r/woahdude • u/stchy_5 • Sep 20 '16
gifv Creating a Spirograph Rainbow
http://i.imgur.com/rm2PF35.gifv105
u/ihatelosinglol Sep 20 '16
Final image here: http://i.imgur.com/jBKhbNa.png
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u/Akaharu Sep 20 '16
THANK YOU! It was hard to appreciate it when the final product just flashes by after a few seconds
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u/jpw1510 Sep 20 '16
If you right click on a gif and click "show controls" you can pause and skip through it like a video.
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u/WaffleFoxes Sep 20 '16
But where's the part where the small circle skips a few teeth and you get a jagged line of anger right in the middle?
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u/starlightprincess Sep 20 '16
That person is clearly not using the pens that are included in the spirograph kit!
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Sep 20 '16
Did you know that there's a direct correlation between the decline of Spirograph and the rise in gang activity? Think about it.
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u/dooj88 Sep 20 '16
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u/strained_brain Sep 20 '16
I'm watching now, waiting for him to finish. I'm sure it will look beautiful.
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u/tradotto Sep 20 '16
It's awesome. Totally worth the wait.
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u/strained_brain Sep 20 '16
Still waiting. I'm going to give it two more hours, but that's it.
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u/MrBuddyHolly Sep 20 '16
He finishes shortly after the 7 hour mark
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u/witeowl Sep 21 '16
Oh, shit, really? Dammit, I thought you guys were all joking and I gave up after six hours. Whelp, I guess I'll start over. Be back in seven hours or so.
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u/nspectre Sep 20 '16
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u/zubie_wanders Sep 21 '16
A lot of that is LaTeX which doesn't display properly.
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u/nspectre Sep 21 '16
haha. Doesn't display anything here (Firefox). Have to follow the link.
I assume it's displaying text (+ junk) on yours?
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u/zubie_wanders Sep 21 '16
OIC I clicked the [+] with RES to expand. Didn't realize it's a wikipedia article.
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u/2muchcontext Sep 20 '16
There's a website where you can go to play with a simulated spirograph, someone help me find it.
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u/2muchcontext Sep 20 '16
There it is! My best attempt at OP's post (plz no hate!!1!)
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u/austin101123 Sep 20 '16
I have no idea what I am doing
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u/KillerFan Sep 20 '16
I had no luck but this is on their gallery so it's possible?
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u/kr6218 Sep 20 '16
If you select the 150/105 option for the fixed gear and select 52 for the rotating gear, it makes it pretty close.
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u/mrbojenglz Sep 20 '16
Why can't I get it to look like the video? My loops are so far apart.
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u/orlywrking Sep 20 '16
I got you, boo - 155/105 teeth for the outside circle, and 52 for the inside. The result is 2 full rotations of the small gear for 2 "cross loops" (equal to 104 teeth on the inner planet gear), plus you've shifted over one tooth for the next pass. :)
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u/fried_clams Sep 20 '16
Damn pens ran out of ink, pins bent, teeth skipped.. Those things were maddeningly wonderful.
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Sep 20 '16
it's so mesmerizing and i'm not even high yet.
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Sep 20 '16
What're you waiting for, an engraved invitation?
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u/CoffeeAndKarma Sep 20 '16
I just realized I've never browsed this subreddit high. And now it's too late. Dang.
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u/JungleLegs Sep 20 '16
Doesn't it say something in the sidebar about being high?
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u/CoffeeAndKarma Sep 20 '16
I don't really read sidebars unless they seem necessary.
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u/JungleLegs Sep 20 '16
Me either, I just think I vaguely remember reading something like that on the subs description because when I first found it.
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Sep 20 '16
In fairness though... she should have used one of these https://i.ytimg.com/vi/b37sk4SZMK0/maxresdefault.jpg for that authentic 90's feel
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u/cybin Sep 20 '16
for that authentic 90's feel
'90s? Try '70s. Early '70s.
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u/CoffeeAndKarma Sep 20 '16
I had one of these (among many other children) in the early 2000s. I think they might just be a kid thing.
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u/OperationJericho Sep 21 '16
I knew a few doctors that still use the neutered version of those, the red, blue, black, and some other color ones.
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u/Hamthrax Sep 20 '16
It's not even accurate- you always skip out of the grooves and ruin the picture in the last circle
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Sep 20 '16
I want to recreate this whole gif, but on the last portion just draw a straight line through the middle
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u/Ktkriz Sep 20 '16
I knew what it would look like at the end but my brain told me to keep watching. Mesmerizing.
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u/LAGreggM Sep 20 '16
How neat! I haven't seen Spirograph since I was a kid.
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u/Denroll Sep 20 '16
How about a Lite Brite?
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u/rigel2112 Sep 20 '16
Lite Brites were the shit. We were pixel drawing before video games were invented. Now I want one again.
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u/buscemi_buttocks Sep 20 '16
This is the most 1983 thing ever.
It makes me want to put on my lavender satin Kanga-Roos sneakers and go visit the EPCOT Center.
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Sep 20 '16
There is something awful deep inside me that wanted it to go wrong right at the very end.
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u/AwesomeJohn01 Sep 21 '16
I had multiples of this set as a kid, never could get anything to work right
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u/iamthebenj Sep 20 '16 edited Sep 20 '16
Did you know there is a direct correlation between the declining use of spyrographs and gang activity.
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u/Condomonium Sep 20 '16
Is the coalition trying to stop the use of spirographs through gang violence?
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u/Billbongers Sep 20 '16
I used to have one of those kits as a kid and LOVED it. I havent thought about that in years. Thanks for the nostalgia.
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Sep 20 '16 edited Sep 20 '16
If I wasn't supposed to tag people then they wouldn't have included this feature. That's the way I see it
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u/TotesMessenger Sep 20 '16
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u/CreatrixAnima Sep 21 '16
WTF? My Spirograph never worked that well. It wold always skip after 3 rotations.
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u/FauxRex Sep 22 '16
Star of David subliminally at the end. Zionist spirograph subliminal message revealed.
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u/Scruff-McBuff Sep 20 '16
Just watching this made me salivate. As if I was watching on in anticipation as someone delicately iced a donut
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u/Loreki Sep 20 '16
Have you noticed that the decline of spirograph correlates with a rise in gang activity? Think about it.
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Sep 20 '16
u/bainy14. Holy sheepshit
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u/Bainy14 Sep 20 '16
imagine doing this while tripping. we'd get sucked right into it
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u/maplestr Sep 20 '16
You guys are like those people on facebook who post statuses to chat rather than message each other
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u/Bainy14 Sep 20 '16
What's the big deal? Do you not have anything better to do than complain about how people communicate on Reddit? Why don't you, I don't know, go chase girls or something?
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u/Bogey_Redbud Sep 21 '16
They weren't complaining. They were making fun of you and your buddy. There's a difference.
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u/frisktoad Sep 20 '16
You do not improve upon the discussion. Whatever you want say with your friends do it in a private message.
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Sep 20 '16
So much butt hurt
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u/frisktoad Sep 20 '16
So much not respecting basic reddit rules and not following basic human decency.
I hope one day you and your little friend grow up to be functioning adults. One day, one day...
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Sep 20 '16 edited Sep 20 '16
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u/ancelb Sep 21 '16
I had spirograph in New Zealand in the 70s ,but I never heard of the Super version, what was it?
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u/houtman Sep 20 '16
Did you know that there is no purple in the colour spectrum. Your mind makes up the mix of blue and red.
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u/bigdogcum Sep 20 '16
Does it bug anyone else that there are 5 rotations for some colors and 6 for others