3 Wheel Spirograph
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This tool simulates a spirograph consisting of 3 wheels. Download.xls file (59 KB) or .zip file (28 KB) How to use the tool The 3 wheel Spirograph
requires 9 inputs : the radii of the 3 wheels, their speeds and phases.
Key in these in the respective cells to generate the spirographs.
Setting one of the radii or one of the speeds to 0 creates a 2 wheel
spirpograph. Note that the numbers can be positive or negative. For example, see the
screenshot below which shows a 3 wheel spirograph created by setting
all the radii to 1, the speeds to -5, 7 and 1 and all the phases to 0.
The
spirograph shown below
was made setting the radii to 17,2 and 2 and the speeds to 1,17 and
100. All phases were set to 0.
See
this article
by Victor Lua~na Cabal for a good description of spirographs and for
more samples of 2 and 3
wheel spirographs.
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