Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #04057
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Dave Hrynkiw dave@solarbotics.com
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 09:03:31 -0600
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: symet with head?
At 02:32 AM 5/31/1999 , Darrell Johnson wrote:
>To me it (the smaller bot) seems as if it's a symet with an
>attached light seeking head.. At the beginning of the scene you can see
>the head rapidly swinging back and forth, then it stops and the symet
>part kicks..
.
.
.
>Has anyone ever experimented with this type of thing? (besides Mark) It
>seems like a very unusual way to steer a bot around.. (probably not
>really all that effective)
Yup, you've got it about right. I've seen it, but haven't heard Mark say
much about it. I think the idea was to set the head's weight so it forced
the Symet to move in a particular direction.
Regards,
Dave
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