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Thank you for your reply, Bob! I'm quite fascinated of gears and clocks.
My image consists of 512 gears, each fitted with a pinion gear, where the
ratio between the pinion gear and the drive gear is 12.
This means that you have to turn the first gear 12 times around to make the
second gear rotate 360 (12^1) degrees. To make the third gear rotate 360
degrees, you have to rotate the first gear 144 times (12^2), and so on...
And finally, to turn the last gear 360 degrees, you must turn the first gear
12^511 times around... A very slow movement!
Werner
Oslo, Norway
"Bob Hughes" <bob### [at] charter net> wrote in message
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>> Lots and lots of gears.
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> Thought-provoking image, Werner. Wanted to stop reading and looking at the
> group here and give yours a reply since no one had done so yet.
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> Makes me think of either infinity or what they could turning at the end.
> Or maybe more interesting... perhaps they don't move! Like some kind of
> trick of the mind, to think they are in motion but might actually be
> motionless, as is the image itself!
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> Bob Hughes
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