Pyrotex Posted August 20, 2008 Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 New Level 8 (Back and Forth) -- and keeping it in the Zone, with only 4 wheels. Elegant ITZ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrotex Posted August 20, 2008 Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 Bzzt-Click... Does not compute.... Response non-sequitor...Bzzt-ClickThat's what you PAIRAFTGFZ's always say. :naughty: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janus Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 New Level 8 (Back and Forth) -- and keeping it in the Zone, with only 4 wheels. Elegant ITZ Very nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janus Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 "Up the Stairs" by bypassing the stairs and keeping it in the Zone. You really have to "thread the needle" with the trajectory. Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janus Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 You can use the same idea to get over "The Wall". Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougF Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 Nicely done Janus. :coffee_n_pc: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrotex Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 "Up the Stairs" by bypassing the stairs and keeping it in the Zone. You really have to "thread the needle" with the trajectory....reminds me of the "bullet ballets" in that recent movie with Angelina Jolie, "Wanted". Very smooth, Janus. Aces. :coffee_n_pc: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janus Posted August 22, 2008 Report Share Posted August 22, 2008 "unpossible" keeping it "In the Zone" Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janus Posted August 22, 2008 Report Share Posted August 22, 2008 And from the Complicated to the very simple. "Around the Bend" using just a short rod and "In the Zone" Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game (you wouldn't believe the amount of tinkering it took to get this to work. Either the lower ball would move too slowly and wouldn't get out of the way in time, or the upper ball wouldn't hit the small ball right, causing it to stop short of the goal.) modest and freeztar 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeztar Posted August 22, 2008 Report Share Posted August 22, 2008 And from the Complicated to the very simple. "Around the Bend" using just a short rod and "In the Zone" Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game (you wouldn't believe the amount of tinkering it took to get this to work. Either the lower ball would move too slowly and wouldn't get out of the way in time, or the upper ball wouldn't hit the small ball right, causing it to stop short of the goal.) :naughty: :D :eek2: :eek2: That is so awesome! I *love* the simplistic models the best, and this, imho, is a show stopper! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrotex Posted August 22, 2008 Report Share Posted August 22, 2008 And from the Complicated to the very simple. "Around the Bend" using just a short rod and "In the Zone" Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game (you wouldn't believe the amount of tinkering it took to get this to work. Either the lower ball would move too slowly and wouldn't get out of the way in time, or the upper ball wouldn't hit the small ball right, causing it to stop short of the goal.)Janus,don't you have a job or something that occupies any of your time? :hyper: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBigDog Posted August 22, 2008 Report Share Posted August 22, 2008 And from the Complicated to the very simple. "Around the Bend" using just a short rod and "In the Zone" Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game (you wouldn't believe the amount of tinkering it took to get this to work. Either the lower ball would move too slowly and wouldn't get out of the way in time, or the upper ball wouldn't hit the small ball right, causing it to stop short of the goal.)WOW! That is ... WOW! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrotex Posted August 22, 2008 Report Share Posted August 22, 2008 "unpossible" keeping it "In the Zone" Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game Janus,I noticed on watching this execute several times, that there was a "loose" blue rod which was only connected to one wheel, and essentially just hung loose during the entire process. It is afixed to the rear wheel of the little cart on top of the sliding ramp. I deleted that one rod. It substantially (IMHO) improves the performance of your solution!!!! :hyper: However, there is ALSO a short brown rod attached ONLY to that SAME wheel, and also appears to contribute nothing. Do NOT delete that one, or your solution will no longer be ITZ. :D :lol: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janus Posted August 22, 2008 Report Share Posted August 22, 2008 Janus,I noticed on watching this execute several times, that there was a "loose" blue rod which was only connected to one wheel, and essentially just hung loose during the entire process. It is afixed to the rear wheel of the little cart on top of the sliding ramp. I deleted that one rod. It substantially (IMHO) improves the performance of your solution!!!! :hyper: However, there is ALSO a short brown rod attached ONLY to that SAME wheel, and also appears to contribute nothing. Do NOT delete that one, or your solution will no longer be ITZ. :D :lol: :lol: It took some tweaking to get this to work, and some of the adjustments had to be pretty fine. The blue rod was most likely left over from a previous tweak attempt. The "weight" of the cart had to be just right or it would get to the end of the ramp before the ramp reached the upper level. Once I got it to work right, I didn't want to touch it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janus Posted August 22, 2008 Report Share Posted August 22, 2008 Janus,don't you have a job or something that occupies any of your time? :hyper: Sure do! I do this in my spare time. Another simple one. "Mind the Gap" with three rods and keeping it in the zone: http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=746339 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrotex Posted August 22, 2008 Report Share Posted August 22, 2008 ...Another simple one. "Mind the Gap" with three rods and keeping it in the zone:Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game Three rods!?!?!?!?!? Anybody could do that. But can you bounce the Pinkie off the cushion and drop it ITZ? Hah! Cushion Shot freeztar 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeztar Posted August 22, 2008 Report Share Posted August 22, 2008 Three rods!?!?!?!?!? Anybody could do that. But can you bounce the Pinkie off the cushion and drop it ITZ? Hah! Cushion Shot Nice one. But I'd be more impressed if you bounced it off the big green ball first. :( Here's a variation on three sticks:Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game Pyrotex 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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