CIS 682: Computer Animation

CSE 682: Computer Animation - Rube Goldberg

Maximum effort for minimum gain

rubegoldberg.com
wikipedia entry
Physics-driven 3D animation
ACCAD animation
Check out the 'Launch and Activate' clip (#2) on here this web page - toward the bottom
Official Rube Goldberg site (with small Art Gallery)
Purdue University Rube Goldberg Contest (the first university to start the modern contests in 1987);
Theta Tau (engineering fraternity) Rube Goldberg Contest (with videos)
Wikipedia: Rube Goldberg Rube Goldberg machine
Google Image (pictures of his original cartoons): http://images.google.com/images?q=Rube-Goldberg
OK Go
Honda Accord's "Cog" (made in 2003; Here's more about Cog: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cog_(television_commercial) ; "Making of Cog" video
Here's an elaborate Japanese Rube Goldberg device for making a bowl of Ramen noodles with a raw egg on top: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kvdq8cRNBM
Here's the 2006 Mythbuster's Christmas Special with their own version of a Rube Goldberg contraption: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCYg_gz4fDo
Here's the one-and-only Rube Goldberg himself in a 1940 short film for the petroleum industry called "Something For Nothing": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3LiXJOQ8I0
And in a similar vein, here's a 1933 Fleischer cartoon called "Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions" inspired by Goldberg and the 1933 Chicago World's Fair: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uup2QBqkXug http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Boop's_Crazy_Inventions