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Music visualizer in the style of a Pong game

You know the classic game Pong with the paddles and ball that moves across the screen? Imagine the ball and paddles synchronized to music. Victor Tao approached the challenge as an optimization problem to figure out where the paddle and balls should go, based on the beats of a song:

Fortunately there is a mature field dedicated to optimizing an objective (screen utilization) with respect to variables (the locations of bounces) in the presence of constraints on those variables (physics and the beats of the song). If we write our requirements as a constrained optimization problem, we can use an off-the-shelf solver to compute optimal paddle positions instead of designing an algorithm ourselves.

The result is Song Pong, and the Python code is on GitHub. [via Waxy].

Designing a Futuristic Magnetic Turbine (MHD drive)

A solid state turbine may be the next evolution for marine travel, just like Novium is the next evolution of pens.
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Learning from my first design, I created an improved marine thruster that uses magnetohydrodynamic thrust. It took the better part of a month, and plenty of tests. This really pushed my 3D printing skills to the limit, but it also lead to fully functional thruster that outperformed my expectations. Thanks to Onshape for their awesome modeling program. Create a free Onshape account here: https://Onshape.pro/PlasmaChannel.
First MHD thruster video here: ‱ Using Stealth Propulsion for Ocean Tr


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Music credits
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Title screen music:
Song: Sappheiros — Awake.
Music provided by Vlog No Copyright Music.
Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported.
Video Link: ‱ Sappheiros — Awake (Vlog No Copyright


ALL other music provided by Epidemic Sounds.

#future #innovation #MHD

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