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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: There's No Fun At Pixar
Message-ID: <3727@well.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Aug-87 15:47:31 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 11 15:47:31 1987
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Summary: It's just a unicycle

In article <2539@tekgvs.TEK.COM> keithe@tekgvs.UUCP (Keith Ericson) writes:
>What I want to know, Leo, is why in the bleep you animated a juggler
>on a *unicycle* instead of on a recumbant bicycle ( and wearing a cape,
>of course)!
>
>keith

	No no no no no.  It's just a unicycle.  No rider, just a unicycle
with a mind of its own.

	The unicycle moves back and forth (angular rotation of the wheel is
30 degrees, as I recall), hitting the balls off the moving pedal.  The
balls bounce up to the seat, which gently bops them upward, where they then
fall to the other pedal, and get launched all the way over to the first
pedal again.

	It's a 96 frame loop.  Pedal-to-seat and seat-to-pedal times are 24
frames; pedal-to-pedal time is 48 frames.  Balls are seperated by 32 frames.
Gravity is 0.4 (arrived at empirically).  Balls are solid green, solid blue,
and "Boing".  Ball radius is 6......  *OOOOHH!*  Sorry to rant on you...

	I thought briefly of modelling a recumbent, but that would have
taken a week.  Someone also suggested, "Why don't you have a ball juggling
three unicycles?"

	Personally, if you're going to infringe on a copyright, you might as
well go for the whole nine yards.  I'm thinking of having a unicycle with
the Pixar(tm) logo for a wheel, juggling the Stained Glass Knight, a beach
chair, and a Luxo lamp.....  :-)

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