Math teacher and YouTube user School of Fish shows us how to derive the formula for the path made by a pen as it traces a hypotrochoid pattern. TRIGGER WARNING: If you were severely traumatized by math in high school, … Continue reading →
A video about drawing mandalas by hand for fun, as an exercise for creativity or self-expression, or as a form of meditation. Any parallels with how you use spirograph? Psst: in the video they’re using Stabilo 88 pens, the kind … Continue reading →
The first post featuring a reader’s spirograph artwork! Raffaella (a.k.a. Norma as she calls herself in our comments) is a fifty-year-old amateur photographer living in Italy. She writes: I’ve liked Spirograph from childhood, but I bought my first Spirograph just … Continue reading →
In case you’ve lost the cover of your old Spirograph set, or the booklet showing the patterns, or maybe you’ll just find this handy, I’ve re-created the pattern guide showing the patterns created by Hole #1 of each of the … Continue reading →
Before delving into this article, you may want to read the Wild Gears page so that you know what it’s about. Differences due to how they are made The manufacturing methods are very different for the two products. Wild Gears … Continue reading →
Here are some designs made with Wild Gears triangle 48 (78/18) in ring 84, exploring the patterns generated by choosing different lines of four holes. Shop Wild Gears here
Continue reading →These designs all use Wild Gears’ 210-tooth ring, and are 8″ in diameter. Some details are in the captions. Many of them explore the possibilities of the 120 triangle gear. Shop Wild Gears here I took the second last image … Continue reading →
The cloverleaf is my favorite Super Spirograph arrangement because it is so curvy. The larger wheels do very interesting things as they go from concave to convex to concave again. To make it fit on a regular piece of paper, … Continue reading →
Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to know: How can you predict how many points (or “petals”) a spirograph pattern will have? There IS a formula. You need to know the number of teeth on the wheel and the … Continue reading →
Here’s another pen that I’ve been enjoying with both Spirograph and Wild Gears: PaperMate’s InkJoy. They come in different qualities from the 100 series to the 700 series, with the difference more in the shape and quality of the barrel. … Continue reading →
