I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't – Magazin für Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.
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My god, these are so captivating. I could watch that trammel of Archimedes all day.
It’s not technically a mechanical animation, but my favorite Wikipedia animation is this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Viscosity.gif
Awesome works. i like the mechanism of Constant-velocity joint
The first one wouldn’t work because it is picking up two legs at a time. Which means it would just fall over. It would have to have at least six legs.
I assume it has the same number and configuration of legs on both sides… much like a spider.
my favorite is the unrolling of pi
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Pi-unrolled-720.gif/200px-Pi-unrolled-720.gif
Good Stuff! More to come?
I think my favorites were #2 and #4.
that’s for this list of mechanical animations. someone plz advise: what free or inexpensive software can one get to create animations like these? thanks!