strandbeest evolution
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN links it in Strandbeest threads as a showcase of the eerily smooth, wind-driven walking creatures.
What it is
Theo Jansen shows many of his Strandbeests, wind-powered walking kinetic sculptures, set to Khachaturian's Spartacus. It presents his work since 1990 on creating new forms of life on beaches.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2016 to 2022.
What Hacker News said
Recommends papandada · 2022-07 · on “Strandbeest: Kinetic PVC Beach Animals”
I'd been watching a lot of visual effects content on YouTube and assumed that's what this was when it popped up on my feed, initially -- eerily smooth, seemingly impossible walking exoskeletons : [this video] Wikipedia page on a linkage the inventor uses for the legs: [LINK]
Cites YeGoblynQueenne · 2016-06 · on “Can computers become conscious?: My reply to Roger Penrose”
>> “give me a big enough computer and the relevant initial conditions, and I’ll simulate the brain atom-by-atom.” Nuh-huh. You can't keep blaming it all on the hardware. Every year there's bigger and bigger computers and more and more people who claim they'll do better next year, when there's bigger computers. Well, it just ain't gonna happen. Fascinating intelligence that eats our most powerful artificial one for breakfast is all around us, and it runs on as little as five ganglia. Look at insects. They don't even have brains. They may not know calculus, they may be completely incapable of even acquiring the concept of a mathematical operation, but they are autonomous and viable in a harsh,
Cites Doxin · 2019-06 · on “Paper Strandbeest Is Strong Enough to Walk”
I'm sure it would be possible. Theo Jansen himself created a wind-powered one out of cardboard: [this video]