I used to ride, amazingly in Palo Alto CA, the middle of silicon valley.
I actually got into roping as a present to myself (and my horse too!)
and got interested in how dogs, horses and riders coordinated to do
tasks. I went to a workshop, lead by an ancient "horse whispers"
sorta guy .. tough as nails and sweet as honey. As part of it, we got
to see two border collies and a hellofa good rider work a herd.
Mind blowing. Make you cry.
-- Owen
On Mar 21, 2009, at 10:02 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:
Yeah, some "fake animation." But I've seen sheep dogs do jaw-
dropping things with a herd when the only command is the shepherd's
long-distance whistling. Ergo, I think it may well be less than 90%
animation.
-t
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Stephen Guerin <stephen.gue...@redfish.com
> wrote:
pretty cool idea even if 90% of it is fake animation. It should work
as a viral ad, though, like the faked one-wing killathrill plane
landing video from last year:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVxe8Nm2w8I
-s
On Mar 20, 2009, at 5:10 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:
Imagine the creator/artist trying to initially explain to the sheep
ranchers what he was up to and what he wanted them to do. But I
love the emergence of it all, given that the only major rule for the
"sheep agents" is "Move away from the dog. Quickly."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FX9rviEhw
-tj
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