[Hermitt]

Has you guys seen this video? I got it in an email today. I don't know if it is real or an animation, but this is what was with the email.

***start pasted text***

This incredible machine was built as a collaborative effort
betweenThe Robert M. Trammell Music Conservatory and the Sharon Wick
School of Engineering at the University of Iowa.. Amazingly, 97% of the
machines' components came from John Deere Industries and Irrigation
Equipment of Bancroft, Iowa, yes farm equipment!

It took the team a combined 13,029 hours of set-up, alignment,
Calibration, and tuning before filming this video but as you can
see it Was WELL worth the effort.

It is now on display in the Matthew Gerhard Alumni Hall at the
University and is slated to be donated to the Smithsonian.
This is almost unbelievable. See how all of the balls wind up in
catcher cones

***end pasted text***

Just noticed a link to the animusic.com website, so it is an animation but
totally cool anyways

 

[cotdt]

fantastic music... but it looks CG rendered.

 

[PiccoloNamek]

My God! That vibraphone is from More Bells and Whistles!

Here is the one from the new video:

The balls shoot out of the horn in the middle and strike the bars.

And here is the one from More Bells and Whistles (which was made well over a decade ago!):

It's the exact same concept!

 

[n_maher]

If you want to see a real, very cool rube goldberg-type machine search for the honda "cog" commercial. And be sure to find the background info on it, it'll boggle the mind.

 

[GlendaleViper]

Very, very cool animation. Certainly didn't take the components and manpower as stated, although I would assume the work involved was easily 1000 hours or more. Thanks for the link!

 

[cotdt]

GlendaleViper, your avatar spooks me out

 

[GlendaleViper]

Quote:

Originally Posted by cotdt /img/forum/go_quote.gif GlendaleViper, your avatar spooks me out

Heheh. If you knew what it was from, you'd think otherwise. It's a drawing of "The Count" from a really old 70's kids show called the Hilarious House of Frightenstein, originally filmed in beautiful Hamilton, Ontario. Look it up. Had me almost putting milk and Cheerios through my nose this morning.

 

[Davesrose]

oh yeah...they've had a whole series of these animations for awhile: these are getting pretty old now. Basically the groundbreaking thing is that they programed the computers to animate the models with whatever music was being played. They didn't have animators animate those instruments.

haha....I looked that up, and turns out that caption and writeup is a hoax:

http://urbanlegends.about.com/librar...ic_machine.htm

The real animation company actually started off with Bells and Whistles that PiccoloNamek pointed out

http://www.animusic.com/company-history.html

HD video clip of another one of their animations!
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/guide...music2dvd.html

 

[PiccoloNamek]

So, it's from the same company? Good. I thought somebody had ripped off one of my favorite childhood memories!

Any way, More Bells and Whistles is the best. Nothing else compares: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA2hcJ3Owo4

 

[Davesrose]

Quote:

Originally Posted by PiccoloNamek /img/forum/go_quote.gif So, it's from the same company? Good. I thought somebody had ripped off one of my favorite childhood memories!

yep, the same! Looks like they're selling some DVDs of their animations now...the HD clip is pretty awesome: has more character-like animation.

oh, and if you want to watch even more by them....here's the whole YouTube directory!

http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...&search=Search

 

[colonelkernel8]

Ha, you can download that and watch it in real-time if you own a Radeon card, I have it on my computer. You can rotate around and stuff too.

Its Animusic.

http://ati.amd.com/developer/demos/r9700.html

First one.

Animusic makes new ones (http://www.animusic.com/) that are simply stunning.

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/guide...music2dvd.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3vS3LGH5gs

 

[colonelkernel8]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr5z2...elated&search=

 

[colonelkernel8]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNC6P...elated&search=

Just search Animusic on YouTube and be happy!