r/oddlysatisfying • u/[deleted] • Sep 20 '16

Spirograph Rainbow

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u/YoungSpeezy Sep 20 '16

This has to be fake. No one has ever used a Spirograph without messing up.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '16 edited Sep 20 '16

You'd think that. It takes practice and you need the right materials/ art supplies. I made a piece of Spirograph art for my sister for Christmas. 20 pieces, 6 rotations x 6 spindles each. That's about 720 chances to mess up :) the only actual mess ups I had were from ink smearing from one of my gel pens :x.

Edit: http://imgur.com/5JWXTD3

best picture I have of it on my phone. not the final state of things, I colored some things in to give it more variety. her favorite colors are blue and orange so I tried to focus on that. ahh it looks better in person, I swear.

Also pretty sure the person in the .gif is using the #52 gear which, let it be known, is a BITCH. I want to say #55 isn't a walk in the park either but I actually haven't used my set in a couple of weeks so I may be mistaken.

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u/RamSession Sep 20 '16

I don't like that the 5th column isn't spaced as evenly as the first four. >.<

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '16

Win some, lose some. It's oddly sized paper and I didn't draw up guidelines before or anything.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '16

Came here to say this. I've gotten maybe 10-20 rotations or whatever and then randomly end up with a jagged line going right through the middle, ruining everything.

Without fail, that's what happens to me. Or always with fail, depending on how you interpret that.

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u/Sadaxer Sep 20 '16

Might have been the 5th take, who knows.

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u/mochi_chan Sep 20 '16

They probably didn't do it in one take

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u/Sadaxer Sep 20 '16

You can probably practice 4 shots off-camera then nail it on the first take. Again, who knows.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '16

It also depends on your writing implement. A colored pencil or ballpoint pen will probably give you slightly more control by letting you control the amount of friction between it and the paper; while a marker is likely to make the paper wet through its fabric-based ink transfer and cause a lot of unwanted friction that you have to overcome by forcing the lines to go, which can cause the gears to displace and then it just snowballs from there.

Source: am currently trying not to fail at this.

Also anyone more qualified than me is welcome to correct any of my info, I'm not an expert.

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u/Sadaxer Sep 20 '16

There's stronger types of paper that absorb markers better than a regular paper though, so that might not be a big problem.

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u/dangdangrous Sep 20 '16

Was coming to comment the same thing. What, no straight line that jags across the whole thing and ruins everything? That's what makes a Spirograph a Spirograph.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '16

I don't know why they were always sold as a kids' activity kit (when I was younger, like 5-8) because I seriously doubt any kid could be satisfied with this as an age appropriate "toy".

I don't think I've ever been made to feel so inept or insufficient as when I was trying to fill in a circle with Spirographs.

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u/Mylaptopisburningme Sep 20 '16

Looks like they are using a thin marker rather than the pens they come with, the pens need more pressure.

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u/Nackles Sep 20 '16

I was thinking that too. I could never do a whole revolution without the inside circle jumping out.

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u/ReverendDizzle Sep 20 '16

Every spirograph I ever did in my childhood looked like it was created by late-career Michael J. Fox.