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How to snakes
Snakes!
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- Brain teaser: Find out how much times she said snake in this video.(9 votes)
- There should be a national snake day. Vote if you agree.(6 votes)
- What number of possibilities do you get for the 10-parts-snake? i got 130.( I didn't count ;)(3 votes)
- Can you make a Mobius snake? That would be awesome :)(2 votes)
- If you could attach them forwards and sideways, that would be possible, but if you look closely, she only rotates the heads on a 2D plane- left and right, not forward and back. So, no :(
But, you could ask her. Maybe she'll make a "Snake 2.0" that can do that. :)(2 votes)
- Where do you get snakes like that?(3 votes)
- I'm really enjoying this film set, all of these are not only incredibly informative but very enjoyable as well. The person who makes these is incredibly talented. I've already watched 17 of them today.(2 votes)
- How many dots are on the blue snakes at0:32?(2 votes)
- what do snakes have to do with math though?(2 votes)
- How many bends can the snake make without crashing into itself. http://www.khanacademy.org/cs/slither/822941639(1 vote)
- she should make the mega where all the green module was on one snake head which of course would be green. xD(2 votes)
- That's really cool, i agree that would be amazing! :3(1 vote)
- where can you get a single pack?(2 votes)
Video transcript
Snakes. Lots and lots of snakes. These snakes are just writhing
with potential, similar parts linked together. They move in a specific
and limited way. Part of the potential of
things is how they break. These snakes break fantastically
into these snake modules. You can put them
back together too, allowing the existence
of the super snake. Super snakes are obviously
desirable for many reasons, besides being
inherently awesome. You can wear them, and
put them on things, and drop them, which I find
amusing for some reason. You can arrange them into a
space-filling, fractal curve, if that's what you
like, which I do. You can even jump snake. But let's not forget. You can make mini-snakes too,
which enables the snake stash, and starting from mini-snake
gives you room to grow. Snake. Snake. Snake. Snake. Snake. Snake. Snake. Snake. Snake. Snake. Snake. They like to bend
into this angle. Who cares what it actually
is, besides about 90 degrees? But it begs the question,
how many ways can I fold this snake if
it has 10 segments? I can notate the way it slithers
back and forth from tail to head, left, right, right,
left, left, right, left. I'm going to call this
string of letters a slither. This is a valid slither. This is an invalid one, since
anyone who's played snake knows that a snake isn't
allowed to run into itself. Given a slither, how can I
tell whether it's-- of course, snake lets you go straight too. So you can do another version of
this that allows going straight and notate it like
this, and wonder whether this snake is
a loser snake or not. Snake. Snake. Snake. Snake. Snake. Snake. Snake. Snake. Snake. Snake. Snake. Snake. Snake. Snake. Snake. Snake. Don't forget to try putting the
snake modules together in ways they were never meant to go. You can mix colors. So in theory, I could be
hiding a secret message in the color pattern
of this snake. But I'm not, because I'm lazy. So it's just the digits of
the binary expansion of pi. Even better, you can attach more
than one segment at a point. I can have a two-headed serpent. I can play the game where I
cut off the heads of a Hydra, adding two more in
the old head's place and see how far that gets me. I can put the snake
modules on my fingertips and have snaky fingers. That's cool too. I can even do super
snaky fingers. Snake. Snake. Snake. Snake. Snake. Snake. Snake. Snake. Snake. Snake. Snake. Snake. Snake. Snake. Snake. Snake. Snake. Snake. Snake. Snake.