Hi!
I was testing, how well can an arc of ellipse follow an involute. So I constructed a gear.
Note that here, the gears made of that very sketch are shown. There is no true involute on these pictures, sorry!
Then, I was testing, how well do the gears mesh, and arrived at this nice picture:
Not that it is any kind of useful, but looks quite cool IMO
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Fitting ellipse to involute
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Re: Fitting ellipse to involute
It's beautiful, and don't worry, someone will find a way to make it useful
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Re: Fitting ellipse to involute
thanks!
Re: Fitting ellipse to involute
Beware, you are just one step away from becoming an architect, deepsoic!