Complex trajectories in 3-space, or flying Asiatic snakes
July 20, 2005 | Edward Tufte
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Science (July 15, 2005) has several website picks of the week including a very good flying snake in silhouette, in the last video under snake “take-off”.
The still photographs are also very good.
Topics: E.T.
Here’s a boring rather than flying snake that was around town a few years ago.
This news account nicely illustrates Martin’s point about subjectivity, does it not?
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Beautiful because it’s limited by a recency bias, the ribbon apparatus in rhythmic gymnastics records the last 19 feet of location in space of the attached end of the baton. If we ever teach wand magic in school, a ribbon would be a good way to visualize the swoops which accompany a well-cast spell.