h a l f b a k e r yIt might be better to just get another gerbil.
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Augmented reality goggles connected wirelessly to a bow,
displaying accurate real-time projections of the arrow's
potential trajectory.
The bow measures a variety of variables, including
elevation of the arrow, direction in which it's being
pointed, potential energy of the string, wind direction
and
speed, humidity, air pressure and distances to objects in
front of it.
This data is (are) sent to the goggles' processor, which
calculates the likely resultant trajectory and displays it in
its viewfinder as a semi-transparent red arc. Uncertainty is
graphically displayed by less opacity and a wider funnel, so
when there is no wind, the trajectory is a tight red line; on
a windy day, the trajectory is a wide, transparent cone.
This is all done in real-time, so as the bow string is pulled
back, the trajectory will extend and straighten away down
the range.
This would be extremely cool.
I particularly like the idea of taking archaic tools, leaving
them unchanged, but incorporating complicated modern
technology to improve them, without altering the
fundamental, primitive design.
It's like steam-punk, but even older. Stone-punk, perhaps.
Ball Invasion
http://www.youtube....watch?v=WHGtvdxTVZk
augmented reality iPad game [JesusHChrist, Jul 13 2012]
Bendy lasers
http://www.nature.c.../news.2009.360.html
theleopard wants bendy lasers? Bendy lasers. [imagin8or, Jul 16 2012]
[link]
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[Stone-punk, perhaps] More likely the next step in modern target archery. Have you seen the gear that goes on a modern competition bow? |
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I've seen it, but don't know what all the knobs and
levers and such actually do. This would pretty cool
though, no? |
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Depending on the competition, most of them are actually just balance and such. But they (and hunting bows) are available with sights ranging from simple iron sights to as high tech a scope as is available for a rifle. |
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bun- esp. for your last (2) paragraphs! |
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But steampunk doesn't include digitalia. I'd go for making a bow and arrow "old school" but feeling free to use any further knowledge garnered in the last few tens of millenia to make it better: range and windage marks for instance, whatever those rods are that stick out of the front of a competition bow maybe, yet still using the materials and tools available "waaaay back in the day". |
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F'rinstance a loincloth would be proper stonepunk attire but the historically appropriate tick and flea infestations would not be. And on the other end of the scale making it out of nylon would be a nono too. |
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I'm seeing a reversal of the previously established
theme - steampunk and their ilks recreate
contemporary devices using previously available
technology, establishing a retrospective code-fork as
it were - this is more a case of taking a "classic" item
and augmenting its ease of use and function with a
facilitating bolt-on. |
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I'd like to see this applied to the sling, atlatl, etc. |
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Do you think this can be done on iOS devices? |
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I'm imagining you can use the face forward camera, to track the hand holding the arrow. Allowing the person to aim with the iOS (or android device) on one hand, and pinch and release the arrow on the other hand. |
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This is relevant to this idea right? or should i just make a separate post lol. |
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Regarding stonepunk, my only fear resides within
one of the world's cinematic abominations; the
desperately awful L Ron Hubbard-written Battlefield
Earth, in which alien invaders are fought off by
cavemen in fighter jets. This is not where I'm going
with this, right? |
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The goggle approach is a bit clunky. |
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All that's needed, shirley, is a laser mounted on the
bow in a drivable mount. The bow-mounted strain
gauges and tilt-meters would then point the laser at
the expected impact point. To allow for range, the
laser itself could be used to measure the distance. |
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Or, and admittedly this is a bit of a radical approach, you could just ramp up the laser output until it becomes a useful weapon in its own right ... |
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You see, what we want, really, is bendy lasers. |
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theleopard: for bendy lasers, see link. |
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I like the stonepunk ethic more than the steampunk one. Stonepunk we could do in *this* reality; with sufficiently advanced technology, the user could be fed the targeting information via implants, so they don't even look like they're using technology to split the reed at 50 paces. |
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I'd like a synaesthetic approach to the feedback from the system; such that the user would feel their way to the target rather than seeing numbers and graphics. That is more organic, and enables usage of lots of other parts of the brain. More kung-fu than fighter-pilot. |
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