This is unbelievably cool! An Apple Software Engineer (big surprise) named Andrew Carol has successfully recreated "the famous Antikythera Mechanism, created by ancient Greeks in 100 B.C. as a way of predicting astronomical events like eclipses" out of LEGO (as documented in a stop-motion film, no less). The interview is very interesting; it's a discussion that would be fruitful even if it was just an intriguing hypothetical in a discussion of machines and the guy hadn't actually gone ahead and done it (Using LEGO!!!) Counting gear teeth, no less...
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1662831/watch-an-apple-engineer-recreate-a-2000-year-old-computer-using-legos
3 comments:
That is so fantastic! I love this line from the film:
"Pretty impressive for a bunch of plastic blocks."
It captures the infinite possibilities.
That was so cool! I wasn't expecting the movie to be so high-end; they had to remove a lot of fly rigs in post to make that work.
And I know the animator, too. Talented guy.
Wow! This serves to remind me that humans were pretty damn smart 2000 years ago. Great video and I love the music!
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