Originally published at: Make your own iceberg with Iceberger | Boing Boing
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Huh, that was a lot more mature than mine…
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This is something totally awesome to learn!
We learn a lot of physics from movies, like how gunshots sound, and how karate kicks work, and it turns out we are learning those things wrong. This is another example, the same kind of thing. Everyone “knows” how icebergs work because we’ve seen the (innacurate) drawings dozens of times.
I want to look more into the programming of the iceberger thing, it’s super cool (npi)
EDIT: If you draw an iceberg in the sky, it will drop into the water, float down some distance, and bob its way back up.
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i did a GIS on Iceberg Underwater and using some of the results, drew them in Iceberger and most failed miserably.
This one, however, barely moved at all (at least, based on my rendition):
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Translate, GIS?
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Game on! I am totally sharing this with my kids!
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Google Image Search.
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Yes, I also found that some of the “classic” depictions have a fairly stable orientation.
This example from my imagination, for instance, didn’t move at all after I finish drawing it:
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ey! if one draws a (U-shaped) ‘boat’ in the sky portion then it doesn’t drop down and ‘float (dry inside)’ but instead ‘fills’ and floats! (“the dangers of 2d world, perhaps?”)
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oddly all the ones i drew floated as i expected them to.
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Life is like a hurricane
Well, that was many minutes of fun! Seriously - I like it. Hard to tear oneself away. But they all float.
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Of course they all float. To think otherwise one would have to be quite dense indeed.
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But not so dense as not to know that playing Iceberger is merely a displacement activity.
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Showoff.
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Cronen?
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Are you too finding this way too much fun?
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