Computerworks

[undyingking]

This animated gif is just a wee thing, but I find it appealingly hypnotic, particularly on a Monday morning.

Comments

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I love that !

(Someone clearly had too much free time...)

[chrisvenus]

Are you aware that it fully wraps as well?

I first came across it in fullscreen format and its much more fun:

http://blueballfixed.ytmnd.com/

apart from having music.

Its almost spoilt for having seen the singleton already. It measn you are aware of where it wraps rather than going "OMG its huge!".

I think I decided that it was too much free time over a long period since you can see internal "blocks" in that that look like they would probably wrap on their own. eg in the bottom right you can see balls going off the right and bottom and coming on the top and left at the same time.

Its awesomely clever and must have had a lot of free time but I think its even cleverer that it is modular. Interesting would be to chop it up into chunks (if it is indeed all modular) and randomly assemble them on a page.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Mm, I linked to the single version so as to avoid the music. Yes, a random assembly would be great! I wonder if it's possible to get a long continuous ball path...

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

I suspect there are actually even sneakier things one could do involving modules which aren't square...

I almost made something like this once myself as a POV-Ray exercise (with each little machine being a primitive 3D thing) but then got distracted by another project. Might go back and finish it one day, though.

[sea-of-flame.livejournal.com]

Interesting would be to chop it up into chunks (if it is indeed all modular) and randomly assemble them on a page.

Oooh, like a point-and-click helter skelter assembly?

Not as much fun as trying to build up enough velocity to send marbles flying at dangerous speeds out of the end (why, yes, I was the sort of destructive child that would improvise with elastic bands and sellotape :)

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Should be easy enough to simulate that -- nice little Flash animation project for someone there!

[a-llusive.livejournal.com]

looks like the most frustrating Donkey Kong handheld ever!

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

I think I've seen this before but it is really nifty and you can get lost in it. ;o)

[vicarage.livejournal.com]

I'm a sucker for these things in science musesums, so it'll be be my screensaver now.

[jackfirecat.livejournal.com]

It hypnotised me, and suddenly it was time to go home. BAD thing for a Monday morning.