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Posted: 8th Jul 2004
Well it's a start and a good one at that. A 3rd dimension'd be usefull for when things get a bit more complicated or even a seperate front view. Well done!

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Posted: 8th Jul 2004
d'ya know if anyone here did this? Or was it you Custom???
When do we get to control _The Dude_???

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Posted: 8th Jul 2004
Nice! Could do with perhaps having the hands colour coded as well and move a bit smoother... but nice!

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Posted: 8th Jul 2004
do you know who made it? was it mike?

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Posted: 8th Jul 2004
no idea where it comes from or who made it. I just saw the link from the Bristol Fire thread and put it into here.

Psi might know who it is that made it?

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Posted: 8th Jul 2004
Ah, yes, i randomly found this yesterday - it's [Old link] Homepage I really liked it, even though there arn't really very many moves available - nevertheless very usefull for beginners



Only on monday or so garthy and i were talking about coding up a poi simulator. Not just for displaying moves in 2D/3D (although that would already be sweet), but maybe even to be able to create new moves by actually simulating the poi in a physical model - although the latter is asking for a lot of work, so it's no more than a dream at the moment !! but it would be like the numerous juggling programs into which you can type any siteswap pattern and it'll juggle it for you (even if the move is actually practically impossible to do)



Mike

Posted: 8th Jul 2004
cheres Mike...and thanks White Raven!!

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Posted: 9th Jul 2004
Always wanted to make a similar thing meself. Maybe i'll have a crack at it.



That's a really good start. I was getting completely bogged down with the physics of it all but it's not that tricky really.



What I'd really like is a physical model made in director. I had a meeting with a 3d web developer i know and he reckons he can do it. Thing is he's a flakey hippy, and a genius. But he hasn't lifted a finger in almost a year



Thing with this page is that i think it's all animated. What you need is to program little functions in actionscript for separate patterns. Trickier, but not nearly as much as programing the physics in director



If poiple really want a little flash engine to animate poi patterns then i'm be up for the challenge. My thinking and understanding is a whole lot clearer these days and i reckon i could produce the goods



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Posted: 9th Jul 2004
Hmm, i've got a working rigid body dynamics engine i coded a while ago for something totally unrelated to this, but i reckon one could adapt it to simulate poi (or staff) - bendy socks could easily be modelled by non-penetrable beads connected by harmonic springs. That could even simulate hyperloops ...

But i agree, the first step would be some easy way to encode poi patterns and a program to display them....

Will have a think ..


Mike

Posted: 9th Jul 2004
you guys are far too geeky for your own good....but I love it

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Posted: 9th Jul 2004

Posted: 9th Jul 2004

WhiterRaven is is my friend, he is from Slovakia, so close to
me and the page he did is really cool, I let him know about HOP

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Posted: 9th Jul 2004
sooo nice this is..: o) thanx for the feedback guys... I have posted this into the videos section some time ago also..: o)

I WAS thinking of making a simulator but I haven´t really found or been able to think up anything similar to the system that jugglers have... What I´m thinking of now would be to make transitions between tricks so you could click up the order of tricks you´d like the Dude to spin and he´d spin them along with transitions but I´m still lacking some flash experience + my flash mx which is circulating somewhere around my town.. : o/ Nevermind!! Be sure to post any ideas you´d like me to add and I´ll see what I can do...

BTW.. I´d like to see it make an isolated hyperloop too..; o))

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Posted: 10th Jul 2004
Could you make it 3D so the viewer could rotate around it to get a really good view of the moves. Then you could teach poi to idiots!

Oh wait, someone already did...

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Posted: 11th Jul 2004
What the H... is a hyper-loop???