Empirically, we found that a prior step parameter of 5 was balanced enough to maintain the shape regularity of the snake, without greatly affecting the time complexity.
Moreover, the initialization, that is, the initial configuration of the snake, strongly influences the shape extracted at the end of the process.
Rather than simply sweeping through the likely axis of the escaping fish's path, these latter cases required more precision in space and time such that the wedge shaped opening of the snake's jaws moving in one plane, met the fish's moving head in another plane.
In [18], a dynamic feedback control law is proposed which controls the body shape and orientation of the snake robot.
On making a bread loaf in the shape of a snake I've tried the snake loads of times, and he just explodes in the oven.
A bronze column in the shape of intertwined snakes (the Serpent column) was created from melted-down Persian weapons, acquired in the plunder of the Persian camp, and was erected at Delphi.
All she could think was to tear a piece of a page from one of the hymnals and fold it into the shape of a snake, which would signify something, though she wasn't sure what, exactly.
Beta, Gamma, and Iota Serpentis form a distinctive triangular shape marking the head of the snake, with Kappa Serpentis being roughly midway between Gamma and Iota.
