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Cartoon Physics
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Head size vs. shirt size?Cartoons are one place where suspension of physical law is often accepted in order to support the overall comic effect, though there seems to be a sort of convention of "cartoon physics" as well. I've seen such lists of observed self-consistencies in western animation lots of places in various forms, including on Wikipedia. But do any of those retellings address how characters with huge heads like this and this and this can put their clothes on?
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Twisted Physics
Movie and cartoon physics have always been highly suspect. The difference is that until fairly recently, it was blatantly obvious when special effects "cheats" were called into play. This started to fall apart with the advent of the green screen, and ironically went completely to hell with CGI. Why ironically? Because the same computing power used to render can also be used to do the physics properly -- but it generally isn't.
Another irony is that some movies that look cartoonish (Pixar films, for example) have more reasonable physics than movies that are meant to integrate the computer-generated effects seamlessly. Cartoons are one place where suspension of physical law is often accepted in order to support the overall comic effect, though there seems to be a sort of convention of "cartoon physics" as well.
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Re:What's the incentive?Considering it's already down (see my other post in this thread), I guess it's safe to say that Dell's dynamic pricing moves faster than Slashdot's submission acceptance system.
It's the Slashdot corollary to the Cartoon Law of Falling Anvils (Law IX):
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Real science answers to real science questions
Why did it take a "Top Advisory Panel" to tell us this? Real science answers to real science questions
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Re:So, uh
it's illegal Why?
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What?
What? Didn't they wisely have him beheaded?
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Re:Real programmers don't comment...
That would be here.
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If Operating Systems Drove Your Car to the Store
"UNIX
You get in the car and type grep store. You are given a list of 400 7-11's in your area and 50 grocery stores. After picking one and reaching speeds of 200 miles per hour en route, you arrive at the barber shop."
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The "Alternate" Cartoon Laws of Physics, Sci-Fi
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Re:Norbert Weiner true (?) story
Probably a variation on number 10 on the Real Insurance Reports jokes that circulated in email a few years back.
"10. The telephone pole was approaching fast. I was attempting to swerve out of its path when it struck my front end."
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The Devil and *David* Webster
The Devil and David Webster, for all you programmers out there.
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Re:Everything you need to know...
Everything you need to know about the laws of physics you can learn by watching Wylie E. Coyote and Roadrunner cartoons
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Re:After Seeing the Movie, a quick review:
(until a major physicist can explain to me how a roadrunner can run into a tunnel painted on a solid rock wall, and a coyote shortly thereafter slams into said painting, you should be willing to suspend belief and logic)...
Here you are. Law Number VII specifically.
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Already done
Now all we have to do is find the school with the course on "Warner Brothers Animation Physics..."
- Any body suspended in space will remain in space until made aware of its situation
- Any body in motion will tend to remain in motion until solid matter intervenes suddenly.
- Any body passing through solid matter will leave a perforation conforming to its perimeter.
- All principles of gravity are negated by fear.
- As speed increases, objects can be in several places at once.
- Any violent rearrangement of feline matter is impermanent.
- Everything falls faster than an anvil
And more...
