Gear system modeled and animated in 3D Studio Max 2009

[3nasacova]

Gravity would suck the entire middle out of that thing before you could say gomputer craphics. But, good job dude.

[bryceguy72]

@3nasacova This mechanism exists in a gravity-free, friction-free, laws-of-physics-free world, so it'll work perfectly.

[sgtborup]

@3nasacova actually.. if its placed in a vacuum, then even when its falling, the bottom would not fall out because of the pull of the earth, since a higher mass need greater force, and vice versa, so it would not do anything at all, given the circumstances.

[SuburbanDon]

Scary.

[tmog66]

what the hell. lol. pointless but cool.

[bryceguy72]

@tmog66 Thanks. And cool *IS* the point.

[bryceguy72]

@DonkeyPunchYoBitch It's in space in zero gravity so it doesn't need support.

[JemmetGK]

Do you think it would work in the REAL world?

I mean, you can make ANYTHING work on the computer screen, but I'm a physical kinda' bloke and building a mockup of this on the computer is cool and all.

I'd like to see it physically made.

Maybe I'll do it...

[bryceguy72]

@JemmetGK I doubt this would work in real-life. That's the beauty of computer graphics: I can create virtual mechanisms that can never exist in reality. As with all my 3d stuff, I made it just for fun rather than to design something useful or solve a real-life problem. I think it's cool to watch all those gears go round and round. There is no other purpose to my animations.

[JemmetGK]

@bryceguy72

If it makes you happy and it's not illegal, enjoy.

It's sad to see creative people who showcase their work here and get criticized by lazy louts who aren't creative enough to do better, yet still sound off on YouTube.

I've created models that a company scanned into a computer for animation and I found it amazing what the machine did with it. I'll try to put them up when the company finishes airing the commercials--copyrighted stuff and all that.

Keep up the good work.

[TheMadmanAndre]

@JemmetGK It's doable, as long as you fabricate some sort of chassis to anchor all of the internal parts too, otherwise it'll simply fall to pieces. Make it out of clear acrylic for extra rule of cool.

[deaftodd]

An excellent way of doing graphical representation of a figment of the imagination. Amazing!

[WallesWillerWalla]

would be cool if you made it HD and into an endless loop :) Perfect on the digital picture frame when you're stoned ;)

[AnthonyDerham]

COOLIO! This is way too confusing for me haha

[t100martin]

That's fantastic!

I'm just wondering where you started.

Did you use Maxscript to set up the gears?

I've modelled a planetary gearbox, but setting up the animation is proving difficult.

[bryceguy72]

Thanks for the compliments. Nope, no MaxScript. I created the gears using the built-in RingWave primitive, extruded it, cloned it, and positioned and keyframed the clones to ensure no gear slippage. Then I grouped all of them and made the group rotate inside the giant gear.

[WildStar2002]

Good heavens! You KEYFRAMED all of that! Amazing!

[Astralnaut]

The time and effort it took to create this program I can appreciate greatly.5 stars.

Such beautiful and perfect mathematics.

The very language of the universe itself.