[Robotgroup] Bruce Shapiro 2nd attempt

[Paul Atkinson]

I'm sure we can come up with some names that are appropriate for both
the sand and egg art machines. In displaying these and explaining them
to lots of people at lots of events, I always mention Dr. Bruce
Shapiro's site (taomc.com) and give the names of his art work as our
inspiration. I hope it will be correct to do that going forward, since
his work has been an inspiration and his stated purpose (with respect
to Eggbot) is to get kids involved with technology. We share that
purpose - check our mission statement.

To the best of my knowledge, I have only seen 2 pictures that showed
the under-workings of any Dr. Bruce Shapiro's Sisyphus machines. They
were taken by someone in the Dallas Personal Robotics Group at a
museum in Dallas. That particular machine has a multi-sided wooden
base and aluminum legs beneath it. I could easily have misconstrued
that the mechanism was not displayed for any of a number of reasons.
So, if I have contributed to the misunderstanding, I apologize.

Paul Atkinson

On Nov 8, 2007 1:18 PM, Robo Al <sp-18561884 at ggsys.net> wrote:
> I would send him a response stating something like.......
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> We are sorry for any confusion. Any such confusion was completely
> unintentional and that we will work to resolve all of your concerns.
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> We named our art with the intention to give tribute to your original
> work, but now we see how this can be confusing. We will rename our
> work shortly.
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> We have always found your creations inspiring and hope, with your
> permission, to continue using them for our own work. We will try to
> do a better job of giving you credit in the proper manner and
> certainly avoid confusions.
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> We will also list your site as a reference to learn more about the
> works. As you clearly expressed, your site is very educational
> and we have used it as such. We are sorry about the comments related
> to hiding the mechanism, which were based on Sisyphus I. We'll make
> sure that the text in question gets edited in all future signage.
>
> ................ just my thoughts.
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> Alberto
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