[High Praise! to Nathan Friend]
The fun in this assumes you are at least passing-familiar with the Spirograph drawing toy.
I’ve actually used one, in all its frustrating glory, so I love that you don’t have the heartbreaking misery of gear slippage with this.
Anyway, I want to point out that on the left hand side, there is a grey bar, whose purpose is not intuitive. Slide that up and down to reveal more gears.
Also, I have no idea how to put the little gear on the outside of the ring. If anyone figures that out, leave a comment.
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Used both Spirograpgh and, I seem to remember, Super Spirograph, as a kid.
Note to 4of7:
This is what keeps throwing me on your designs. They emphatically do NOT follow a mathematically-predictable path, which goes against all Spirograph-taught expectations. Curse you, Spirograph! !!!!!
When I was a kid my Spirograph set had a little football-shaped gear. I was pretty disappointed when I couldn’t find it on here
Gear slippage was always a crying shame. Usually when you got something 4of7-like going–all of a sudden, slip! blarg
“4of7-like”?
All right! I’ve become an adjective! š
Note to Oppo: I try to be mathematically precise, but not necessarily mathematically predictable. š
Switch from rotating to fixed (upper left corner).
(It’s gonna take all day to stop playing with this…)
@5 Steve H – not quite what I was hoping for. I can put a gear on the outside of another gear, but I can’t put a gear on the outside of a ring. It defaults to inside when you choose the ring. But the ring has teeth on the outside, so I should be able to have the gear rotate around the outside of it, shouldn’t I?
Using this, I totally feel “4of7-like”.
It’s kinda awesome.
Do you feel this awesome *all* the time, 4of7?
#7 – Anonymiss,
Every time we accomplish a task successfully, we give ourselves a little reward of endorphins. (It’s Science!)
That’s why success makes us feel happy.
When I’m drawing, I get a jolt of endorphins with every line I draw, every block of color I apply.
Since my average picture contains hundreds of lines and blocks of color, by the time I finish each one, I’m higher than a kite!
Yeah, it feels pretty awesome, I guess. š
“Every time we accomplish a task successfully, we give ourselves a little reward of endorphins.”
And thus, my 9 posts a day here š