Wheel-Within-a-Wheel Exploration with Wild Gears
Exploring the wheel-within-a-wheel patterns gives insight into how these complex patterns form.
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Video: Loopy Wheel-Within-a-Wheel Design
I keep trying new combinations of Wild Gears to make “wheel-within-a-wheel” designs. Here is a lacey, loopy one, shown on video and also available as a colouring page.
Continue reading →Two Wheel-Within-a-Wheel Videos
Two videos of making the same amazing full-page Wild Gears design using different colour combinations. Which do you prefer?
Continue reading →Fountain Pens, Zentangle and Wild Gears
Samantha learned about Wild Gears on this site, jumped on board Aaron’s Kickstarter campaign and got herself some sets. Now she combines them with her love of fountain pens and zentangle art. She created a thread on a forum dedicated to … Continue reading →
Wild Gears Video: Two Wheel-Within-a-Wheel Patterns
I’m endlessly fascinated with what happens when you draw with a small gear inside one of Wild Gears’ asymmetrical holes in a larger gear, driving that larger gear inside an even larger ring. Maybe you have to watch a video … Continue reading →
New Wild Gears Video: Wheel-Within-a-Wheel
I made a new video about making three different wheel-within-a-wheel designs using Wild Gears. It’s my personal number one cool thing to do with Wild Gears. I haven’t figured out how to predict the results yet. Just experiment. For more examples, … Continue reading →
Wild Gears: Wheel Within a Wheel
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 →