Recent content by dmcmd

you're right. That would make more sense.

I've tried to build them myself from scratch, and I'd like to understand their motion better rather than just guess at construction. While looking at kinetic sculptures, they appear, deep down, just to be clocks, with pendulums and escapements, with most of the pendulums rotating as I described...

Thank you for pointing me in this direction

Hi all, This is a question that has been bothering me and applies to kinetic sculptures. Let's say you have a wheel. The wheel is situated in the vertical plane (like a clock hanging on the wall). For the sake of easy math, let's say the wheel has a radius of 1m, and has the entirety of it's...