p i n u p s p a c e » jansen mechanism http://www.tedngai.net Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:55:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 jansen mechanism http://www.tedngai.net/experiments/jansen-mechanism.html http://www.tedngai.net/experiments/jansen-mechanism.html#comments Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:09:08 +0000 ted http://www.tedngai.net/blog/?p=264 A grasshopper mockup of Theo Jansen’s mechanism of his Strandbeest based on very simple geometries. The same technique can be applied to model / simulate motions of other types of mechanical movements. This particular mechanism uses a number of variables controlling the length and proportion between the individual members to create different kinds of walking motion.

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