A ring with 120 teeth gives a 5-pointed star with gear 48, and gear 24 gives a pentagonal pattern without any crossed lines. (See the math behind the number of points in a hypotrochoid.) These two gears can work well together, … Continue reading →
Here’s a “wild” thing that Wild Gears can do: make designs with a wheel inside an off-center hole in a larger wheel going around inside a ring. This picture shows little wheel 24 inside hole 60 which is in larger … Continue reading →
Scrapbooking Alert! Whether you do paper-and-scissors scrapbooking or digital scrapbooking, Spirograph – and especially Super Spirograph – has great potential. I’ve used Adobe Photoshop on some of the images below, but many imaging processing apps have very cool filters you can … Continue reading →
How to know in advance how many points a given wheel will make in any Super Spirograph layout.
Continue reading →The Super Spirograph rectangle may seem boring compared to, say, the cloverleaf layout, but it can actually be useful. I needed to make a certificate recently, so used Super Spirograph to make a fancy border, then sized it up a … Continue reading →
Aaron Bleakley, the inventor of Wild Gears, has been making videos lately. The chill music and hypnotic, rhythmic motions of the gears are almost as therapeutic as drawing designs yourself. This video shows him making a pattern with parallel lines using his clever … Continue reading →
Guest post and photos by Angelika Holz (a.k.a. Freda Fredriksson) from Germany. Now what to do with all these beautiful little circles? You can scan them and if you are familiar with a graphic program like Photoshop you can recolor … Continue reading →
Here is a video that Aaron Bleakley made for his successful Kickstarter campaign to launch Wild Gears in 2013. The final sheets of gears available differ somewhat from the ones you see here, as he worked out the details as … Continue reading →
Nathan Shields (and his kids) have invented a mechanism for making Spirograph pancakes. Nathan is a math teacher as well as a father and an inventor – and quite the artist as well, especially when his chosen medium is pancake batter. … Continue reading →
I’ve made my first two Spirograph videos! I think that the first one especially gives much more instruction on the fine points than other Spirograph videos I’ve seen. Let me know what you think.
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