Contributor Tony Nemo Posted October 28, 2013 Contributor Report Share Posted October 28, 2013 http://www.chonday.com/Videos/the-writer-automaton 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taros Posted October 29, 2013 Report Share Posted October 29, 2013 wow... Really a masterpiece. I am shure this skills can't be found anymore today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor BeatKitano Posted October 29, 2013 Contributor Report Share Posted October 29, 2013 Pretty impressive. Especially with the part recognizing the shapes of the letter and the possibility of custom writing. Damn impressive work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Javis Posted October 29, 2013 Report Share Posted October 29, 2013 That is, imho, the most astonishing piece of human engineering. The years of planning that must have taken to bfing all of those ideas together. That multi-cam shaft, couple with the custom plates... It's really, really amazing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member michalis Posted October 29, 2013 Advanced Member Report Share Posted October 29, 2013 Amazing and beautiful. Engineering at its best. Thank you for the link! However, it has little to do with modern computing. It is closer on how an artist thinks though, An animator by example. On the other hand, the way ancient civilizations could bring water in their fields… this may looks closer to a CPU. What innovations are the ancestors of modern computing? The ancestors of Cybernetics? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member chingchong Posted October 30, 2013 Advanced Member Report Share Posted October 30, 2013 Reminded me of "Syberia" Adventure-Game Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosan Posted October 30, 2013 Report Share Posted October 30, 2013 Syberia ! ohh...memories and... The invention of Hugo Cabret' automaton too ---------------------- Modern automaton: Paul the robot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member wave of light Posted October 30, 2013 Advanced Member Report Share Posted October 30, 2013 Wow. To be able to backwardly construct those motions is an amazing achievement. To bring it all together in that way is mind blowing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member The Candy-floss Kid Posted November 2, 2013 Advanced Member Report Share Posted November 2, 2013 Virtual Model of the Antikythera Mechanism by Michael Wright - made circa 100 BC, location - Syracuse a colony of Corinth and the home of Archimedes. Knowledge of Archimedes mechanical/gearing ingenuity is believed to have been kept safe after Roman decline by the islamic world >passed on to European clock makers >Automata > Machines Of The Industrial revolution..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosan Posted November 2, 2013 Report Share Posted November 2, 2013 the Antikythera ! wow yeah What a surprise Candy... you like to know about ancient technologies... cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member michalis Posted November 3, 2013 Advanced Member Report Share Posted November 3, 2013 Antikythera mechanism, indeed. A miracle. Almost unbelievable. Based on Archimedes, probably. Made in Syracuse, I'm not sure. The ship seems it was coming from Rhodos to Italy. After all, the mechanism wasn't the only treasure on this cargo. All these masterpieces of art, all this sculpting, these were coming from the east. Probably. We can never be sure. As we can't be sure about the Riace bronze warriors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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