Why am I not surprised the Demaines are behind this? They're a hilarious father-son team at MIT.
I worked next to Martin (the father) at CSAIL one summer. He excitedly ushered me and some friends into his office one day to show us all a new video he had finished shooting with Erik. It was a real-life demonstration of some algorithmic problem about rolling a cube over a pattern on the ground. In the video, Martin proceeded to put on a helmet and then climb into a box which Erik then rolled everywhere. And by 'rolled', I mean, tipped the cube up onto its edge to have it come crashing down onto a new face (with Martin inside, sometimes upside down). It was very funny.
Also, looks like Ron Rivest of RSA fame is an author.
I worked next to Martin (the father) at CSAIL one summer. He excitedly ushered me and some friends into his office one day to show us all a new video he had finished shooting with Erik. It was a real-life demonstration of some algorithmic problem about rolling a cube over a pattern on the ground. In the video, Martin proceeded to put on a helmet and then climb into a box which Erik then rolled everywhere. And by 'rolled', I mean, tipped the cube up onto its edge to have it come crashing down onto a new face (with Martin inside, sometimes upside down). It was very funny.
Also, looks like Ron Rivest of RSA fame is an author.