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> The lack of a tail
> was simply the lack of a need to add one. After all, a cat uses a tail for
> maintaining its balance. A robotic cat would not have a true need for one.
yes it would - nature has decided that cats work well with tails
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"Rick [Kitty5]" <ric### [at] kitty5 com> wrote in message
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> > The lack of a tail
> > was simply the lack of a need to add one. After all, a cat uses a tail
for
> > maintaining its balance. A robotic cat would not have a true need for
one.
>
> yes it would - nature has decided that cats work well with tails
Tell that to Bobcats...
Nature has needs that Robotics does not. Most cats use their tails as
signaling devices in social and mating actions. Only a few, the Cheetah
being the most notable example, have any other use for their tail. In fact,
I have seen cats lose their prey because their flicking tail gave them away.
Here in Florida, a strain of seaside cat has developed that predominately
has a stub tail. I suspect it is because they catch more lizards. The mating
purpose of the tail is superceded by the hunting needs.
Robot cats would need no tail unless there was a purpose that the
designer added just for that...
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"C.J. - POV User" wrote:
> I got the idea for this from watching "Red Planet".
not from reading Snow Crash?
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C.J. - POV User wrote in message <3b05f24b@news.povray.org>...
>I got the idea for this from watching "Red Planet". I need to work on the
>textures and better positioning of the for claws.
>Comments?
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>hou### [at] yahoocom
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That looks great. Must have taken a lot of patience to model. All you need now
are details; little gaps here and there where things attach to each other to
make it look a little less CG. Some interlocking segments at the joints. And
don't forget to give it a lot of grunge so it will have some history.
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What is snow crash about?
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Anton Sherwood <bro### [at] poboxcom> wrote in message
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> "C.J. - POV User" wrote:
> > I got the idea for this from watching "Red Planet".
>
> not from reading Snow Crash?
>
> --
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Your right, I removed them from the new version
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Steve <ste### [at] zeroppsuklinuxnet> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 18 May 2001 23:12:19 -0500, C.J. - POV User wrote:
> >I got the idea for this from watching "Red Planet". I need to work on the
> >textures and better positioning of the for claws.
> >Comments?
>
> Looks deadly but those tubes seem a bit vulnerable.
>
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> %HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
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> web http://www.zeropps.uklinux.net/
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> or http://start.at/zero-pps
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"Tell that to Bobcats..."
OK, I'll try but I don't think they'll believe me...
cat info...
http://www.funtrivia.com/Animals/Cats.html
http://ffden-2.phys.uaf.edu/211.web.stuff/Kuhns/gyroscope_motion.htm
and this is good...
http://www.xmission.com/~emailbox/tailtalk.htm
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Bill DeWitt <bde### [at] cflrrcom> wrote in message
news:3b06a31b$1@news.povray.org...
>
> "Rick [Kitty5]" <ric### [at] kitty5com> wrote in message
> news:3b069a89$1@news.povray.org...
> > > The lack of a tail
> > > was simply the lack of a need to add one. After all, a cat uses a tail
> for
> > > maintaining its balance. A robotic cat would not have a true need for
> one.
> >
> > yes it would - nature has decided that cats work well with tails
>
> Tell that to Bobcats...
>
> Nature has needs that Robotics does not. Most cats use their tails as
> signaling devices in social and mating actions. Only a few, the Cheetah
> being the most notable example, have any other use for their tail. In
fact,
> I have seen cats lose their prey because their flicking tail gave them
away.
> Here in Florida, a strain of seaside cat has developed that predominately
> has a stub tail. I suspect it is because they catch more lizards. The
mating
> purpose of the tail is superceded by the hunting needs.
>
> Robot cats would need no tail unless there was a purpose that the
> designer added just for that...
>
>
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"Tell that to Bobcats..."
OK, I'll try but I don't think they'll believe me...
cat info...
http://www.funtrivia.com/Animals/Cats.html
http://ffden-2.phys.uaf.edu/211.web.stuff/Kuhns/gyroscope_motion.htm
and this is good...
http://www.xmission.com/~emailbox/tailtalk.htm
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POV Ray Study Gallery
http://hyperion.spaceports.com/~povstudy/
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Bill DeWitt <bde### [at] cflrrcom> wrote in message
news:3b06a31b$1@news.povray.org...
>
> "Rick [Kitty5]" <ric### [at] kitty5com> wrote in message
> news:3b069a89$1@news.povray.org...
> > > The lack of a tail
> > > was simply the lack of a need to add one. After all, a cat uses a tail
> for
> > > maintaining its balance. A robotic cat would not have a true need for
> one.
> >
> > yes it would - nature has decided that cats work well with tails
>
> Tell that to Bobcats...
>
> Nature has needs that Robotics does not. Most cats use their tails as
> signaling devices in social and mating actions. Only a few, the Cheetah
> being the most notable example, have any other use for their tail. In
fact,
> I have seen cats lose their prey because their flicking tail gave them
away.
> Here in Florida, a strain of seaside cat has developed that predominately
> has a stub tail. I suspect it is because they catch more lizards. The
mating
> purpose of the tail is superceded by the hunting needs.
>
> Robot cats would need no tail unless there was a purpose that the
> designer added just for that...
>
>
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Anton Sherwood wrote:
> "C.J. - POV User" wrote:
>> I got the idea for this from watching "Red Planet".
>
> not from reading Snow Crash?
Right, it really looks like the rat-things (at least more like a 'cat' as
subject says).
Jens
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"C.J. - POV User" wrote:
> What is snow crash about?
It's about a plot to reprogram everyone's brain, foiled by a hacker and
a skateboard messenger working for an alliance of (among others) the
Mafia and the Central Intelligence Corporation.
Relevance: Guard-dogs with nuclear-powered cyborg bodies that look like
giant robot rats. (Nice doggie.)
By Neal Stephenson, author subsequently of <Cryptonomicon> and <The
Diamond Age>.
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