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Dynamite Contest :D

PostPosted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 2:05 am
by cdh473
Okay, here are the rules:
You must make a stick of dynamite that MUST be detonated by a simple blasting cap(thyme is allowed), and be VERY stable(support at least 100,000 kg w/o detonating). It must take down the demonstrative tower, without
getting more than a total of 2 pieces of debris outside of the demolition zone.
You may use up to 7 of your dynamite sticks. They must completely bring down the structure, without any pieces of the dynamite coming out of the demolition zone.
http://www.algodoo.com/algobox/details.php?id=30821
that is the demolition zone.

Point system-
Start at 100
-10 for each piece of debris that gets away
-10 for non-compactness
-10 for an unrealistically large explosion
-30 for not bringing the WHOLE tower down
-10 for not instantly bringing it down
-20 for no pancaking
-googolplex for cheating(attraction, deletion, pulling, etc.)

Happy Phunning/Algodooing!


Current Scores:
Sniperkasa-90%

Re: Dynamite Contest :D

PostPosted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 3:24 am
by daniels220
The tower is absurdly strong. Even an "unrealistically strong" explosion wouldn't break more than a couple of its hinges, and even then it's still held together by springs.

If you cut its strength by 10x, down to 10-15Nm break strength, the contest would become possible, but the springs would still make it impossible to totally destroy.

There are also loopholes in the rules. A Thyme-triggered attraction bomb (not repulsion, though) could collapse it quite easily, without doing any real damage (I did this, and then dragged the tower back upright. It stood just fine).

This could be a pretty decent contest, but the tower needs a great deal of work before it becomes anything other than exploit-the-loopholes.

Re: Dynamite Contest :D

PostPosted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 1:57 pm
by Sniperkasa
I agree. I even tried to create aprox 8600 balls ontop of each other with density 100.. tower did NOT fall.
I'd like this contest a lot, but its just.. too strong tower. Thats it :/

Re: Dynamite Contest :D

PostPosted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 7:26 pm
by daniels220
No actual explosive will damage the tower. The hinges will stretch several times the width of the tower before they break, so pretty much anything will just escape between the parts of the tower.

What does work is to create a rectangle above the tower, and suddenly drag it down way under the ground, leaving the tower squished like 50ft into the ground. And that only breaks half the hinges.

Re: Dynamite Contest :D

PostPosted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 2:17 am
by cdh473
lol, i must've gotten a saving error :P
oops, well i've got to fix that.
http://www.algodoo.com/algobox/details.php?id=30856
there, that's how it was supposed to be.
As for the springs, don't worry about them, just pretend they're not there.

Re: Dynamite Contest :D

PostPosted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 6:24 pm
by Sniperkasa
Image
Author: Sniperkasa
Title: Dynamite Contest Entry
File Size: 60.61 kB
Rating: Image
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My entry :D Description and manuals at Algobox :) YEY first entry :D

Re: Dynamite Contest :D

PostPosted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 2:04 pm
by Sniperkasa
Cdh, I see you gave my score at algobox, but I'd also like to see where the points came from, if possible :D

Re: Dynamite Contest :D

PostPosted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 9:12 pm
by cdh473
You got a 70.
Start at 100%
-10 for an unrealistically large explosion(just barely ;) )
-20 for no pancaking
good job.

Re: Dynamite Contest :D

PostPosted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:36 pm
by Sniperkasa
May i get another shot at this :D ? since there was no limit to that :)

Re: Dynamite Contest :D

PostPosted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:57 pm
by cdh473
sure, you can enter as many times as you like :D
your highest scoring entry will be the only one that gets counted.

Re: Dynamite Contest :D

PostPosted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 7:36 pm
by Sniperkasa
Image
Author: Sniperkasa
Title: Dynamite entry nr2
File Size: 60.13 kB
Rating: Image
ImageImage
Next entry :D (looks same.. but its more effective!)

Re: Dynamite Contest :D

PostPosted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 12:16 am
by cdh473
That one definitely pancakes it. XD
+20 from the last one, so that's a 90.
:D

Re: Dynamite Contest :D

PostPosted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 6:57 am
by Sniperkasa
woohoo I'm leading xD
And wait.. do you call that unrealistically large 0.o ?

Re: Dynamite Contest :D

PostPosted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 12:26 am
by cdh473
yes, a normal dynamite would not make NEAR as much initial damage, they are placed strategically so that they will just weaken the structure and make it crumble, not actually destroy the building itself directly.

Re: Dynamite Contest :D

PostPosted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 1:52 pm
by Sniperkasa
Ach so. Well I knew that but its meant to be very compact so that you would'nt need as many of them, instead an very concentrated one :) But... If I get time, I'll maybe make another one... :thumbup:

Re: Dynamite Contest :D

PostPosted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 8:58 pm
by cdh473
Sniperkasa wrote:Ach so. Well I knew that but its meant to be very compact so that you would'nt need as many of them, instead an very concentrated one :) But... If I get time, I'll maybe make another one... :thumbup:

Well, it's fine until someone tops your entry :)
You've got a 90!

But anyways, as soon as someone hits 100, I'm ending this.
It shouldn't continue then, that would be pointless.
You're almost there, sniperkasa.

Re: Dynamite Contest :D

PostPosted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 1:07 pm
by Sniperkasa
And if nobody scores higher.. when does this stop? And is there any reward?

Re: Dynamite Contest :D

PostPosted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 5:56 pm
by Username?
This isn't a good contest :(

Re: Dynamite Contest :D

PostPosted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 4:09 pm
by Rhett97
heres my scene...
Sorry i had to save as phunlet due to im at school using the demo...
yeah.....
so....

http://www.algodoo.com/algobox/details.php?id=31275

Re: Dynamite Contest :D

PostPosted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 1:08 am
by cdh473
Sniperkasa wrote:And if nobody scores higher.. when does this stop? And is there any reward?

Someone will get 100 ;)
If I'm wrong, it ends whenever I feel like ending it, which gives you guys a LOT of time.
The reward is two things:
1.)The personal satisfaction of winning(lol).
2.)Having a dynamite to use in your own stuff ;)

Re: Dynamite Contest :D

PostPosted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 2:14 am
by Dezzeron
cdh473 wrote:
Sniperkasa wrote:And if nobody scores higher.. when does this stop? And is there any reward?

Someone will get 100 ;)
If I'm wrong, it ends whenever I feel like ending it, which gives you guys a LOT of time.
The reward is two things:
1.)The personal satisfaction of winning(lol).
2.)Having a dynamite to use in your own stuff ;)


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Re: Dynamite Contest :D

PostPosted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 6:06 am
by Fujitsu
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