Listening to Dan's talk on iTunes has makes me really want to post this, because this is the one problem that actually caught my curiosity. I was driving home one day, noticing these nice dotted lines on the highway as I came home. I wondered what I could do with it, and so I made my carpool friend drive home one day...
Act 1 - Roadlines
Road Lines - Act 1 from Timon Piccini on Vimeo.
I especially like this, because I feel like it is the "wizardry" of mathematics, something so innocent, could tell someone so much.
Act 2 - Measurements
Road Lines - Act 2 from Timon Piccini on Vimeo.
Some other very vital information is what is the distance. Well if you are from the US of A (do americans actually say that?), you can use this great article, just keep in mind my video is shot in Canada (so Km/h), or as my Blair Miller helped me find you can use this resource for British Columbia...
Or just pull out Google Earth and measure, that mother is pretty precise.
Act 3 - the Reveal
Road Lines - Act 3 from Timon Piccini on Vimeo.
And there it is. I feel as if I may have cheated you guys out of the reveal, just doing the picture in picture. Would have been better show me pull in the camera onto the dashboard? What do you think?
The Sequels
Where I could see this going is A) develop the general case for m/s to Km/h. Or better yet lines/sec to km/h (MPH if you are a friend of Uncle Sam (do Americans ever say that? I need to get cultured)). For some reason I feel like this would be a sweet app, have students make it. I also thought of bringing in movies, car chases, to see how fast they are really going. This one even mentions some of the speeds in the intense Bullitt car chase.
How else could I extend this? I don't know, but I think my grades should have fun with it...
How else could I extend this? I don't know, but I think my grades should have fun with it...
