xkcd have created a tic-tac-toe cheat sheet.
Your move is given by the position of the largest red symbol on the grid. When your opponent picks a move, zoom in on the region of the grid where they went. repeat.
There is an X and an O version, depending if you move first or second.
I have not tried it, but it seems very simple. I wonder if anyone will create a web or mobile app for this.
[via: xkcd]
So Japan have made a holographic pop-star.
That is awesome.
Holographic idol Hatsune Miku is the creation of the group Crypton Future Media, using software from Vocaloid, and the group has put the avatar on tour with a live band. The sight of thousands of screaming fans waving glow sticks while the the holograph “performs” on stage is straight out of a science fiction novel.
The avatar is huge and incredibly realistic. Check out “her” concert performance below. More videos can be found here.
[via: The huffington Post]
The factory is capable of building virtually anything using the 95 types of bricks available from the built-in warehouse. Models for the factory are designed using LEGO Digital Designer (LDD) and are interpreted by a custom software written for MS Windows. After interpretting the LDD file (model), the software generates a set of building instructions for the factory to produce the model, and sends them to the factory master NXT which distributes tasks among other four NXTs.
At the respective YouTube description, Martijn reports the following data:
- Warehouse: 95 different bricks with a total of 1520 bricks in stock.
- Maximum model size: 16 x 22 x 11 (W x L x H, in bricks).
- Models designed in Lego Digital Designer (LDD).
- Controlled with 5 NXTs.
- Total construction time: 4.5 months (Jun-Oct 2010).
- Aprox. 150 hours of LEGO building + Aprox. 100 hours of programming (5 NXT's and LDD model processing software).
- Total amount of bricks: 25.000 (estimated value).
