Smith also shows off some impressive red stone machines he's made; one fires TNT crates into an enormous target which explodes and reveals a massive sculpture of an enderman modelled out of obsidian.
Although some stone machining processes has been already covered in the STEP-NC research and standardization initiatives (as for instance stone machining through stone milling machines), there have not been yet, however, any detailed model proposal to cover circular sawblade stone cutting operations.
And he has no regrets despite the massive disparity between his gig fees and the millions the Stones' machine churns out each time they tour.
The deadly stabbing at the Rolling Stones' Altamont festival four months later, while shocking and disturbing at the time, was, in retrospect, caused by a cascade of bad decisions on the part of the Stones' machine; violence was predictable.
But Richard Williams's book, Kind of Blue, in the spirit of the original record, suggests connections – to Terry Riley, La Monte Young, Steve Reich, John Cale, the Velvet Underground, James Brown, Sly Stone, Soft Machine, Brian Eno, Manfred Eicher and the ECM Records label, Moby and more – that readers can assimilate and then make their own associations.
Experimental studies were carried out using a specially designed, fully automatic circular sawblade stone cutting machine and numerical modelling studies were performed with a commercially available software called PFC3D.
That is the case in stone cutting machines manufacturing business, where maintenance is a critical factor because of the high customization of each machine and because of the variety and difference of the working conditions for similar machines.
You feel like you have stones against machine guns.
"You feel like you have stones against machine guns," Wenger said.
They did this by constructing a unique piece of laboratory equipment -- a stone-skipping machine -- at the Research Institute for Out-of-Equilibrium Phenomena in Marseille.
