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    Making organic gears - GIF

    Making organic gears. Not the single most useful technique, but still interesting. That's "organic" as opposed to "geometric".




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    It now makes sense but would not have tried this until seeing the video.

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    This is what makes kids want to be engineers but I would hate to do the math.

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    I would call these conjugate gears. They are similar to conjugate cams. Interesting for kinetic art.

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    Nautilus gears.




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