Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #08457
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Gadagada@aol.com
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 23:37:58 EST
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Lets Hypothesise...
In a message dated 12/19/99 11:30:26 PM Eastern Standard Time,
richard@cqc.com writes:
<< When you hear a noise, you can't make
an accurate assessment of it's distance from you. You're lucky if you can
even tell the direction it's really coming from. We make no distance
measurements when we hear things. I don't really think that we make any
visual measurements unless we're specifically trying to do so.
The way we navigate through our world is what I call the "Second star to the
right, and straight on 'till morning" system. We pay little attention to
distances and such things. We see something interesting, we go that way
until we see it better. There's no real measurement involved. That's why
we need maps and such things.
>>
If any of this was true, then we would all have one eye and one ear. The
truth is that distance is quite an important factor in navigating our world.
We have two eyes and two ears so we can triangulate distances.
Gary
8458 Sun, 19 Dec 1999 22:28:40 -0700 [alt-beam] Biped update Ian Hey, Thanks for all your help and ideas. I spent about 4 hours today
building the top half of it... Wait... I need a name. Lets see...........
Ok, "SyMan". SyMan it is. Anyway I built the top part and down to the lower
leg. The knee motors are already on. I just need to do the hardest part. The
ankle joint motor and the connection from the top part of the leg down to
the foot. Maybe I'll get some photos on my web site tomorrow. Thanks again.
Laterz
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