Monday, April 02, 2007

spinning wheels

remember this?

Spirograph Box

i just rediscovered the joy of spinning wheels and loop de loops, a.k.a. hypotrochoids and epitrochoids for you math heads out there. here is my first attempt:

Spirographs

next up: i have to get my hands on a set of fashion plates, one of my favorite toys as a kid.


5 comments:

Anonymous said...

We had both of those growing up. I personally preferred the fashion plate toy. Apparently you can still find it on EBay.

annie-san said...

you gotta love ebay... thanks for the tip!

Anonymous said...

You'll never run out of ink with this one... enjoy!
http://wordsmith.org/~anu/java/spirograph.html

Anonymous said...

oh... that's FUN! thanks, z.

Ashbloem said...

I loooooooved spirographs. Now I want one again. :(