Re: Virtual Sandtable

Mathias ( telluris@netidea.com )
Tue, 19 May 1998 23:17:48 -0700

Matthew Redmond wrote:
>
> Hi Y'all.
>
> Is there anyone out there who knows how to write a program to simulate a
> resonating sandtable.
>
> It would do the following: Analyse a set of frequencies (eg from a radio
> telescope) and then produces the same type of interference pattern on
> screen that would be found if "played" on the sandtable (only with the
> ability to have different resolutions...but that's not the most important
> thing right now).
>
> I'm asking this because...well lets just say I wouldn't stake my life on my
> programming prowess.
>
> I have a few other people I could ask, but if anyone has any ideas..."I'm
> Listening".
>
> Thanks.
>
> MR.
I think this is a briliant idea (although my knowledge to get there is
rather scant). I'd love to know more about the applications you have in
mind.
This remindes me (less then more related to the subject) of a fellow
Doug Ruby
(http://alpha.mic.dundee.ac.uk/ft/crop_circles/XCERTS/adgift.html, thank
to Art Bell) who decifered crop circles by spinning the motifs on a
table. He thinks that they are a scale model of a spacecraft.

Anybody knows where Mr Ruby is at these days? I dont suppose the craft
has been built.

Mathias