Below are some land creatures that empoy the mechanism from Miron Sadziak's
"Gyroscope and Pendulum" into a means of walking. All three creatures
(GyroSpyder, GyroDeathWalker, and GrapeGoose) have some, but not great, food
finding ability. GyroDeathWalker, created by a student in my cognitive
science class, Shawn Gaston, is part of an attempt to create a bipedal
walking creature. All three have very interesting means of locomotion.
Cheers,
Pete
GyroSpyder (created by Pete Mandik)
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|!:0.246,/:999.000,2:-10](X[@0:0.637,G:-3.415],X[!:0.211,G:2.174]),LLffffX[|
-1 :-1.983,1 :-2.641](LLffffX,),RffffX(LLffffX[S:-2.396],))
GyroDeathWalker (created by Shawn Gaston)
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1,5:1])),(SSSSIIXSSSSIIMMMX[|!:1,1:10,2:-10](SSSSMMMIIX[!:1,G:1],SSSSMMMIIX[
!:1,G:1])),RSSSSMMMIIX(SSSSIIX(SSSSSSIIX[|1:1,-5:-1],SSSSSSMIIX[S:10]),,llll
llllllllllllllSSSSIIX))
GrapeGoose (modification of GyroDeathWalker by Pete Mandik)
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S:10][|-1:1,9:-1,-2:-1,10:1],,SSSSSSIILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLX[|-2:-1,8:1,-3:1,9
:-1])),(SSSSIILXSSSSIIMMMMMMMMMMMMLX[|!:1,2:10,4:-10](SSSSMMMMMMMMIIlllllX[|
!:1,1:-10,2:10][!:1,G:2],,,,,SSSSMMMMMMMMIIlllllX[|!:1,1:10,2:-10][!:1,G:2])
),RSSSSMMMIIfffffX(SSSSIIfffffLX(SSSSSSIILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLX[|2:1,-8:-1,3:-
1,-9:1],,SSSSSSMIIFX[|1:-1,-9:1,2:1,-10:-1][S:10][T:1]),llllllllllllllllllSS
SSIIfffffX))
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P E T E M A N D I K
Assistant Professor and
Associate Director, Cognitive Science Laboratory
Department of Philosophy
William Paterson University of New Jersey
265 Atrium Building
300 Pompton Road
Wayne, NJ 07470
(973)-720-2173
mandikp@wpunj.edu
http://www.wpunj.edu/cohss/philosophy/faculty/mandik