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Title: Cool commercial
Post by: Nameless on November 27, 2011, 06:27:02 PM: Honda - The Cog (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ve4M4UsJQo#ws)
Title: Re: Cool commercial
Post by: Dario Dante on November 27, 2011, 06:43:09 PM: Awesome!!!
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Post by: CJSports on November 27, 2011, 09:21:17 PM: My friend's dad helped work on that. All those parts they use are in the car you see.
Title: Re: Cool commercial
Post by: Nameless on November 28, 2011, 08:21:30 AM: I still do not see how they got the wheels to roll up hill.
Title: Re: Cool commercial
Post by: I am Knot a Blonde! on November 28, 2011, 08:30:33 AM: That has to be the most frustrating thing i've ever seen. Can you imagine like half way through something barely doesnt make it? Start ALL over again to move something a fraction of an inch. You have to reset the whole thing... Probably happened 100+ times.
Title: Re: Cool commercial
Post by: Prof Underwood on November 28, 2011, 09:21:50 AM: Quote from: Nameless on November 28, 2011, 08:21:30 AM
I still do not see how they got the wheels to roll up hill.
I think there was some CGI going on there (as well as with the spinning muffler).

Quote from: I am Knot a Blonde! on November 28, 2011, 08:30:33 AM
Probably happened 100+ times.
I doubt it. Again, the CGI takes out a lot of those redos :)
Title: Re: Cool commercial
Post by: SomeKittens on November 28, 2011, 10:11:21 AM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cog_(advertisement)#Production (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cog_(advertisement)#Production)
Yeah, very little CGI.

Quote from: I am Knot a Blonde! on November 28, 2011, 08:30:33 AM
Probably happened 100+ times.
600, to be exact.
Title: Re: Cool commercial
Post by: Bobbert on November 28, 2011, 07:18:39 PM: Quote from: Nameless on November 28, 2011, 08:21:30 AM
I still do not see how they got the wheels to roll up hill.

It looked to me like they were top-heavy. Did you notice that they sped up after a moment?

Or it might have been CGI.
Title: Re: Cool commercial
Post by: lightningninja on November 28, 2011, 08:35:07 PM: Those wheels would not roll uphill, that's gotta be CGI. There's a couple other things too that I just don't think could realistically happen, idk if it's CGI, but I think it's just external factors (like wind) that aren't shown in the film but are happening.
Title: Re: Cool commercial
Post by: SomeKittens on November 28, 2011, 08:37:00 PM: You ever tried it yourself? There's a little push (just enough) that'll get it to roll uphill.
Title: Re: Cool commercial
Post by: lightningninja on November 28, 2011, 08:39:16 PM: Quote from: SomeKittens on November 28, 2011, 08:37:00 PM
You ever tried it yourself? There's a little push (just enough) that'll get it to roll uphill.
That's a pretty steep hill, not to mention that by the third wheel the kinetic energy is so low it would have little to no effect.
Title: Re: Cool commercial
Post by: SomeKittens on December 01, 2011, 09:40:53 AM: Here's another cool Rube Goldberg machine:
www.wimp.com/photographymachine/ (http://www.wimp.com/photographymachine/)
Title: Re: Cool commercial
Post by: Minister Polarius on December 01, 2011, 10:04:48 AM: The wheel thing can be easily accomplished. Take an incline, a wheel with treads that will hold it in place until disturbed, and put something heavy-ish on the inside of the wheel near the top, but slightly leaning toward the uphill side. When the wheel is bumped, it will roll uphill until the weight reaches the bottom of the wheel.
Title: Re: Cool commercial
Post by: Rawrlolsauce! on December 01, 2011, 10:31:48 AM: There may also be a hamster in the bottom of the wheel that has been trained to run when startled.