Hey ya'll! This is just a short video I put together to accomplish a few things:
1. I wanted to announce my brand spakin new production "company" name, Closer Look Films! (wooo!)
2. I have been learning a ton of new stuff on Adobe After Effects, so this video showcases a few of them.
3. I just wanted to juggle, so enjoy da 3 ball!
Getting closer to my goal of 10 seconds.
The images at the start from left to right are Enrico Rastelli (1920s), Leon Rabello (1936) and Paolo Bedini (1943).
The machine learning shows a genetic algorithm evolving a multi-layer perceptron neural network controller to perform the balance in 2 dimensions. A 2D rigid-body physics engine was used for the simulation. The performance of each trial was assessed based on the time balanced and the average 'uprightness' of the stack over the duration of the balance.
http://www.mathworks.co.uk/matlabcentral/fileexchange/36911-machine-learning-balancing-a-stack-of-balls
16 ring, 2 person half flash. August 16th 1989. Bob Mendelsohn on the left, Owen Morse on the right.
The Guinness Book of World Records actually accepted this as a juggling record but said they would not include it in the book since the record for a single juggler was 11 and they thought we should be closer to double that.