Rafael replied to Monart:

> Thanks for the nice music and nice animation. Very imaginative!
>
> Rafael
>
> --- Monart Pon <monart@...
> <mailto:monart%40starshipaurora.com>> wrote:
>
> > A video of an unusual music machine. Is it real or CG?
> >
> >
> >
>
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1887775976718496336&q=fantastic+machine&\
hl=en
>
<http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1887775976718496336&q=fantastic+machine\
&hl=en>
> >
I would have to agree with Rafael. I found a higher res version of it here:

http://www.thevideosense.com/video/Fantastic-Music-Machine/

CG has my vote if you were really asking, Monart. To me the giveaways
are that triple-ricochet balls at the beginning never miss; the sound
coming off the short lengths of cable is pitched too low for the length
of the cable at the beginning; seemingly all the balls are recaught
throughout the whole thing; the circular vibraphone bars are too long
for their pitch [the length of the shortest bar is less than half that
of the longest bar and that makes me suspicious since there are 40 some
bars, but I couldn't find the actual lengths of bars in my reference
books--suffice it to say that the shortest bars look to be almost as
long as the longest bars of a real vibraphone and would be pitched much
lower], they light up when struck, the ball launcher has no visible
mechanism for controlling the direction of the launched ball [the
blunderbuss style opening would be better suited to catching, not
launching]; and the camera fly-through is a bit too CG looking for me.

But wow what a visually fun treat! The animation is superb. I loved
the look of the cascading balls on the circular vibe!

Best Regards...

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