Kinetic sculpture

[Koda]

http://www.wimp.com/kineticsculpture/

If this doesn't blow your mind...

[Guy Birkin]

Great stuff. Here's Theo Jansen's site:
http://www.strandbeest.com/

[Le Berger]

so gracious and fluid

[machinefabriek]

About 15 years ago, Theo Janssen gave a presentation at my school. I was sooo impressed! Nice to see this again...

[Guy Birkin]

That must have been great fun to see Janssen at school!

This cybernetic sculpture is worth a look if you haven't seen it. The Senster has amazingly natural movement. Edward Ihnatowicz studied things like lobster claws to understand the mechanism. There's no audio on the clip, but you can see that it reacts to sound - it is attracted to quiet sounds (as if curious), and repelled by loud sounds (as if startled).

http://youtu.be/1jDt5unArNk

[mdoudin]

I just saw this thread and I watched the video and only though: wow. Very interesting experiments.

[mac]

oh. and here as well. his talk at TED. amazing.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/theo_jansen_creates_new_creatures.html

[mdoudin]

I just showed it to a friend and he'll probably won't sleep this night haha..