Author Archives: dougaj4

Dynamically Defined Dancing Pendulums

Posted on 30/05/2011 by dougaj4

Following the previous post, I have re-created the animation using a non-linear dynamic analysis inside Strand7, rather than by feeding in the positions of each ball at each time step.  The input using this approach is much simpler; just set … Continue reading →

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Dancing Pendulums

Posted on 25/05/2011 by dougaj4

This animation was produced in response to a video of real pendulums performing similar tricks: Not having an animation program I thought I’d use the finite element program Strand7.  Modelling the pendulums was easy, just 15 beam elements with a … Continue reading →

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Android apps

Posted on 19/05/2011 by dougaj4

Following yesterday’s post about my new toy, this one is about some of the applications to make it go. It will be fairly brief because I haven’t had a lot of time to explore, but the main aim is to … Continue reading →

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Acer A500 Tablet Review and Total Commander

Posted on 18/05/2011 by dougaj4

Having got fed up waiting for supplies of the iPad2 to become available, I bought myself an Acer A500 Tablet about 3 weeks ago, so here are my first impressions.  Remember that I’m very much a tablet newbie, who still uses dumb phone … Continue reading →

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Loopiest Anagram

Posted on 15/05/2011 by dougaj4

A list of clever anagrams of  Douglas Hofstadter’s “I am a Strange Loop” A Loop, Enigmas, Art;  A Gal Remaps onto “I” Loop Again, Master! But the loopiest anagram for “I Am a Strange Loop” was: Loopiest Anagram Anagrams copied from: http://reocities.com/unmark/mblog.html (scroll down … Continue reading →

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