Engineering gone wild !!

Americans may not be very good at mortgages or banking - but.......

 

Turnup  your sound for this one read first, then watch. 
This  is almost  unbelievable.... See how all the balls wind up in catcher cones. 
This  incredible machine was built as a collaborative effort between the Robert M. Trammell Music Conservatory and the Sharon   Wick School of Engineering at the University of Iowa .

Amazingly,  97% of the machines components came from JOHN N DEERE Industries and Irrigation Equipment of Bancroft , Iowa - Deere tractors to some of you.  
 It took the team a combined 13,029 hours of set-up, alignment,  calibration, and tuning before filming this video.

 It  is now on display in the Matthew Gerhard Alumni Hall at the university and is eventually going to the  Smithsonian Institute in Washington . 

  

Download engineering.wmv - 3,711.82KB


Submitted by phil farmer
18 Nov, 2008


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Wow. I've seen many false claims on the internet, but this is quite the biggest load of bull I've come across yet. It's plain to see the whole thing is rendered, along with the music being from standard General MIDI instruments.

Yes, the video is impressive, but it has NOTHING to do with the description. It's a sample from "Pipe Dream", a music track on the first "Animusic" DVD (http://www.animusic.com/). It's all computer generated, from the music to the video itself. And not one part of the entire system has anything to do with tractors, John Deere or otherwise.

OMG How old is this one? I sent this one in over two years ago,go find some new stuff... http://office-humour.co.uk/item/4281/

And I am with Anaerin, clearly bogus and computer generated, not real, not new, not interesting, go find some new stuff...

Yes; it's all definitely CG, most likely straight out of Autodesk II or III.



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