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Robotics and Animation?

Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,418
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I'm watching a course on robotics, details here:

https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/robotics

Some of the topics remind me of animation topics, like inverse kinematics, degrees of freedom & limits for joints, etc.  One of the videos in particular reminded me of this fave oldie "Animusic - Drum machine".  The motions are actually driven by the MIDI code for the music (MIDI is actually a communication system, no sounds, just instructions to other devices like synthesizers on what sounds to play, when, etc.)

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  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,388

    Looks like a great course.  Enjoy, and give updates.

  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,418

    Diomede said:

    Looks like a great course.  Enjoy, and give updates.

    It's pretty good, the Vassar prof is clearly a man immersed in something he loves to fiddle with.  Mostly shot in the robotics lab with him demonstrating, building and disassembling various "robots".  A recurring cast member is the Roomba, which he sees as a great example of many robotic principles and hardware elements (he explains as he dissects one).  Another is "Baxter", a large humanoidish critter that ought to have its own TV show.  laugh

  • RuudLRuudL Posts: 226

    Maybe you are already knowledgeable about PyCarrara capabilities. If not and if you're interested in doing an animation with MIDI as a basis for the timeline, then my suggestion would be to take a look at PyCarrara. It comes with sample scene files that demonstrate just that.

     

  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,418

    RuudL said:

    Maybe you are already knowledgeable about PyCarrara capabilities. If not and if you're interested in doing an animation with MIDI as a basis for the timeline, then my suggestion would be to take a look at PyCarrara. It comes with sample scene files that demonstrate just that.

    No, I was not aware of it, sounds really intriguing, thanks.  I actually did contact the creator of Animusic years ago about making his MIDI driven animation software available for purchase (MIDIMotion?), but he was not interested in all the effort to publish, support, etc.  But PyCarrara sounds interesting, I found more here from the inimitable Dartanbeck:

    https://www.dartanbeck.com/carrara-zone/carrara-info/carrara-plugins/frederic-rible

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 39,992

    also grab https://github.com/wyskoj/midis2jam2 for a poor mans Animusic

  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,418

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    also grab https://github.com/wyskoj/midis2jam2 for a poor mans Animusic

    Looks like another fun app.  So many toys, so little time.   cheeky

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 10,385

    How is the course going?

  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,418

    Headwax said:

    How is the course going?

    I had to stop and think, what course?  Oh, yeah, Robotics.  It was pretty good, a little more on the tinkerer side than heavy theory.  I'm a dozen or more courses past that (I watch while I ride the stationary bike every morning).  Currently this one:

    https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/understanding-the-periodic-table

    I have a degree in chemical engineering, but like a lot of science courses, not a lot of depth in this topic.  Pretty interesting, did you know that at one time aluminum was considered more valuable than gold or silver?  A French emporer used aluminum tableware at the most important table, with lesser tables using gold and silver.  Then they learned how to recover aluminum in large quantities ...  And only an estimated 30 grams of Francium exist on Earth at any given time, so that would make some really valuable tableware. 

    I'm planning to win "Jeopardy!" some day. cheeky

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 10,385

    Ha ha good luck a friend of mine did mastermind and his topic was so boring I am afraid to invite him for dinner lest he talks about it at length

  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,418

    I had to look up "Mastermind", which I don't think is shown here in the US (there is a show titled "Master Minds" which I think is different).  A lot of the sample topics looked boring, but not all. It reminded my wife of this: "Psychologist [and syndicated newspaper columnist] Dr. Joyce Brothers put her boxing trivia to the test and came away with $64,000 on October 27, 1957. Brothers, who was appearing on the [US] game show The $64,000 Challenge, took the top prize, competing against a team of seven boxers on boxing lore." 

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 10,385

    Oh dear I see :

    from wiki 

    Brothers died on May 13, 2013, at her home in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Lisa Brothers Arbisser, her daughter, said that boredom was the cause.

  • StezzaStezza Posts: 8,731

    I auditioned for Sale of the Century back in the 80's but never got called back sad

    a few weeks ago me and the missus watched the 1% show ( GB version ) and I answered all the questions even the 1% question.... that's my claim to fame coollaugh

  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,418

    Headwax said:

    Oh dear I see :

    from wiki 

    Brothers died on May 13, 2013, at her home in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Lisa Brothers Arbisser, her daughter, said that boredom was the cause.

    Strange cause of death.  I can usually avoid boredom, even if it's just browsing YouTube.  "The exact total size of YouTube's content is not public, but estimates suggest it is in the exabytes. Millions of hours of video are uploaded daily ... "  (Google AI)

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