Man Walks All Day to Create Spectacular Snow Patterns
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He seems to have a lot of practice and hours to line things up for each one. They don't look perfect. Maybe he just does it by eye? GPS?
Why does the appellation bother you so?
Most of this activity takes place in the ski resort of Les Arcs, where I own an apartment and spend most of the winter.
On average they take about 10 hours to really do it properly, some are a little unfinished, if my feet get cold or hurt too much.
The setting out is done using handheld orienteering compass and distance determination using pace counting or measuring tape. Curves are either judged or arcs of circle using a clothes line attached to an anchor at the centre
Designs are chosen from the world of geometry or "crop circles". Some are named eg Mandelbrot set, Koch curve, Sierpinski triangle are 3 of my favorites.
[0] http://www.njit.edu/features/sceneandheard/mariointhesnow.ph...
edit: did i really call it "great fun"? everyone do me a favor and skip the text.
Seriously though, these are amazing. I sometimes have problems drawing a "perfect" square without a ruler...
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It's a very interesting feat, but it's just a showcase of his realizations, unrelated to computers or science. His thought process or his planning for making such patterns would probably fit here more than this post.
I don't think it's a problem either, because such posts are rare, but I would be disappointed if Hacker News was filled with this kind of post.
[1] Can you make a business selling robots that let a ski resort decorate itself? Can you sell ads on unused winter pastures?
[2] If you consider each footprint to be a salesman's stop, then I think the answer is "Yes, but…"
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