their latest algorithmically generated project, a room called Digital Grotesque, is composed of 260 million surfaces and 30 billion voxels, and takes up 78 gigabytes of hard drive space. Just rendering images of the stunningly detailed, 170-square-foot space took weeks, and when they searched for a 3-D printer that could produce their cavernous creation, none of the popular plastic printers could handle the load.

CAD files in hand, the designer duo set out in search of a machine that could accommodate their architectural ambitions and found a solution in a 3-D printer typically used to manufacture engine blocks. Larger than most cars, Voxeljet’s 3-D printers build models using silica sand and are capable of producing sandy sculptures that weigh up to 12 tons while maintaining a barely perceivable 0.13 millimeter layer thickness. These machines usually fabricate sand molds for investment casting. Their output is seen as a disposable byproduct, but Hansmeyer and Dillenburger coated the gritty components with a strengthening resin and treated them like giant sandstone bricks. “The limiting factor for us was no longer the dimensions of the printable space,” says Hansmeyer, “but the logistics of transporting and assembling the pieces.”

It took a year for the designers to find the right tools and fabricating the building blocks took over a month, but the massive, 9-foot tall, industrial-strength sand castle was assembled in just under a day with the help of a gantry crane and team of volunteers. The physical results are stunning, but for Hansmeyer the design process is equally impressive and was an attempt to visualize the answer to a simple question: “How could an architecture that is entirely designed by algorithms look?” Digital Grotesque looks like something that could have sprung from Antoni Gaudí’s drawing board, but the swirling, baroque shapes of the room are actually the results of a few simple equations, and Hansmeyer believes they “create an architecture that would otherwise be undrawable, or even inconceivable using traditional means.”

Despite its procedural pedigree, Hansmeyer still claims authorship over the design. “The architect is still very much the designer, not the computer,” he says, but the computational approach does change the creator’s role. Software allows for dozens of potential solutions to emerge which can then be fed back into the system to create more potential designs, but leaves the real skill is in editing the results. “The architect becomes the cultivator and moderator of these production processes and forfeits direct control of some attributes to gain control over others.”

Digital Grotesque is an amazing proof of concept, but Hansmeyer has only laid the cornerstone of what could ultimately be a cathedral built to the glory of computational design. “One of the most astonishing things, and something we’re still trying to get our head around, is that it costs the exact same amount to 3-D print a plain box as it does to print the most elaborate form conceivable,” he says. “The costs are the same, and the amount of time required is the same. It is only the outside dimensions that matter, so there is no longer any cost for complexity and no cost for ornament.”

Digital Grosteque pushed the limits of laptops and 3-D printer, but the pair of architects have big plans to 3-D print a house with details as fine as grains of sand. “It will be a house that looks like nothing we can imagine today, and is just within reach!” says Hansmeyer.

Sorry about the large copied article, but I thought it best explained how cool this thing is.

 

[Solid Lifters]

 

[Dan]

The E30 M3 from hell.

 

[turbolefty78]

Ummm,
1) That vid was just posted in this thread 2 pages ago(#138)
2) That's an M50, not M3(unless my glasses are finally, completely shot)

I'm just sayin.

 

[Dan]

Ummm,
1) That vid was just posted in this thread 2 pages ago(#138)
2) That's an M50, not M3(unless my glasses are finally, completely shot)

I'm just sayin.

Well, I haven't checked the previous pages. I wasn't aware.

 

[turbolefty78]

I'm not a mod so it doesn't really matter to me. I'm just letting you know in case you wanted to pull that post.

 

[terminator363]

Reminds me of that Absolut Vodka commercial Swedish House Mafia music video.