Hi. NX7.5 animation and motion (at work in the weekends). A 2001 version of Rhino to model and animate the leafs. Gimp to past the leafs into the animation. Inkscape to render the titles. Audacity to edit the sound. Blender to convert the stills to avi and add the sound.
A Turing Machine is comprised of a tape, a wheel, a read/write head and a control. The program on the website is merely the rule table inside the control. The Jacquard and some other parts of the clockwork computer, of which also a schematic exists can be regarded as a the missing parts minus the tape. There is no actual tape, but the program thinks the memory of the computer is the tape and uses that. The memory has only 12 nibbles of storage, but at 12 punchcards per minute, it takes hours before it runs out of memory. By then everyone is already to bed. Reading the comments, I think few get that the animation is really about a mechanical computer, not about a Turing Machine.
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Hi. NX7.5 animation and motion (at work in the weekends). A 2001 version of Rhino to model and animate the leafs. Gimp to past the leafs into the animation. Inkscape to render the titles. Audacity to edit the sound. Blender to convert the stills to avi and add the sound.
A Turing Machine is comprised of a tape, a wheel, a read/write head and a control. The program on the website is merely the rule table inside the control. The Jacquard and some other parts of the clockwork computer, of which also a schematic exists can be regarded as a the missing parts minus the tape. There is no actual tape, but the program thinks the memory of the computer is the tape and uses that. The memory has only 12 nibbles of storage, but at 12 punchcards per minute, it takes hours before it runs out of memory. By then everyone is already to bed. Reading the comments, I think few get that the animation is really about a mechanical computer, not about a Turing Machine.
For who is interested here is a schematic of the machine