Remember playing MOUSE TRAP as a kid?

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Remember playing MOUSE TRAP as a kid?

Post by Wesley Tucker » Wed Aug 03, 2005 8:45 pm

If you are a graphics person, a video person, an artistic person, a car guy, a gadget guy or just like really cool videos, then take the time to watch this:

http://www.steelcitysfinest.com/HondaAccordAd.htm

This is some of the most original stuff I've seen in a long time. And don't forget: watch it a couple of times and you'll notice that it was all done IN ONE TAKE!

Just incredible

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Post by Adam Daniels » Wed Aug 03, 2005 9:29 pm

no matter how many times i see that i still remain impressed......but i wonder, how do the wheels roll up that incline? it sorta makes sense but they shouldn't roll up that high, and if you watch teh second tire hit the last one, it still rolls up.......
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Post by Wesley Tucker » Wed Aug 03, 2005 11:43 pm

Adam,

Just ask yourself one question: is the floor LEVEL?

The more I watch it the more I am convinced the set is built with an incline. Then the camera is adjusted to alter the perspective. The clincher for me is the radiator fan moving across the floor. I just don't think it could generate the thrust to move. But if it's nudged and goes down hill, then everything works.

And the wheels then aren't rolling up such a steep incline, but more of a level track.

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Post by Adam Daniels » Wed Aug 03, 2005 11:45 pm

Wesley Tucker wrote:Adam,

Just ask yourself one question: is the floor LEVEL?

The more I watch it the more I am convinced the set is built with an incline. Then the camera is adjusted to alter the perspective. The clincher for me is the radiator fan moving across the floor. I just don't think it could generate the thrust to move. But if it's nudged and goes down hill, then everything works.

And the wheels then aren't rolling up such a steep incline, but more of a level track.
brilliant! great work! that explains a lot...and the fan was the second thing i guestioned myself about

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Post by Alex Walters » Fri Aug 26, 2005 5:42 am

.....The sequence where the tires roll up a slope looks particularly impressive but is very simple. Steiner says that there is a weight in each tire and when the tire is knocked, the weight is displaced and in an attempt to rebalance itself, the tire rolls up the slope
That was taken straight from the link.

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Post by Chris Eggers » Fri Aug 26, 2005 7:37 am

shit, no flash installed..........is it possible to watch it without? somehow?

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Post by Chris Barrett » Fri Aug 26, 2005 7:27 pm

actually, it was done in thousands of takes and strung together, and the only computer graphics utilized was to stitch the takes together seamlessly. The guy who did this commerical does tons of installation pieces like this, and its just FREAKING mindblowin.
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Another good online video

Post by Wesley Tucker » Tue Nov 01, 2005 4:51 pm

This is actually pretty good. It's a real brain teaser. The headline (not sure if it's German or Dutch) reads "find three differences between these two pictures." Once you do, you click on a button and it reveals if you are correct:

http://members.home.nl/saen/Special/Zoeken.swf

It's not as simple as it appears.
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Re: Another good online video

Post by Chris Barrett » Tue Nov 01, 2005 6:52 pm

Wesley Tucker wrote:This is actually pretty good. It's a real brain teaser. The headline (not sure if it's German or Dutch) reads "find three differences between these two pictures." Once you do, you click on a button and it reveals if you are correct:

http://members.home.nl/saen/Special/Zoeken.swf

It's not as simple as it appears.
BASTARD...
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Post by Scott Snow » Tue Nov 01, 2005 7:16 pm

Jumped right out of my seat!

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Re: Another good online video

Post by Wesley Tucker » Tue Nov 01, 2005 8:07 pm

Chris Barrett wrote: BASTARD...
Uh, thank ya' vera much.
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Post by Adam Winston » Mon Nov 06, 2006 2:36 pm

GAH YOU GOT ME...

its very late at night here.. i woke up my family... thanks.. JERK :)

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Post by Adam Daniels » Mon Nov 06, 2006 9:19 pm

we are working on a project like this in school....but the goal is to crush a can to 1/3rd its size with only 5 steps.

also..i found out the wheels were weighted
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