01 Oct 13
Originally posted by sonhouseI sux at new games. Took me forever to learn Whist, I hate Go, but love solitaire Mah-Jong. I slowly pick up more Latin, Italian and trying my hardest at German. I should give learning to read music another whack.
And a new game. After chess, Go? Pente? Othello? Twixt? Upwords?
01 Oct 13
Originally posted by scacchipazzoI invented a game, 3D go, where you have 19 boards on top of one another. I tried building a real one but realized you would have to make it about 10 feet tall in order to get the pieces inside.
I sux at new games. Took me forever to learn Whist, I hate Go, but love solitaire Mah-Jong. I slowly pick up more Latin, Italian and trying my hardest at German. I should give learning to read music another whack.
So the next thought was to do in on a computer, there you just specify a coordinate, X, Y and Z and the piece gets magically placed there. A matrix 19X19X19.
I made a stab at rules, like one move would put a stone on each board so you make 19 moves each round but only one stone per board, you couldn't pile up 19 stones on one board.
The object in regular go is to capture territory, and in my 3D version, you capture VOLUMES.
01 Oct 13
Originally posted by sonhouseMakes my head spin.
I invented a game, 3D go, where you have 19 boards on top of one another. I tried building a real one but realized you would have to make it about 10 feet tall in order to get the pieces inside.
So the next thought was to do in on a computer, there you just specify a coordinate, X, Y and Z and the piece gets magically placed there. A matrix 19X19X19.
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The object in regular go is to capture territory, and in my 3D version, you capture VOLUMES.
02 Oct 13
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Originally posted by scacchipazzoI am just recovering from the shock of being asked (by a clearly deranged and misguided Head) to teach Latin to 11 year olds! In my dotage I love the logic of the language which appeals very much to the more left-brained side of me. Nice challenge to take this up in the Autumn years of my life......
I sux at new games. Took me forever to learn Whist, I hate Go, but love solitaire Mah-Jong. I slowly pick up more Latin, Italian and trying my hardest at German. I should give learning to read music another whack.
02 Oct 13
Originally posted by Pianoman1How much different is Latin of today compared to the language spoken in ancient Rome, say 2500 years ago?
I am just recovering from the shock of being asked (by a clearly deranged and misguided Head) to teach Latin to 11 year olds! In my dotage I love the logic of the language which appeals very much to the more left-brained side of me. Nice challenge to take this up in the Autumn years of my life......
02 Oct 13
Originally posted by Pianoman1Bless your heart. My daughter took Latin in high school from a virtuoso of the language and great teacher to boot. She hated every bit of it yet always made A's. It is not an easy language at all.
I am just recovering from the shock of being asked (by a clearly deranged and misguided Head) to teach Latin to 11 year olds! In my dotage I love the logic of the language which appeals very much to the more left-brained side of me. Nice challenge to take this up in the Autumn years of my life......
03 Oct 13
Originally posted by sonhouseDon,
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-09-picking-up-mistakes.html
The gist: Learn an instrument if you want to keep your marbles when you get older.
I just wrote a letter tonight to parents of young beginners (4th & 5th graders) about to start guitar lessons. As much as music helps us senior fellows, it gives young folk educational skills that go beyond the music.
This was my attempt to get the parents on board with their kid's music lessons. I've seen parents punish students by taking away their music lessons for excuses like bad grades in math, not starting on the 1st team in sports, getting in some kinda' behavior troubles. I just wanna smack the parent sometimes for acting like brats.
There is much written and researched about how music opens doors in a student’s growth: abstract concepts, analysis, memory, concentration of focus, organizational skills are not necessarily the learning objectives while studying guitar, but they are all positive by-products of the study of music.
03 Oct 13
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Originally posted by gregsflatYou are preaching to the choir here🙂 My daughter got her first degree at Berklee and second at Wesleyan and she knows all about the benefits of music! She teaches at university level and is coming back to the US for her Phd next year, at New York U I think.
Don,
I just wrote a letter tonight to parents of young beginners (4th & 5th graders) about to start guitar lessons. As much as music helps us senior fellows, it gives young folk educational skills that go beyond the music.
This was my attempt to get the parents on board with their kid's music lessons. I've seen parents punish students by taking away ...[text shortened]... g objectives while studying guitar, but they are all positive by-products of the study of music.
Me, I am just an itinerant folkie🙂 My next gig is a civil war era dance in Jim Thorpe, we have been doing that for several years, a dance master teaches HS kids the dance and I and 3 other guys play tunes from the era, about 30 in all. We have a rehearsal tomorrow night at Ken's house. Ken Purcell, nice guy, great on piano.
30 Oct 13
Originally posted by sonhouseWhen I envisioned 3D Go, I figured it would involve three players.
I invented a game, 3D go, where you have 19 boards on top of one another. I tried building a real one but realized you would have to make it about 10 feet tall in order to get the pieces inside.
So the next thought was to do in on a computer, there you just specify a coordinate, X, Y and Z and the piece gets magically placed there. A matrix 19X19X19.
...[text shortened]...
The object in regular go is to capture territory, and in my 3D version, you capture VOLUMES.
01 Nov 13
Originally posted by talvtalEach player gets a dimension? You would have to say, player 1 gets to pick a line, a representation of the co-ordinate system, like in chess we go E3 which is two co-ordinates. In 3d games there would be three co-ordinates to enter, so there would be an X co-ordinate, a Y co-ordinate, representing left and right and a Z representing up and down. So in your game, one player would represent X, one Y and one Z? It would seem then you would need SIX players since one set of 3 would call off the moves for one color, say black, then the other 3 calling off the white moves. Seems a bit convoluted...
When I envisioned 3D Go, I figured it would involve three players.
12 Nov 13
No need for that complexity, sonhouse. The reason I thought 3D Go would involve three players was any stone would have six liberties. It seemed impossible to ever capture stones with so many liberties so I envisioned three players at odds with one another. Of course this runs into the problem of two players ganging up on one, which is why I had given up on the idea. Hopefully you have revived the possibilty.
12 Nov 13
Originally posted by talvtalThat's why I changed things to make the takes that are there in regular go to be volumes not areas. Don't know if it is even possible, I never built a 3d game. I looked at 19 cubed and saw if you left enough physical room for your arms, say the boards were 6 inches apart, then the total height would be 9 and a half feet tall!
No need for that complexity, sonhouse. The reason I thought 3D Go would involve three players was any stone would have six liberties. It seemed impossible to ever capture stones with so many liberties so I envisioned three players at odds with one another. Of course this runs into the problem of two players ganging up on one, which is why I had given up on the idea. Hopefully you have revived the possibilty.
Clearly if this game were to come to something, it would have to be in software, not a physical board!