constraint solving
25:22The Fastest Maze-Solving Competition On Earth
25.3M views • 3 years ago
Veritasium
Veritasium visits the Micromouse competition, where small autonomous robots race to solve mazes at extreme speed. It covers the competition's technical history, including fans and ground effect enabling very high-g turns.
20:49How Prince of Persia Defeated Apple II's Memory Limitations | War Stories | Ars Technica
1.5M views • 6 years ago
Ars Technica
In an Ars Technica War Stories episode, Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner describes how he made the game on the Apple II, fighting hardware memory limits and the platform's decline. It covers the rotoscoped animation and the engineering tricks involved.
9:02India's Water Revolution #1: Solving the Crisis in 45 days with the Paani Foundation
1.5M views • 6 years ago
Andrew Millison
Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison visits the village of Garavadi in Maharashtra, India, which took part in the Paani Foundation's Water Cup competition. It shows the water harvesting structures the villagers built in 45 days and how they restored groundwater and the local economy.
31:00ALAIN COLMERAUER L'AVENTURE PROLOG
7K views • 4 years ago
Prolog Heritage
A French-language documentary on the history of Prolog, created in Marseille by Alain Colmerauer in the early 1970s, with interviews of many people involved. It traces the origins of logic programming and later developments of the language.