gears cube

15 years ago

It would feel less like cheating if all the gears meshed, but it's still pretty sweet.

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21 Responses:

  1. porphyre says:
    15 years ago at 2:34 pm
  2. ladykalessia says:
    15 years ago at 3:03 pm

    Did you hear that?

    ...

    That was the sound of 30,000 steampunks orgasming at once.
  3. crasch says:
    15 years ago at 3:16 pm

    Very cool.
  4. colubra says:
    15 years ago at 3:19 pm

    if every gear meshed with every adjacent gear in this sculpture, none of them could turn.
    • jwz says:
      15 years ago at 4:31 pm

      Duh. But other layouts are possible that would look less cheaty.
      • colubra says:
        15 years ago at 4:34 pm

        I am intrigued by this and other ideas of yours, and would wish to subscribe to your newsletter if I didn't already get it.
        Thanks for pointing this neat thing out!
      • gytterberg says:
        15 years ago at 7:30 pm

        I guess. It comes down to something like a sphere packing problem, doesn't it? A certain amount of open space is required. It's true I suppose that the gears could all be more significantly out of round in a coordinated way. Next version maybe.

        And anyway I think it looks awesome and "cheaty" only as far as it looks like it's cheating the subsection pertaining to paper in the laws of physics.
    • eatsoylentgreen says:
      15 years ago at 4:56 pm

      THANK YOU.
  5. morrisa says:
    15 years ago at 3:42 pm

    Wow. They're made of paper.
  6. happyinmotion says:
    15 years ago at 3:56 pm

    Am I the only one who takes one look and thinks: "come on mate, it wouldn't be that hard to cut proper involute profiles on those teeth"?
    • gfish says:
      15 years ago at 4:57 pm

      No. But I'll cut them some slack for being awesome. :)
    • poitoi says:
      15 years ago at 7:27 pm

      hahah!!

      I was actually wondering the same thing... it would make it turn a whole lot more smoothly....
      and jamie... how odes it look cheaty?
      i'm trying to think where could have more meshyness.. but i dont see it.
      ^_^

      freakin awesome though!!
  7. icebluenothing says:
    15 years ago at 5:31 pm

    They need this in the next Hellraiser movie.
  8. inkyblue2 says:
    15 years ago at 7:17 pm

    note that all these shapes (cube, heart, etc.) are special cases since the gears are essentially 2d shapes drawn on a sphere and extruded out from the center to infinity. just cut whatever form you want out of that infinite volume and HOLY CRAP IT ROTATES.

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