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How the Geneva Drive (the mechanical step that makes the second hand on a clock work by turning constant rotation into intermittent motion) works.

thelynnfiles

Oh snap!

cutlerish

As an engineer, this makes me happy.

thefurrynerd

If only one loop of this gif were equal to one second…

endoshan

easy peasy

aibohphobia

watching this while listening to a clock ticking is the best decision i have ever made

puppybeargf

sonbr

You may like this amazing web page then: https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/ It’s a full break down of how a mechanical watch works, every single part including a complication. Every diagram is interactive and beautifully put together. It’s a fantastic read, fun to play with and really informative.

eightyonekilograms

Seconding this recommendation, and in fact this person’s entire blog: he has multiple of these explainers and they’re all good.

In particular, if you’re a programmer who finds floating point numbers to be exotic dark magic, I strongly recommend his Exposing Floating Point post. There are many guides/tutorials on floating point arithmetic out there but IMO this is the best one and makes them really not seem so difficult by the end of it (or at least, all their counterintuitive behavior now makes sense).

ambersephone

we saw you from across the bar and hated your vibe

cherryitadraws

keep that furnace fed with the fossils of the dead...

jadeandquartzes

[id: art from hadestown, depicting many of the characters within a gilded portrait frame. the background shows a red sky and smoking industrial stacks. persephone stands at the top of the image, wearing a black dress, with a mournful expression. a red flower blooms beneath her, with orpheus standing in front of it, holding a smaller one. at the bottom of the image, the three fates follow behind eurydice, who is walking in the opposite direction from orpheus. her coat blows around her and a bird flies in her wake. a blue thread loops around all four of them. end id.]

gorgynei

god i love hadestown so much and this recording is next level. oh my god. oh my GOD.

raccoon-sex-dungeon

SUCH A GOOD PROSHOT !! i normally have gripes when they change the camera/angles frequently bc i want to be able to see the whole stage as if i were at the theater, but. they did such a good job with it in this filming! the editing was so dynamic & in tune with the actors’ movements that it elevated rather than distracted

imissthembutitwasntadisaster

Watching any movie before 2000 reminds you that people in movies used to be hot but like in a normal way

beardedmrbean

vedurnan

i was on the phone with my father earlier today talking about videogames (typical for conversation with my father), i was telling him about my lord of the rings online character who i imagine is a horse-thief from rohan and my father said “i imagine that is a very serious crime in rohan” with real concern in his voice

olivegardenarchive

hermes in hadestown is the exact opposite of an unreliable narrator. a tortured narrator. a little *too* reliable. incredibly aware of exactly what is happening at any given moment, vaguely spoiling it for you in the beginning, despairing every second of it. but ultimately motivated to continue to tell the story over and over and over with a smiling face for the sake of the audience, and for the sake of the characters themselves, singing it again to keep them alive. knowing how it will end, but singing it again so that the cycle may restart and eurydice may come back to life. enduring the misery of it all, over and over, holding the knowledge of what will come to pass but continuing anyway to see orpheus happy just one more time before it all goes down in flames again.