![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eub Stilts confirm ants count their paces
Harry Porter's Relay Computer, and more, including thechitinous clattering of relay mouthpart^Hs. (Actually it's much like a sewing machine.)
Oh, poo: Main Memory (32K x 8bits, static RAM chip).
Drs Matthias Wittlinger and Harald Wolf at University of Ulm, Germany, and Prof Rudiger Wehner in Zurich, altered the legs on a group of ants to test the idea that they use stride length [count, that is, times imagined length].
Some had pig bristles glued on to their legs, while others had legs shortened by amputation.
First some marched on normal legs to a feeder, where they were placed on stilts and sent home.
The stiltwalkers misjudged the 10-metre distance back and overshot the nest entrance.
Harry Porter's Relay Computer, and more, including the
Oh, poo: Main Memory (32K x 8bits, static RAM chip).
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2006-07-10 08:34 am (UTC)I misread that subject line to be "Harry Potter's Relay Computer," and coupled with the ants, thought you were giving away secrets from the new book or something.
I went to Harry Porter-not-Potter's page and I haven't a single clue what that giant thing does, but I'm finding Harry to be pretty sexy.
no subject
Date: 2006-07-11 06:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-10 08:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-10 09:07 am (UTC)Should have used mercury delay lines. (But how do you couple that back into the relay stuff? A coherer?)
I hear you can build a delay-line memory out of iron wire, like coathanger or baling wire, using torsion instead of compression or whatever the mercury lines used.
no subject
Date: 2006-07-11 06:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-11 06:15 am (UTC).
.
.
http://www.bio.bris.ac.uk/research/behavior/Army_Ant_Traffic_Flow.pdf
Self-organized lane formation and optimized traffic flow in army ants
no subject
Date: 2006-07-12 05:00 pm (UTC)