Morphing mechanisms
Video | 4 months ago
Files for the linkage design: https://www.printables.com/model/1637859-transforming-cubeoctahedron-linkage Files for the geared design: https://www.printables.com/model/1644298-transforming-cubeoctahedron-geared-mechanism Liao, Kiper, and Krishnan's paper: ...
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Expanding in three dimensions
Video | 8 months ago
A followup to my video on expanding racks: here's a mechanism that expands in all three dimensions. 3d printing files for the NbO net expanding racks design: https://www.printables.com/model/1530689-3d-expanding-racks-nbo Zometool: https://www.zometool.com/...
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Alpha Omega d24
Short | 11 months ago
Available from https://www.mathartfun.com/DiceLabDice.html See thedicelab.com for more on our dice. The equation I used for set dressing is apparently the Lagrangian of the standard model, see http://nuclear.ucdavis.edu/~tgutierr/files/stmL1.html
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Expanding racks
Video | 1 years ago
Some expanding mechanisms, made with rack and pinion mechanisms. Files to make an expanding 3-4-5 triangle: https://www.printables.com/model/1305045-expanding-3-4-5-triangle You can also use copies of some of the parts to make expanding sticks and square gr...
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Geared icosahedron net
Video | 1 years ago
Engineering challenges of making an icosahedral version of our geared cube net mechanism. Eric Vergo's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@evergo Thanks to JLC3DP for printing the prototypes for this project. If you check them out, please use this lin...
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Half of a scissor linkage
Video | 1 years ago
A geared mechanism that acts like half of a scissor linkage. 3D printing files: https://www.printables.com/model/1051980-half-of-a-scissor-linkage
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Orbiform d4: Constant width dice
Video | 2 years ago
A d4 that rolls! Available from https://mathartfun.com/DiceLabDice.html Patrick Robert's website: http://www.xtalgrafix.com/Spheroform.htm Shaun Bentley's blog post: https://www.goengineer.com/blog/math-and-art-smooth-rollers-solidworks Grand Illusion's vid...
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Wild knots
Video | 2 years ago
A video about some infinitely complicated, fractal knots. The paper by Ralph Fox is: "A remarkable simple closed curve", Ann. of Math., (2) 50, 264-265. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1969450 Hsin-Po Wang (https://www.instagram.com/symbolone1) came up with th...
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5-Player Go First Dice
Short | 2 years ago
5-Player Go First Dice are available from https://www.mathartfun.com/dSpecial.html Our five player set was discovered by Paul Meyer. Carl Hoff and I did the 3D design and they were produced by The Dice Lab, which is Robert Fathauer and me. The positioning o...
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Six axis racks
Video | 2 years ago
A kinetic sculpture in which 12 sticks with 24 racks interact with 12 gears. Print one yourself: https://www.printables.com/model/736088-six-axis-racks Print the diagonal racks demo: https://www.printables.com/model/736078-diagonal-racks-demo
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Real-life fractal tree zoom
Video | 2 years ago
3D print supplied by JLC3DP. Check them out at https://jlc3dp.com/?from=henry to let them know you came from my video. Fractal Tree No. 2, by Robert Fathauer. http://www.robertfathauer.com/FractalTree2.html Copyright 2007 Robert Fathauer, used with permissi...
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d5
Short | 2 years ago
The Dice Lab dice are available from https://www.mathartfun.com/DiceLabDice.html
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