User:Vincecate/WaterWalker3

I like the idea of having pairs of buoys connected by a rope going through pulleys that DM8954 came up with and made the animation below.

If I had a 4-leg WaterWalker with buoy pairs on opposite corners and computer controlled brake controlling how much the rope between each pair was allowed to move, I think I could have an amazingly stable platform with just 4 big buoys. In general I don't like active controls but we could have limits on how far the rope could go either way, and if the brake or computer broke it would just tip a certain amount. Could have redundant brakes and computers, and a manual brake.

An alternative is to have a hanging ballast that keeps the platform level and then no brakes or computers would be needed.