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Written by samsun
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Monday, 13 April 2009 |
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et si la solution pour semer des graines était dans les créations comme celle ci, ce qui avait commencé comme une lubie se trouve dans les entrails du net, et si le futur etait méchanique et pas éléctronique (trop fragile?)
http://www.strandbeest.com/film.html Theo Jansen is a contemporary artist who decided to give robots a real life. The Kinetic Sculptor, the Dutch engineer turned artist, studied science at the University of Delft (The Netherlands). He gave up school to become a painter. Then, in 1980, he built a big flying saucer which could fly (really)
The thing had 15 ft, flashing lights, beep sounds and flew over Delft. He also designed a light sensitive spray-gun which can paint an object or a surface. Well, since 1990, he has been working on a new creation.
During the last 15 years he has been creating 3 incredible wind-powered creatures. The Strandbeests are kinematic mechanical skeletons built entirely from lightweight plastic tubes that are moving using the force of the wind. The creatures evolved into several generations over the last twelve years. Some of them even gave birth to small robotic beings (not really). Theo Jansen actually wants to put the "animals" out in herds on the beaches so they can live their own lives. Animaris Geneticus Ondula is an amazing creature. It has about a hundred legs that move in the same way as the human legs do. The thing crawls (and I'm refering to the movement speed) like a fat-wood-giant-caterpillar moving sideways. Animaris Rhinocers Transport is a little bit smaller, has fewer but thicker legs, moves faster than the Ondula and uses the same principle of movement. Animaris Currens Ventosa has wings but does not fly (yet). Animaris Percipiere looks pretty much the same like Geneticus Ondula. You can check the videos here. Beware, this is unicorne chaser stuff! These creatures remind me of the tall and strange computer designed animals that appear in Linking Park's "Somewhere I Belong" video.
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