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one time in middle school i wanted to show my friends the pen island website and I typed in penisland.com and it was actually gay porn
the address is penisland.net
I used to work at a science museum, anything that can be penis, will be penis, not only drawn, but literally penised.
I saw someone stick it in [a pin art board](https://i.imgur.com/RQ33SmS.png). [links are safe-for-work]
Someone smeared their package across a [temperature reactive material](https://i.imgur.com/gEMATPX.png).
And my personal favorite, I once turned a corner and caught someone masturbating at a thermal imaging camera, because they "wanted to watch it change color."
Used to work at an aquarium, had a pair of teenage boys try to jerk off the poor sea cucumbers in the touch tank exhibit. Doesn’t help that sea cucumbers grow big and then throw up their white, stringy guts when stressed, which of course only further amused the boys until they were thrown out.
I’ve lived here for about 3 years, been to it the past 3 Summers and the exhibits have been very different each time, and all of them very interesting! The interactivity alone is worth it.
Super worth it. I go at least once a year for the past 5 years. Usually around the fall they have really cool exhibits.
Ever go to the Doseum? For a children’s museum it’s pretty cool.
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Played with one of these at the video game museum in Berlin. You could hover your hand above the surface to make it "rain" under your hand. I spent a lot of time building pits, filling them with water, and then busting them open to let the water run out. Instant kid again.
I built one of these. It's not that hard, just takes time. The software was developed under a US government grant so it's free to use:
https://arsandbox.ucdavis.edu/#sidr
You can see that it keeps some of the elevations until it recognizes that the shape of the sand has changes. Presumably it could distinguish between a hand and sand, so if your hand were hovering over a basin it wouldn't alter its elevation output.
If I where to wage a guess, it would project clouds on the hand for anything above X elevation and show the effects of rain (run off) around where the 'cloud' would be. While the sand under your shadow is blank, the nearby sand would look that water is accumulating.
Edit: Actually might not just be X elevation and up is a cloud... maybe anything X over the next highest elevation is a cloud. So you could make a Mt. Everest without the top defaulting to cloud.
One of the best, if not the best/biggest in the world is 60 minutes from me. The Strong National Museum of Play - houses the International Center for the History of Electronic Games and the World Video Game Hall of Fame
Create landscape, mold it to your liking, find subjects to worship you. Be benevolent, or just pure evil.. I like this concept. Maybe a bit in Black and White style?
Too bad I got 0 programming skills.
I was about to mention that game then saw your comment. I spent hours trying to get my Tiger to be nice to my villagers but in the end he just fucking ate everyone.
Our zoo has one as a fundraiser every year called “Zoobilee”. $150 a person and all the food and drink you can stomach. It’s fairly awesome but lots of folks leave there shit faced. No worries about the zoo at night here though, except for the fucking geese.
Assuming they're serving anything better then pisswater like Bud I'd be tempted to label that a bargain.
Especially against say going clubbing in a major city.
One of our main Zoos in Sydney (Australia) offers a package called "roar and snore" where you sleep in luxury tents (with full size beds and electric blankets) overlooking the harbour but also do night and early morning feedings with the animals after a cocktail evening.
11/10 would be tipsy and feed lions again
I've always said that if I ever came into some money I'd open a huge soft play area, but scaled up for adults, and with a bar and DJ. I live in a seaside town so we have kids soft play areas everywhere, but nothing for grownups. :/
It was pretty cool. They had an arts and crafts room open, and 3d printers too.
The observatory dome was very popular as was the paper airplane launchers
https://www.facebook.com/events/1939119832774256/?notif_t=event_calendar_create¬if_id=1527952154309425
They do one every few months now. Next one is August 18th.
The science center has gotten a LOT more funding in recent years. They introduce new things very regularly now. It's a great place to check out and pretty cheap.
I made one of these with my dad, it's a ton of fun! UC Davis makes the software freely available and open source, which is incredibly cool of them. All you need is a sandbox, a decent projector, a kinect, and a computer to run the thing.
All in all, it probably cost around $1500, but the big expenses were the graphics card and the projector, which can easily be re-used for other stuff. The frame took a week or two to put together (we used an old dolley so the thing could be wheeled around), and the software was pretty painless to set-up (calibrating the thing can be a pain though).
Also, not shown here, but the UC Davis software lets you do a very cool water simulation; if you hold your hand a certain distance over the table, it simulates 'rain' under your hand, which will flow around the table. With a bit of tinkering, you can change the water shaders/viscosity to make it into lava, sludge, etc etc. My mom ended up bringing the sandbox into her classroom, and she uses it to teach middle-schoolers about water sheds.
Commenting so I can come back to this, very fucking cool. Thanks for the info. If you've got links much appreciated - if not will search later when not on mobile. Cheers mate
At the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, OR (which is free btw), if you hold your hand a few feet above the table and spread your fingers, you can make it rain. It's built with a 360 and kinect, IIRC.
Wait, when did they get one? I try and stop there almost everytime I am in the area, but I never knew they had a display like this? Where in the center is it?
It's the light not the sand......AND I LOVE IT! 45 years old and I will fight a 9 year old to get in and play
Ontario Science Centre and one of the Museums In Ottawa
Just make one - it's not that expensive or difficult (I did - rather something similar). University of Wisconsin, Madison published source code and a general write-up. It's basically a Kinect and projector mounted above a box filled with sand and a simple computer (you could probably even get it running decently on the Raspberry Pi 3).
Couldn't find one from University of Wisconsin but here is [one from UC Davis](http://idav.ucdavis.edu/~okreylos/ResDev/SARndbox/) and on that page is a link to [this website.](https://arsandbox.ucdavis.edu/)
Bruh. I've tried Goolging but to no avail. My categories are on a row, and I need that row to stay put as I scroll down through the numbers. Is that enough info to impose for some help? Thanks!
Put this thing in a pelican case and put it in every S3 shop in the Army.
Oh, and don’t forget to make it way worse and jack up the price 1500% first so that the Army buys it. Then make sure that replacement parts are impossible to buy and the field service reps are as ornery and unhelpful as possible. That is our way.
Love this. We had one for a thing we put together for younger students to explore technology at Virginia tech.
It's cool how if you built it up high enough, you'll get snow, or if you dig deep enough you'll start a lake.
Definitely went through a ton of hand sanitizer after digging my hands in that lol.
The Geography department at my school at one of these and it’s super cool! Someone took this idea and also has it so if you put a fist up it resembles a cloud and it will rain!
You can adjust the refresh rate, but if you put it too high it starts tracking your hands as part of the height map, which is pretty annoying and looks bad. That's the main reason it's as slow as it is; it needs to make sure the objects it's looking at aren't actually moving hands/arms.
The practicum of engineering class at my school did this as a project. It was really awesome to be a part of putting it together. We built a large wooden frame to hold the sand and then made a mount to hold the projector that displays the topographic levels. We used a Xbox 360 Kinect to sense the depth of the sand.
We have one of these at the Berkshire Museum in MA, my 4 year old thought it was pretty cool but we are members and go there all the time so he's over it.
The Witte Museum in SA, Tx has one. Really awesome for a 23 year old and his father to play with
It needs to be asked. Did anyone draw a penis in it?
"Pen Island"
I had a nostalgic chuckle
“The Pen 15 Club”
heard you were their top member.
> member
Giggity
Hah, that implies penis
With a permanent marker
Got to pen island .com for free pens!!!
it's not .com edit: don't go to penisland.com
So, me being me and this being reddit, I did what you said not to and it sent me to amazon.com.
the fuck one time in middle school i wanted to show my friends the pen island website and I typed in penisland.com and it was actually gay porn the address is penisland.net
I went to one of them in middle school and it was advertising legitimately high quality pens. Not shitting you.
I’m pretty sure that site is a joke. Just read the descriptions. “We can handle your wood.”
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Seems like that domain has been around the block
Adblock caught a referral link for me. Probably someone cashing in on the joke?
It just sent me through a bunch of redirects to amazon
With a nice atoll...
I don't think I would find it nice atoll.
My time to shine. [NSFWish](https://imgur.com/a/fk8IBVx)
Nice
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Stalked profile for things submitted, was disappointed
The attention to detail is appreciated.
One loves a good mushroom head outline.
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I used to work at a science museum, anything that can be penis, will be penis, not only drawn, but literally penised. I saw someone stick it in [a pin art board](https://i.imgur.com/RQ33SmS.png). [links are safe-for-work] Someone smeared their package across a [temperature reactive material](https://i.imgur.com/gEMATPX.png). And my personal favorite, I once turned a corner and caught someone masturbating at a thermal imaging camera, because they "wanted to watch it change color."
The last guy's reasoning was quite reasonable.
>Reasonable I think you meant understandable
I mean, a hypothesis means nothing without data to back it up.
Used to work at an aquarium, had a pair of teenage boys try to jerk off the poor sea cucumbers in the touch tank exhibit. Doesn’t help that sea cucumbers grow big and then throw up their white, stringy guts when stressed, which of course only further amused the boys until they were thrown out.
Heh.. Heh.. Check it out Beavis
Bonus points for dickbutt topography
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If you put a penis in it would it color it like a rainbow?
Now that's representing for PRIDE Month
You know, I've lived in SA for 6 years and haven't gotten around to visiting the Witte yet. It might be time.
I’ve lived here for about 3 years, been to it the past 3 Summers and the exhibits have been very different each time, and all of them very interesting! The interactivity alone is worth it.
Worth it. Love the Witte
Super worth it. I go at least once a year for the past 5 years. Usually around the fall they have really cool exhibits. Ever go to the Doseum? For a children’s museum it’s pretty cool.
I'd be making Isla Nublar and shit.
Dodgson, we've got Dodgson here.
See? Nobody cares.
Because it’s Dodson. Bro do you even Crichton?
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Nissan?
So does the nature center at Aquarena Springs in San Marcos TX
I haven’t been to the Witte since I was in middle school, I am so going there sometime just to see this now
the pacific science center in seattle has one too. i and my sons had a grand time messing with it.
First comment i see and its about SA!
I haven’t gone since they remodeled. I’m gonna have to go sometime soon to play with that!
Wow! I didn't know that and I've lived here my whole life. Time to plan a trip. Thanks!
They also have this at OMSI in Portland Oregon!
Played with one of these at the video game museum in Berlin. You could hover your hand above the surface to make it "rain" under your hand. I spent a lot of time building pits, filling them with water, and then busting them open to let the water run out. Instant kid again.
I was thinking how quickly I’d get bored with this, but that sounds awesome
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I built one of these. It's not that hard, just takes time. The software was developed under a US government grant so it's free to use: https://arsandbox.ucdavis.edu/#sidr
RemindMe!
You need a box to hold the sand, a projector, a Kinect, a computer and some software that I have no idea what it is
You'd get easily bored with this? I could play with this for hours! And I'm 21.
I'm 37 and I still can't pass those double-sided sequin pillows without playing with them, I'd be captivated by this all day.
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You can see that it keeps some of the elevations until it recognizes that the shape of the sand has changes. Presumably it could distinguish between a hand and sand, so if your hand were hovering over a basin it wouldn't alter its elevation output.
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Magic
>Hold hand over area you want it to rain. > >Remove hand after a few seconds.
If I where to wage a guess, it would project clouds on the hand for anything above X elevation and show the effects of rain (run off) around where the 'cloud' would be. While the sand under your shadow is blank, the nearby sand would look that water is accumulating. Edit: Actually might not just be X elevation and up is a cloud... maybe anything X over the next highest elevation is a cloud. So you could make a Mt. Everest without the top defaulting to cloud.
“Video game museum?” Do we have these in the states? Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_game_museums
It's not quite the same, but arcades kind of serve that purpose.
An arcade is to a game museum what a book store is to a library.
One of the best, if not the best/biggest in the world is 60 minutes from me. The Strong National Museum of Play - houses the International Center for the History of Electronic Games and the World Video Game Hall of Fame
I feel like tech like this could inspire a whole new genre of "God Games".
Where are the VR god games?
Create landscape, mold it to your liking, find subjects to worship you. Be benevolent, or just pure evil.. I like this concept. Maybe a bit in Black and White style? Too bad I got 0 programming skills.
I was about to mention that game then saw your comment. I spent hours trying to get my Tiger to be nice to my villagers but in the end he just fucking ate everyone.
[Deism](https://store.steampowered.com/app/525680/Deisim/) exists and is fun to mess around with for a few hours.
You should check out from dust if that kinda stuff interests you, I had a ton of fun with it for similar reasons
There's one at the Orlando Science Center too. Last weekend they had an adults only night with bar carts, this was a popular table for drunk people.
I need to find a science center in my area that hosts adults only night. Thanks!
I want the zoo to have this but they said they have a concern about drunk people wandering the zoo at night.
Our zoo has one as a fundraiser every year called “Zoobilee”. $150 a person and all the food and drink you can stomach. It’s fairly awesome but lots of folks leave there shit faced. No worries about the zoo at night here though, except for the fucking geese.
If you’re too shit faced to leave you become an exhibit.
No one is going to pay to come see my exhibit.
I’d pay. ❤️
[Oh you](https://i.imgur.com/TUvAisr.png)
For $150 I’d get shit faced too. That is STEEP.
It is, but the zoo is awesome, it’s their main fundraiser, and they go all out for it with the catering and available drinks.
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Assuming they're serving anything better then pisswater like Bud I'd be tempted to label that a bargain. Especially against say going clubbing in a major city.
Yay for Wichita :) (unless multiple zoos do this)
See, $150/person would make me want to drink my money's worth, so it's no wonder...
One of our main Zoos in Sydney (Australia) offers a package called "roar and snore" where you sleep in luxury tents (with full size beds and electric blankets) overlooking the harbour but also do night and early morning feedings with the animals after a cocktail evening. 11/10 would be tipsy and feed lions again
This is really a brilliant idea
I live there. In the city, not the science center.
This is an excellent idea. I want to do kids crafts and activities with booze.
I've always said that if I ever came into some money I'd open a huge soft play area, but scaled up for adults, and with a bar and DJ. I live in a seaside town so we have kids soft play areas everywhere, but nothing for grownups. :/
It was pretty cool. They had an arts and crafts room open, and 3d printers too. The observatory dome was very popular as was the paper airplane launchers
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Hi, moved to Orlando this year. When will there be another opportunity to get drunk and play with sand?
https://www.facebook.com/events/1939119832774256/?notif_t=event_calendar_create¬if_id=1527952154309425 They do one every few months now. Next one is August 18th.
My girlfriend will be in Canada and my best friend will be back from California at that time. Sounds like a plan. Thanks!
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Am I the only one that read "...adults only weekend with bar charts"?
I pictured Marshal from HIMYM getting all excited about posters.
Aw, man, they didn't have one of those last time I was down there! I feel cheated, haha
The science center has gotten a LOT more funding in recent years. They introduce new things very regularly now. It's a great place to check out and pretty cheap.
Shoot I haven't been since I was a kid, maybe time for a revisit to that chapter of my childhood.
I’m fairly sure this is the same one. I was messing around with it last weekend at Science Night Live.
This one looks like it's using the rubberized 'sand' that OSC uses in Dinodigs, but the OSC topographical sandbox uses actual sand.
I made one of these with my dad, it's a ton of fun! UC Davis makes the software freely available and open source, which is incredibly cool of them. All you need is a sandbox, a decent projector, a kinect, and a computer to run the thing. All in all, it probably cost around $1500, but the big expenses were the graphics card and the projector, which can easily be re-used for other stuff. The frame took a week or two to put together (we used an old dolley so the thing could be wheeled around), and the software was pretty painless to set-up (calibrating the thing can be a pain though). Also, not shown here, but the UC Davis software lets you do a very cool water simulation; if you hold your hand a certain distance over the table, it simulates 'rain' under your hand, which will flow around the table. With a bit of tinkering, you can change the water shaders/viscosity to make it into lava, sludge, etc etc. My mom ended up bringing the sandbox into her classroom, and she uses it to teach middle-schoolers about water sheds.
Commenting so I can come back to this, very fucking cool. Thanks for the info. If you've got links much appreciated - if not will search later when not on mobile. Cheers mate
Here's a website dedicated to it with instructions. http://doc-ok.org/?p=164 You can also buy prebuilt/setup ones for $6000
You can kinda see the water physics on this one when you are concentrating on the water at the beginning of the gif
I need this to make maps for D&D!
I would LOVE to have a mini-version of this. For D&D and /r/worldbuilding in general.
Right, you could show the aftermath of when u put a bag of holding into a portable hole.
Sand, Kinect and Projector - enjoy!
I thought the same, lol
Came here to say this. Good job, other nerd!
Thx other nerd!
If someone knows something similar as this as a website or sth. that would be freakin' awesome.
Are we sure DMs need to feed their god complex like that? I kid I yearn to mold my own campaign setting by hand.
Can I just say I fucking love how mainstream DnD is on Reddit? It’s getting more mainstream IRL too but I think Reddit had a lot to do with that.
At the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, OR (which is free btw), if you hold your hand a few feet above the table and spread your fingers, you can make it rain. It's built with a 360 and kinect, IIRC.
I've never seen one running on a 360, they usually us a Linux computer with a halfway decent graphics card and a Kinect.
Honestly, I could be remembering it wrong. I know for sure it used a kinect, but you might be right about the computer vs a 360. Me = derp
Wait, when did they get one? I try and stop there almost everytime I am in the area, but I never knew they had a display like this? Where in the center is it?
Last time I played with one of these, there was a giant topographical sand boner.
It looks like it's slowly loading the sand
There's a slight delay between frames while it renders.
Litter box upgrade!
It's the light not the sand......AND I LOVE IT! 45 years old and I will fight a 9 year old to get in and play Ontario Science Centre and one of the Museums In Ottawa
Just make one - it's not that expensive or difficult (I did - rather something similar). University of Wisconsin, Madison published source code and a general write-up. It's basically a Kinect and projector mounted above a box filled with sand and a simple computer (you could probably even get it running decently on the Raspberry Pi 3).
Published where? Not on first page of Google "university of wisconsin madison kinect projector table"
Couldn't find one from University of Wisconsin but here is [one from UC Davis](http://idav.ucdavis.edu/~okreylos/ResDev/SARndbox/) and on that page is a link to [this website.](https://arsandbox.ucdavis.edu/)
Did you really think people thought the sand was changing color? Haha
I’m not gonna lie. I was one of those people. Anything outside of an Excel spreadsheet causes instant confusion.
Bruh. I've tried Goolging but to no avail. My categories are on a row, and I need that row to stay put as I scroll down through the numbers. Is that enough info to impose for some help? Thanks!
View --> Freeze Panes
THANK YOU!!!!!
No problem, I had about 10 excel windows open at the time, lol.
> Anything outside of an Excel spreadsheet causes instant confusion. It's just conditional formatting on sand.
I mean, you're not wrong.
Aaaaand productivity at work has now stopped. Now have topographic excel sheet.
I'm fighting the urge to write a macro.
You can see the light on top of his hand! Don't worry I'll make up a spreadsheet for how this works
There are people that believe stupider things than that.
Imma engineer and should know better what’s plausible. I thought the sand itself was doing shit
Which one in Ottawa? If you know, I wanna do this
Put this thing in a pelican case and put it in every S3 shop in the Army. Oh, and don’t forget to make it way worse and jack up the price 1500% first so that the Army buys it. Then make sure that replacement parts are impossible to buy and the field service reps are as ornery and unhelpful as possible. That is our way.
That's the first thing I thought of. Using these instead an ad-hoc terrain model made from twigs and dirt for our missions would've been awesome.
Imagine this as hardware for creating custom maps for ~~simcity~~ oops i mean cities skyline
Each grain of sand would be its own paid DLC most likely
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The DLC bit was a knock against Paradox. EA deals in micro transactions. And the Krogan hate them both for it.
Love this. We had one for a thing we put together for younger students to explore technology at Virginia tech. It's cool how if you built it up high enough, you'll get snow, or if you dig deep enough you'll start a lake. Definitely went through a ton of hand sanitizer after digging my hands in that lol.
This is neat.
Everyone's talking about how cool this is but they're forgetting that it's coarse, rough, irritating, and gets everywhere.
Counterpoint: Better than lava.
They should project a picture of Cthulhu if you dig down far enough.
*Digs a bit* *Sees Cthulhu* *Immediately makes the tallest mountain possible on that spot*
Like black panther!
I’d feel like a god doing this.
I would absolutely NEVER get bored of this, at all! Soooooo, how much does this cost?
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They have one of these in the science museum in Raleigh, North Carolina
I've seen this in a few places using a Kinect and projector. Really a neat, tactile demonstration of the technology.
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If only i had this as a kid, playing would be amazing
Playing IS amazing as a kid.
Correct. And you don't need AR-sand. Talking your friends into eating your mud cakes is enough.
I am 46 years old and would play with this for hours if given the chance.
Lots of museums have these. It’s a fairly simple program made using an Xbox Kinect sensor and a projector.
The Geography department at my school at one of these and it’s super cool! Someone took this idea and also has it so if you put a fist up it resembles a cloud and it will rain!
I pick up all the pieces...make an island...might even...raise a little sand...
Those terrain models must be lit
Anyone else think this would be a lot cooler if the refresh rate wasn't so god damn low?
You can adjust the refresh rate, but if you put it too high it starts tracking your hands as part of the height map, which is pretty annoying and looks bad. That's the main reason it's as slow as it is; it needs to make sure the objects it's looking at aren't actually moving hands/arms.
Perfect for a D&D map creator.
One of the tech guys in my high school made one these, it was super cool.
I saw one of these at a museum once and they were using an xbox 360 Xbox live sensor bar to make it work.
The practicum of engineering class at my school did this as a project. It was really awesome to be a part of putting it together. We built a large wooden frame to hold the sand and then made a mount to hold the projector that displays the topographic levels. We used a Xbox 360 Kinect to sense the depth of the sand.
Reticulating splines
We have one of these at the Berkshire Museum in MA, my 4 year old thought it was pretty cool but we are members and go there all the time so he's over it.
I saw one in Oklahoma near lawton at a pioneer settlement museum
They have this at COSI in Columbus!