A different reference frame
Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2023 4:49 pm
Hello M. TestTube!
Loved the game. Used it as a lab for my General Physics students - with excellent results.
Would love to see a new mode that allows us to play in the reference frame of the room - like if we are a person sitting in the room and V'Rap is a radio controlled toy we can move around the room. This would actually be an easier mode graphically since the room will be fixed but the V'Rap would contract/dilate. We as observer could be at top center of room looking down, or at the side of the room...
Some effects to explore:
- run fast enough to make V'Rap thinner to fit between closely spaced bullets...
- carry a bomb with a short fuse fast enough to douse it in water before it explodes... (just like the current snow and flame levels)
- doppler shift V'Rap to be "invisible" in various colored parts of the room...
- in "Seen" mode, V'Rap would run into walls that are far away from us before we see it happen - ouch!
- timing V'Raps motion through distant doors in "seen" mode would also pose a challenge
- in a new "true communication" mode, our radio control signal takes time to get to V'Rap, so our "commands" don't take immediate effect
- "true communication" plus "seen" mode should be nightmarish unless you just take slow baby steps!
Thanks for the new lab!
Dr A.
Loved the game. Used it as a lab for my General Physics students - with excellent results.
Would love to see a new mode that allows us to play in the reference frame of the room - like if we are a person sitting in the room and V'Rap is a radio controlled toy we can move around the room. This would actually be an easier mode graphically since the room will be fixed but the V'Rap would contract/dilate. We as observer could be at top center of room looking down, or at the side of the room...
Some effects to explore:
- run fast enough to make V'Rap thinner to fit between closely spaced bullets...
- carry a bomb with a short fuse fast enough to douse it in water before it explodes... (just like the current snow and flame levels)
- doppler shift V'Rap to be "invisible" in various colored parts of the room...
- in "Seen" mode, V'Rap would run into walls that are far away from us before we see it happen - ouch!
- timing V'Raps motion through distant doors in "seen" mode would also pose a challenge
- in a new "true communication" mode, our radio control signal takes time to get to V'Rap, so our "commands" don't take immediate effect
- "true communication" plus "seen" mode should be nightmarish unless you just take slow baby steps!
Thanks for the new lab!
Dr A.