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1968 ASCII Animation from Russia
- huhtenberg 17y agoAny bets on when technologizer.com will be joining HN's domain blacklist?
- cema 17y agoA great story behind this animated film is that it was calculated using differential equations which describe the movement of the cat's body parts. One of the programmers (N. Konstantinov) described how it was done in a recent online publication. There is some discussion on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O4mm3hXNgA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O4mm3hXNgA) but the most interesting parts I could find online are in Russian. For instance, here (http://www.etudes.ru/ru/mov/kittie/ http://www.etudes.ru/ru/mov/kittie/) is a Russian abstract of the paper describing it in Problemy Kibernetiki (Problems of Cybernetics), back from 1974, with a link to the full Russian paper. I was thinking about translating portions of it, but then decided it would not do it a favor; perhaps someone will come up with a full translation? Incidentally, N. Konstantinov is more widely known (in Moscow, anyway) as the leading force behind the system of mathematical schools, loosely similar to magnet schools in the US (I am sure most developed countries have something similar as well). If you meet a mathematician, physicist, or computer scientist who graduated from a high school in Moscow, chances are it was one of these.
- huhtenberg 17y agoWhat schools are these? I mean their numbers. Just curious.
- cema 17y ago57, 91, 179, etc. I am talking about mathematical classes, some of these schools have been offering more (biological, journalistic, etc).
- huhtenberg 17y agoOK, I assumed 57 was on the list, that's why I asked. Just never knew who its "founder" was.