Comments on: Wheels on Wheels on Wheels

By: Mike Croucher

Mike Croucher — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:59:27 +0000

There is a Wolfram Demonstration for Spirographs too

http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/Spirograph/

The mathematics is very similar to the wheels on wheels on wheels system.

By: Sue VanHattum

Sue VanHattum — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:48:30 +0000

The plastic version sold in stores was called Spirograph. I’ve been looking to buy it at a second hand store, but no luck so far. I had one when I was a kid, and I enjoyed it.

Check out an online Spirograph at http://learninginmathland.blogspot.com/2009/05/spirograph-math.html

By: Wheels on wheels on wheels « Mesh Mess

Wheels on wheels on wheels « Mesh Mess — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:57:50 +0000

[...] on wheels on wheels Posted in Math by taki on 07/06/2009 Just found this post from Walking Randomly which presents a Mathematica demo of motion path of a point of wheels on [...]

By: MJC

MJC — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:26:51 +0000

Wasn’t there a simple version of this sold many years back- where you had a wheel and many different “inner wheels” that drew different shapes?

You also used different colour pens?

By: Weldon MacDonald

Weldon MacDonald — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:22:19 +0000

Just an amateurs guess, but if you vary the size of the circles you should get similar symmetry patterns up to a point and then they would change to something else. Would that new pattern have the same symmetries? I don’t know.
This is too easy to be new through. For an attempt at something more original, what about varying the radius of the circles with some frequency?