Geodesic Gear Sphere
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I did this to demonstrate that a proper arrangement of gears, in a sphere, could, indeed, rotate.
There was some conjecture (in another forum) that the counter-rotation of gears would be locked. Truly, if three adjacent gears were meshed together, then the whole system would lock-up. This image settles the argument! "A picture is worth a thousand words."
Producing the proper association, of a gear and it's neighbors, will ensure that it won't be a locked system.
~Taff
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Very nice work.
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Very interesting, what else wound I expect from you?
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there has to be a lot of thinking behind this one. i saw your geodiscs and models in the warehouse before. where does your addiction to geodiscs come from - seems like your obsessed by these
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@pixero said:
Wow. Amazing. It's almost hypnotic.
Indeed. I just sent you the money you demanded as well
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@castromann said:
there has to be a lot of thinking behind this one. i saw your geodiscs and models in the warehouse before. where does your addiction to geodiscs come from - seems like your obsessed by these
I beg your pardon! - OBSESSED ?
I rather prefer "enamored," if you don't mind.
( "Smitten," "enchanted," "infatuated" or "enraptured" will also do )
~Taff
It's been 40+ years of fascination with the geometry & mathematical derivation of the elements of geodesic domes, which used to be closely-guarded proprietary information.
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@bob-designer said:
Very interesting, what else would I expect from you?
If you do a quick check of my online history, you'd then know "what," indeed....
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@unknownuser said:
I just sent you the money you demanded as well...
So, the subliminal programming worked, then.
Mwah-ha-haaaa...
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Nicely done. Color me impressed.
How do all the axles come together in the middle?
Where does the drive motor fit in?
So no sketchy physics plugin was used?
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I salute your legendary talent.
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@slimdog said:
How do all the axles come together in the middle?"
It's a virtual model -- so, no axles.@unknownuser said:
Where does the drive motor fit in?"
It's a virtual model -- so, no motor.@unknownuser said:
So no sketchy physics plugin was used?"
So, no....
If I were to physically build this, as a sculpture, I'd use an internal geodesic frame/cage, where I'd mount 92 short axle "spindles," pointing outward, at the geodesic vertices.
Only one gear would need to be powered, as all the rest would be "pushed" by that one gear.
Mounting an electric motor, hidden inside the cage, would be trivial.
How to keep kids from sticking their fingers in the gears - now, THAT would be a problem. (I suppose, the adults, too.)
~Taff
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it is wasome
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YOU ARE SICK!
I'm loving it!!!
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This engine could spin the Earth forever ! Just.. speechless, awesome work
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@taffgoch said:
@castromann said:
there has to be a lot of thinking behind this one. i saw your geodiscs and models in the warehouse before. where does your addiction to geodiscs come from - seems like your obsessed by these
I beg your pardon! - OBSESSED ?
I rather prefer "enamored," if you don't mind.
( "Smitten," "enchanted," "infatuated" or "enraptured" will also do )
~Taff
It's been 40+ years of fascination with the geometry & mathematical derivation of the elements of geodesic domes, which used to be closely-guarded proprietary information.
haha! ok i will keep that in mind. whatever your "relationship" with these is - this is simply great and fascinating work
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A simplified SketchUp model is available:
Gears Ball- 3D Warehouse%(#BF0000)[(Clickable image-link, to deviantART
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~Taff
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Hypnotic!
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This is superb!
I wondered the same thing as slimdog when I saw this though. Where would the gears meet and what could be powering it? ( just a thought)
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Cool indeed!
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I'm gratified that you folks are liking this.
I've decided to embark upon striving to learn Adobe Flash. As my first production, I converted this particular animated-gif into an animated-flash (adding sound, as "lagniappe.")
(Clickable image)
I am, right away, impressed with Flash. The SWF-animation has much-higher color resolution (24-bit), yet the jpeg-compression can be adjusted to produce a file no bigger than the animated-GIF. 'Looking forward to learning more about Flash.
-Taff
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