Algodoo

mattyao - Thanks!

By the way, I deleted the previous comments between you and me because they don't need to stay posted so that everyone can read them. It's all cleared up now!

mattyao - I don't understand why you are asking me if your scene was good. What do you mean by "good"?

And what do you mean by "It's almost 2015, so be quick!". What is supposed to happen in 2015?

Sorry, but it still makes no sense. Maybe you could explain what this scene is about. I press numbers and words pop up. So, what is that about?

No, you still do not make any sense, mattyao. But that's Okay. We don't need to keep chatting about it. Just forget about it.

There are TWO stretched hinges attached to the wheel, and I think they may be interfering with each other. Are there supposed to be two on the wheel, or was that a mistake?

The angular velocity of the circle that the script is referring to is a negative number because it's rotating in reverse direction. The script seems to work if you change it to the following:

g1 := Scene.entityByGeomID((readable(owner)).geom0);
(g1.angVel) < -20 ? {
motorTorque = 90000
} : {
motorTorque = 0
}

Gent - He's not using Bend in the hinge that contains the script. He's using it like a regular motor.

Actually, he does have Bend = True, but since he's using it like a regular motor, he needs to set Bend to False!

Hmmmm.... not sure what causes that, but did you set Bend = False? If not, then there may be something weird going on with the Bend function especially since none of the Bend parameters have been set (they are NAN, which stands for Not A Number).

Great! I'm glad I was able to help!

Oh, Okay. Now I know why I don't get it. It's because I do not listen to daft punk music!

If you wrote the script, then why don't you know what it does?
The title and your description indicate that you are quite confused about it!

Would you like me to explain what it does? It's really quite simple and not weird at all.

Wow, what an awesome mechanism!

Yes, works good now. Pretty colors!

All of the mirrors fall down as soon as I start the scene!

Interesting and effective method of mixing the laser beams!

Yes, and LOTS of them! It's because the script that spawns the circles loops continuously in the postStep event. If it wasn't for the fact that timeToLive of each circle has been set to only a few seconds, the scene would probably crash after a short time because it would create zillions of circles that would not automatically get deleted.

So, that's really all this scene does. Nothing weird at all. Just worthless!

Well, dylan7.... I have a suggestion for you. Because you apologized for this scene, and you asked that I "don't make a report on it", you obviously think very little of it, and you worry that other people will not like it. If you agree that your scene is so bad, then why did you even bother to upload it? That doesn't make any sense to me!

Anyhow, my suggestion for you is to spend a little more time on your scenes before uploading them. Take the time to do a careful job instead of rushing just to get something uploaded to Algobox. You do not get extra points for getting lots of scenes posted. It's much better to spend a few hours designing and building a really awesome scene than to quickly whip out a bunch of totally crap scenes that you spent maybe 5 minutes on. There are lots of 5 minute crap scenes on Algobox, and there are very few really awesome scenes. Try to be one of the people who make awesome scenes and you will be very proud of yourself! Other people will be impressed too!

I hope you learned something from my little rant!

Unfortunately, the way you drew the car (at an angle) makes it impossible to put a motor in it and make it drive around. Anyone entering a contest like this would want a side view or top view of the car so that they can put wheels that rotate and steer, and some sort of motor in it. The type of car that you made is only for display, like for a magazine ad or something.

Am I right?

Yes, of course! I took one of the cars into a blank scene and tried to do something with it, but was not able to. It's just a display, and cannot be made into something that actually works.

Maybe someone else could do something with it, but I honestly don't see how.

Good points! It will be interesting to see what people come up with.

$300,000,000? That's rather expensive for such a crap car! And only 1 mile per gallon of gas? Holy cow!

BTW - Nice pimp job!

Thanks, Phil. Well, in order to generate correct words all the time, I would need to store a dictionary of all the words, and the scene would randomly select those words. I think it's more fun and interesting to just allow the Universe to select the words, even though most of them are nonsense words!

BUT.... there are lots of different ways to create randomness. In the digital world, you can only create "pseudo-randomness", because, although the results will appear random, they will eventually repeat. The randomness in this scene is generated by bouncing balls, which may not be efficient or random enough for a reasonable word generator. I'm sure that any one of the exceptional engineers here in Algodoo land (such as kilinich and s_noonan, and others) could do a much better job than I can of making a random word generator. I just "guessed" at how to do it!

Oh, and in order to create a word generator that produces more sensible results and less gibberish, the script would need to take into account things like rules for word structure, when to use double letters, etc. And you would have to teach it the difference between proper nouns and common nouns, if you want it to be "intelligent", but who would want to spend all that time designing such a word generator? I don't!

You did it right this time for the updated file. Good job!

Yes, your English is good, and I understood everything. And you are correct. Depending on how accurate you want the words to be will depend on how much time and effort it would take to design and program the script. This scene took me only a couple of hours to make, and then another hour to tweak it and modify it. I suspect to do a really good job of making random words without using a stored dictionary, would take a very long time, possibly many days or weeks.

That's what the engineers who designed and built the Titanic said after it crashed, split in two, and then sank. "Oops, I forgot to glue it!"

I'm in too.

THANKS!

Thanks guys!

Very clever! Nice job!

Nice job, but your other "X-ray Tree" is far superior. It's going to be a tough contender in the contest.