Simulated bowling strike

A computer simulation of a bowling strike. Fredrik Fatemi and I did the dynamics simulation. The rendering was done on a simulator for PixelFlow, a graphics machine I worked on in grad school.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• bowling
• dynamics
• simulation

[juankixote]

hey, do you mind if I use this for a high school video that'll be posted online?

[lkesteloot]

@juankixote Go ahead! Let me know when it's up.

[PahangDragonbird]

Wow! Seen a still from this animation a few years ago!

[lkesteloot]

You probably saw the cover of the RenderMan book. That cover came first. This animation was inspired by it.

[freestylejosh]

What program did you use

[lkesteloot]

I wrote the program to do the simulation (the dynamics). The rendering program (PixelFlow's simulator) was written by myself and two other grad students (Daniel Aliaga and Yulan Wang).

[wahoo423]

Great, now im 1 second closer to my death

[SmithAbbott]

1 SEC

[PahangDragonbird]

@lkesteloot hmm yes but I've definitely seen something from this animation, not a photograph many years ago, like around 2003 or 2004, maybe earlier

[TheOnehandedwonder]

@TheOnehandedwonder i'm with myself

[EliteFusion08]

lol play the vid 12 times, perfect game!

[TheOnehandedwonder]

@wahoo423 i'm voting up on that

[TheOnehandedwonder]

waste of 1 second

[omgwaffles09]

adverts are realy anoying on a 1 sec video

[andrea99dark]

che schifo!!