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Posted on 04/04/2006 12:49:05 PM PDT by Sunsong
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To: Alberta's Child
Take it from somebody who works in the automotive advertising business,
The entire sequence is computer generated.
Nearly every car commercial you see on TV now is CGI.
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posted on
04/04/2006 1:02:55 PM PDT
by
freedomson
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To: bondjamesbond
Their weighted in the top, so as soon as they are peturbed, they "roll" uphill.There appears to be something on the ramp to keep them in their initial position, so, yeah, weights along the rims would make them accelerate as the weights moved out towards the horizontal from the rim center, and then slow down once the weights passed the horizontal.
I think I'll disassemble my Accord to see if I can duplicate it all.
= )
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posted on
04/04/2006 1:06:32 PM PDT
by
Hoplite
To: 68skylark
Its from around 1997 if I recall.
To: Alberta's Child
The tires have a weight attached inside the tread at the top. When they get bumped, the weight falls down, rolling the tire up the ramp. Look at the horizontal position of the top of the tire at the beginning position, then look at how that same spot is actually lower even though the tire has rotated and climbed the ramp. The weight fell down inside of the tire.
You can even see one of the tires rock back and forth when the weight hits equibrilium.
Think old fashioned water wheel. The weight of the filled buckets on one side of the wheel are heavier than the empty buckets on the other side, and the wheel turns.
For this video, it does have to be a very dense weight, however.
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posted on
04/04/2006 1:32:48 PM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(USAF, TAC, 12th AF, 366 TFW, 366 MG, 366 CRS, Mtn Home AFB, 1978-81)
The original article, published in The Telegraph, April 4, 2003, provides much more information and a bit of humor.
FR link to original: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/903195/posts
The link may only last for one hour, since it's an archived article. If so, use the FR search for Keyword - either MDM or COG. Title: Lights! Camera! Retake! (check out this cool video)
(snip) At one point three tyres, amazingly, roll uphill. They do so because inside they have been weighted with bolts and screws which have been positioned with fingertip care so that the slightest kiss of kinetic energy pushes them over, onward and, yes, upward. During the pre-shoot set-ups, film assistants had to tiptoe round the set so as not to disturb the feather-sensitive superstructure of the arranged metalwork. The slightest tremor of an ill-judged hand could have undone hours of work.
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posted on
04/04/2006 1:39:04 PM PDT
by
Eagle9
To: Eagle9
Thanks for that! That is really neat!
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posted on
04/04/2006 2:00:26 PM PDT
by
Sunsong
To: Sunsong
To: Alberta's Child; freedomson
Take it from somebody who works in the automotive advertising business, The entire sequence is computer generated. Here's the original article from the London Telegraph. It's all real. Telegraph article
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posted on
04/04/2006 8:11:22 PM PDT
by
Richard Kimball
(I like to make everyone's day a little more surreal)
To: freedomson
Just because "nearly every" car commercial is CGI does not mean that this one is.
The whole appeal of this is that it was done for real, a la Rube Goldberg.
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posted on
04/04/2006 9:18:38 PM PDT
by
Choose Ye This Day
("Yo, Mike, you vant us to unpimp zis ting lemme hear you say 'vat.'")
To: Choose Ye This Day; Richard Kimball
We're professional liars and 90% of the people in this business are 'progressives'. That ought to tell you something.
Phony ads are backed up with phony press releases, you wouldn't believe what lengths these people will go to create interest and image.
I'd ask you to trust me but that would go against my own advice.
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posted on
04/05/2006 5:29:09 AM PDT
by
freedomson
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To: freedomson
You're wrong. It was real. It wasn't CGI.
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posted on
04/05/2006 6:45:06 AM PDT
by
Richard Kimball
(I like to make everyone's day a little more surreal)
To: Richard Kimball
I asked around and Yes, you're correct, it's absolutely, positively 100% real!
The real deal, the genuine article!
And boy what a smooth ride that new Honda is, test drive one today and see for yourself!
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posted on
04/05/2006 6:57:02 AM PDT
by
freedomson
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