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Many of these aren't animated... which gives me a great(?) idea for a new AI benchmark: "Animate the mechanical movement at this URL: ..." Way more telling tha

Many of these aren't animated... which gives me a great(?) idea for a new AI benchmark: "Animate the mechanical movement at this URL: ..." Way more telling that "draw a pelican on a bicycle"

worldsayshi 1mo ago
Also, set up formulas for calculating speed, torque, forces etc, of each system. Then create a modular simulation library and point and click simulator where all the component variants are covered so that the user can piece new systems together using those components.
- bonestamp2 1mo ago
  Also include sliders so parameters can be adjusted to see how it affects the mechanism (ex. wheel radius).
scrollop 1mo ago
Ironically, before coming to the comments I was thinking this would be a good dataset for llms to learn real world mechanics.
- MisterTea 1mo ago
  For me it's a great dataset to train my own brain. This way when I'm in the field and need to come up with a fix for something I can query my intellect and come up with a solution. No accounts, internet connection, or compute needed!
  - svobodamartin 1mo ago
    You would become one big walking practical-solution-providing library of expertise hiding in a human form.
    - MSKJ 1mo ago
      Oh no, Humans are gonna take the AI jobs!
KuriousCat 1mo ago
Tried it with chatgpt, and of course it failed. It showed pulleys and belt rotating in opposite directions for a simple two pulley coupling.
Animats 1mo ago
That's a good training set for animation AIs. Image generators are terrible at mechanical understanding at the moment. That needs to be fixed. AI videos of steam trains make a horrid mess of the engine linkages. Some wheels rotate in the wrong direction. Wheels rotate on stationary locomotives. Just keeping rails in parallel is beyond many Stable Diffusion type systems. Trackwork with switches is just rails all over the place. Some videos can't even keep the train wheels on the track. Pseudo-historical AI generated videos on machinery related subjects are awful. I saw one recently on rolling mills. There are blatant errors. Some rolls are turning in the wrong direction. Useless rolls facing sideways to the direction of slab travel. Gears that don't do anything. Steel entering rolls headed for the roller, not the gap.[1] That's for a rolling mill, which is a large but simple machine. AI misunderstanding of things with moving parts is even worse. There's now more AI slop about historical machinery in search results than real-world content. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItWeqMpDpkk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItWeqMpDpkk
bkyan 1mo ago
I got Fable to create the first 5 of these as 3d animations in a threejs sandbox: https://beta.mindcast.com/3d-mechanicals/ https://beta.mindcast.com/3d-mechanicals/ The sandbox was originally intended for video game effects, but it also works surprisingly well for these. --- Quick Start: [1] left-mouse-click to deploy a pulley [2] right-mouse-drag to change the camera angle [3] use the dropdown (lower-left) to switch the pulley type --- Original sandbox source: https://github.com/majidmanzarpour/threejs-vfx https://github.com/majidmanzarpour/threejs-vfx Original character source: https://github.com/achrefelouafi/SamuraiThirdPersonTemplateThreeJS https://github.com/achrefelouafi/SamuraiThirdPersonTemplateT...

Many of these aren't animated... which gives me a great(?) idea for a new AI benchmark: "Animate the mechanical movement at this URL: ..." Way more telling that "draw a pelican on a bicycle"

worldsayshi 1mo ago

Also, set up formulas for calculating speed, torque, forces etc, of each system. Then create a modular simulation library and point and click simulator where all the component variants are covered so that the user can piece new systems together using those components.

bonestamp2 1mo ago
Also include sliders so parameters can be adjusted to see how it affects the mechanism (ex. wheel radius).

scrollop 1mo ago

Ironically, before coming to the comments I was thinking this would be a good dataset for llms to learn real world mechanics.

MisterTea 1mo ago
For me it's a great dataset to train my own brain. This way when I'm in the field and need to come up with a fix for something I can query my intellect and come up with a solution. No accounts, internet connection, or compute needed!
- svobodamartin 1mo ago
  You would become one big walking practical-solution-providing library of expertise hiding in a human form.
  - MSKJ 1mo ago
    Oh no, Humans are gonna take the AI jobs!

KuriousCat 1mo ago

Tried it with chatgpt, and of course it failed. It showed pulleys and belt rotating in opposite directions for a simple two pulley coupling.

Animats 1mo ago

That's a good training set for animation AIs. Image generators are terrible at mechanical understanding at the moment. That needs to be fixed. AI videos of steam trains make a horrid mess of the engine linkages. Some wheels rotate in the wrong direction. Wheels rotate on stationary locomotives. Just keeping rails in parallel is beyond many Stable Diffusion type systems. Trackwork with switches is just rails all over the place. Some videos can't even keep the train wheels on the track. Pseudo-historical AI generated videos on machinery related subjects are awful. I saw one recently on rolling mills. There are blatant errors. Some rolls are turning in the wrong direction. Useless rolls facing sideways to the direction of slab travel. Gears that don't do anything. Steel entering rolls headed for the roller, not the gap.[1] That's for a rolling mill, which is a large but simple machine. AI misunderstanding of things with moving parts is even worse. There's now more AI slop about historical machinery in search results than real-world content. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItWeqMpDpkk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItWeqMpDpkk

bkyan 1mo ago

I got Fable to create the first 5 of these as 3d animations in a threejs sandbox: https://beta.mindcast.com/3d-mechanicals/ https://beta.mindcast.com/3d-mechanicals/ The sandbox was originally intended for video game effects, but it also works surprisingly well for these. --- Quick Start: [1] left-mouse-click to deploy a pulley [2] right-mouse-drag to change the camera angle [3] use the dropdown (lower-left) to switch the pulley type --- Original sandbox source: https://github.com/majidmanzarpour/threejs-vfx https://github.com/majidmanzarpour/threejs-vfx Original character source: https://github.com/achrefelouafi/SamuraiThirdPersonTemplateThreeJS https://github.com/achrefelouafi/SamuraiThirdPersonTemplateT...