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Art Recipe 5: Exploring New Techniques: Center Secured

11/2/2019

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I was inspired by some posts in reddit.com/r/spirograph by u/HomegrownTomato.

These three posts inspired me to try and understand this technique:
  1. Funky epitrochoid.
  2. Here is another hypo/epi trochoid pair.
  3. I had a sick day yesterday so I may gob out our sub today. Here are two sister drawings where I just reversed the pen hole order. The different shapes of the inner rings was a fun surprise.
This technique uses:
  • ring (A) as a stationary outer piece,
  • gear (B) placed at the center of the ring (A) that is also held stationary,
  • hoop (C) that is held stationary between ring A and gear B, and moved between each iteration of the simple design.
  • gear (D) that is inside hoop C and is the moving part that that pen is used in.
This description is complicated but this picture will hopefully help.
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Letter labeled setup
In this specific setup gear D makes a square in hoop C.  Once it has been iterated once the next step is to move hoop C by one step.

In the picture above I was returning gear D back to being near gear B so it is easy to lift up hoop C where it touches hoop A and rotate it by one tooth.  Lets call this Outer Stepping

Picture
In progress Outer Stepping example
Picture
completed Center Secured Outer Stepping design

Another way to do this would be to put gear D at the bottom of hoop C near the A label so that the hoop C can be lifted up where it touches gear B and rotated by one tooth. Lets call this Inner Stepping.

With no other changes Outer Stepping and Inner Stepping produce different designs.
Picture
completed Center Secured Inner Stepping technique

The Outer and Inner stepping techniques produce designs that are differently wobbly and folded based on their the relationship between different gear ratios of the 4 parts in the system.

The pieces used in this setup were:

  • 12 gear; in motion (gear D)
  • 64/48 hoop (hoop C)
  • 32 gear; stationary in center (gear B)
  • 160 ring; stationary outer piece (hoop A)

How Do You Fit a Stationary Gear In The Middle?

This seems like it would be really daunting to find a combination of ring, gear, and hoop that fits together correctly for this technique but there is a simple math answer to the problem.

Add up two times the hoop (C) tooth count and the tooth count of the center gear (B).  This number needs to equal the ring (A) tooth count.  2C+B=A.

So you've found your gear combo.  How to center it?

Place hoop C in ring A and  do your best to put gear B in the middle of the ring A.  This won't be perfectly centered but if you hold down gear B and move hoop C about 90 degrees around the ring and reposition gear B to be snugged up to the hoop again.  By repeating this step at least 4 times it should iteratively center the stationary gear.  Also, while working on the design it may be beneficial to snug the center stationary gear B up to stationary hoop C to keep it really solid and snug.  This is a very small adjustment that is optional but may make things work better.

I found that using magnets and a metal board made this setup work really good.  Using putty, tape, or weights would probably work well too to keep the stationary parts stationary.

Gear Sets used in this recipe:

Plentiful Gear Set (160)
Hoops Gear Set (64/48)
Compact Gear Set (12 & 32)
5 Comments
Sonya Pickens
3/6/2020 07:41:12 am

Can you talk more about this magnet setup you've got going? I NEED THIS!

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William Corbet
3/5/2022 01:21:14 pm

I am very,very upset with you right now you will not respond back to what i ask. I WILL NOT A THING Untill You help on locating the the red medial oblong nesting piece i can not find it any where

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2/8/2023 02:47:28 am

Make it easy for your guests to munch and snack during the party by putting out finger foods on small plates and snacks in small bowls.

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2/8/2023 02:47:52 am

Place the snacks throughout the space so your guests can help themselves. Include a stack of plates and napkins by the snacks as well.

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