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Message #03504
To: Jean auBois aubois@trail.com, beam@corp.sgi.com
From: Dave Hrynkiw dave@solarbotics.com
Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 00:01:56 -0600
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Rollerbots (was: Star Wars Ep1...)
At 11:19 PM 5/21/1999 , Jean auBois wrote:
>:> Dave Hrynkiw wrote:
>:> >
>:> > ...has some neat stuff. Good to see that Lucas has some imagination when
>:> he
>:> > designed his robots. Gotta love that rollerbot,
>
>HIS rollerbot? Oh give me a break! M. C. Escher essentially came up with
>the concept -- see House of Stairs, created a mere 48 years ago, at
>
> http://www.WorldOfEscher.com/gallery/HouseOfStairs.html
>
>perhaps based in some way on what I've always heard called "roly-polies" or
>pillbugs, although there has been a more recent article about some critter
>that alternates between walking and rolling as a form of transportation.
>
>Lucas (or one of his minions) merely ripped off the idea.
Sure Zoz. BOY that looks just like the one I saw in Star Wars. Exactly it.
Yup. Uh-huh. I can see Mr. Lucas went to the library, ripped that picture
out of a book, and used it as a template for his heavy-gunned,
force-fielded robot in Episode 1.
Have you seen the flick? Get a life.
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