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(...) I don't think we should focus on a type of solution, but just a problem that can be solved by many solutions. The argument against such specialization would be, if you dictate what kind of solution one wants to see, you might as well paint it (...) (23 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Oh I have some ideas ;) In order for one of my ideas to work, I need the top of the blocks to be tiled. You let me worry about how the 3x3 block is sitting in the 4x4 square. I am also so impressed by the delta v 'bot pics that Iain had a link (...) (23 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) My vote? I go with bricks (or plates). Matters not to me :) (23 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) looks like Chris "the Pyro guy" Magno going to blow up some Train track... :) (positive "proof" that Chris blows up trains!!!!) :) Benjamin Medinets (23 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Well I have enough bricks and plates to make the grid, but at the moment most of my plates are tied up in another project. My grabber as it stands right now will work with either. Visualy I prefer the bricks, because it actualy makes cells (...) (23 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Iain says: (...) DON'T!!! what you propose is still block processing. and it was CALUM who interpreted my poor "spirit definition" to say you are out of the rules. LOOK. I'm getting bored of this thread. If someone wants to process lego blocks with (...) (23 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(URL) adorable! Calum (23 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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"Chris Magno" <cmagno@home.com> wrote in message news:3BCB9A7B.C2AFCA...ome.com... (...) I know that myself, I'd be hard-pressed to find that many plates to make up a matrix like that. But finding bricks to do that would be no-problemo. Iain (23 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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"Benjamin Medinets" <bmedinets@excite.com> wrote in message news:GLA4Is.Cyx@lugnet.com... (...) it (...) I called, and they said they would send it off to me. Iain (23 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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"Chris Magno" <cmagno@home.com> wrote in message news:3BCB9C74.40BC09...ome.com... (...) Perhaps the pattern we should be making is a 4by4 resolution mosiac of you? :) Iain (23 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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"Calum Tsang" <tsangc@mie.utoronto.ca> wrote in message news:GLA1H9.6Kq@lugnet.com... (...) of (...) grab (...) already (...) That's why I feel guilty. I was going to have it look at what cells have blocks though, and then pick the blocks out of (...) (23 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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"Chris Magno" <cmagno@home.com> wrote in message news:3BCB95FC.C33086...ome.com... (...) Now I feel guilty. Iain (23 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) have you seen if you can get the metroliner correction kit? Or whatever it is to make yours correct. (23 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I have this piucture of a robot that imitates a ten pin bowling alley: Grabber comes down and picks up the blocks that are already in place, an arm scrapes the rest of the pieces off the tray into a hopper, it somehow reloads the empty slots (...) (23 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) WOW, what a GREAT idea!! Ok, new rule. it would not be in the spirit of the game if your robot did not pay homage to me is some respectful way. :) Wow, I feel this power all of a sudden. very liberating. Excuse me, my people are calling me. I (...) (23 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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HEY Gang. Off line i have been getting a lot of grief from Calum about the height of the cell walls for the next Robot Game. The blocks for the game are 3x3 by 2 bricks high we know the size of the grid. the last issue that Calum wants solved is (...) (23 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Correct. But what I'm arguing is Chris' statement of: (...) Notice he says "with the smarts to "see" a problem and change the pattern of blocks to the one specified". Your design wouldn't even see it, if you grab them all first and put them (...) (23 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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In one post Calum Rants: (...) then in a second post Calum drones on about: (...) Look, Calum, I understand you had a hard day at work, I heard that the subway system was screwy for a bit BUT that is no reason to go on and on. (smirk) OK, all (...) (23 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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"Calum Tsang" <tsangc@mie.utoronto.ca> wrote in message news:GL9wCv.Fot@lugnet.com... (...) or (...) No no, Chris said it would be okay for me to collect them into a 2by8 nest off the main grid. (...) limit (...) I can't think of too many ways (...) (23 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Oh, it's cool now, eh?! Who was dissing this at the dinner just Saturday night? :) Swarming...four bar motion...we'll have to add 3x3 upside down interlocking with a four by four grid to that list :) Calum (23 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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