24-07-2007, 13:38
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I live for the details.
 FRC #3620 (Average Joes) Team Role: Engineer
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Rookie Year: 1996
Location: Southwestern Michigan
Posts: 3,646
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Re: Strandbeest
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Originally Posted by dlavery
[IMG]Theo Jansen's work[/url] is incredible. Is it art? Engineering? Science? All of the above? I have no idea, and am not sure I care. I just know it is incredibly cool and exciting to watch. I want to see it, watch it work, witness the monkey-link action, and be mesmerized by the fluid motion as it moves over the sand.
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I'd call it a study in natural philosophy. Before being told that Strandbeest are modern, my first thought on seeing a sketch of one would have been that is must be a Leonardo da Vinci creation.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
 since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)
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