Orrey by blurededge
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Description
An orrey is a mechaincal model of the universe. A type of clock that's tuned to astromomical events. This one was inspired by a picutre of an 18th century orrey I found on the web (london museum website), and was used in a childrens learning video I worked on. The most interesting part is how it was animated; entirely by expressions, based on the mass of a driving weight and gravity, the whole thing works correctly automatically. Have to buy the video to see it in action though, along with a half dozen other expression-driven rube goldberg devices. Check it out at www.newtoninabottle.com (yeah, shameless plug, sorry)
Comments (10)
ivyroses
cool idea :) I wont ask how long this took to model
jeweldragon
DAMNN looks real i really like it!!
Im4Angels
Outstanding!!! Like jewel said, looks real!! Fantastic.
beyondMyth
wow!! and a really cool idea!! makes you think :-) ,, keep it up!! :-) ,, peace
hartcons
The end of Tomb Raider the movie features an orrey.
RobinOberg
yeah, cool! and with lightwave you can animate the textures/surfaces on the individual planets/sun(s) :)
PC_Master
Great work!
KateTheShrew
neat. I thought I was the only one who remembered Rube Goldberg. =)
MikeJ
I really like this. A mechanical representation of a not-so-mechanical action. Very cool. :)
LQNova
Ah, reminds me of the one we had in school ... that no one could touch under pain of death!