That reminds me on the animations I created quite some years ago when I first came into contact with Theo Jansen's "strandbeest"s.
I digged into my archive and found the files (and also found a small mistake when I looked at the sheet 🙂
The file is not really well documented but I provide it here anyway in case somebody is still interested in the methods used.
Kinematic afficionados may find the time to also create animations for the Klann-linkage and its derivates:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klann_linkage
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Klann-linkange-robot.gif
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klann-Mechanismus
http://www.3d-meier.de/tut17/Spider1/Seite1.html
https://www.diywalkers.com/strider.html
(The animation on the last site looks like a Mathcad-made animation!)
Der Klann-Mechanismus ist ein planarer Mechanismus, der das Aussehen eines Tiers mit Beinen simuliert und das Rad ersetzt. Der Mechanismus besteht aus einem „Bein", das in Kontakt mit dem Boden kommt, einer Kurbel, zwei Kipphebeln und zwei Stangen, die alle durch schwenkbare Verbindungen gekoppelt
The Klann linkage is a planar mechanism designed to simulate the gait of legged animal and function as a wheel replacement, a leg mechanism. The linkage consists of the frame, a crank, two grounded rockers, and two couplers all connected by pivot joints. It was developed by Joe Klann in 1994 as an
@ValeryOchkov wrote:
It is my step machine but for walking not on the floor, but on the ceiling!
Hmmm - looks like my strandbeasts can walk both at the floor and on the ceiling!
But if the machine you posted so many times in various thread really is a step machine, you sure should let it walking around and not standing still at the same place. Or is it just a tool for painting the ceiling in your dacha? 😉
Test for video upload:
Looks like video embedding still is broken
EDIT: Its not broken, one must allow scripts from ooyala.com - hmm!?
But the way to be able to insert a video is more than cumbersome. I had to zoom my screen to 80% to be able to access the button to insert the video - ridiculous! This forum really sucks more and more!
