11 Responses:

1. J. Peterson says:

   9 years ago at 5:32 pm

   I keep impulsively scrolling the mouse wheel to zoom in.

2. Andrew says:

   9 years ago at 3:33 am

   Waiting for a turtles fractal

   • margaret says:

     9 years ago at 9:43 am

     it's gears all the way down.

3. Karellen says:

   9 years ago at 3:53 am

   At first I was blown away by this, and then I noticed that the gears change shape as they turn. Now I'm conflicted, and can't figure out if that's cheating or not. Could this be done in a way that's physically plausible?

   • Pavel Lishin says:

     9 years ago at 9:16 am

     No in Euclidean space, as far as I'm aware.

   • jwz says:

     9 years ago at 9:39 am

     The many-angled ones who dwell at the bottom of the Mandelbrot set got no time for your Cartesian jibba-jabba.

   • Ben says:

     9 years ago at 3:26 pm

     If you view it as a 2D representation of a 3D arrangement, then it seems possible. The gears aren't deforming, they're sloped away from the camera. The gear train is getting progressively further away with the greatest distance at the sigmoid.

     • jwz says:

       9 years ago at 3:28 pm

       I don't think that works. Multiple vanishing points.

       • Ben says:

         9 years ago at 7:00 pm

         Clearly then we can conclude that the animator drew it wrong, not that my theory is incorrect.

4. Engr Md Harun Roshid says:

   9 years ago at 9:26 pm

   how many gears?

   • Rick C says:

     9 years ago at 8:33 pm

     All of them.