Epicyclic Gearing (with svgsaver)

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Epicyclic Gearing (with svgsaver)

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Last edited Oct 19, 2015

Created on Sep 24, 2015

The visualization depicts a working model of an epicyclic gear system, with sun, planet, and annulus gears rendered as rotating SVG paths. It uses D3.js to animate the gears and update the frame of reference based on user selection via radio buttons. Clicking the graphic triggers the SvgSaver library to serialize the current SVG state into a downloadable file, demonstrating an interactive animation with export functionality.

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From Wikipedia:

Epicyclic gearing or planetary gearing is a gear system consisting of one or more outer gears, or planet gears, revolving about a central, or sun gear. … Epicyclic gearing systems also incorporate the use of an outer ring gear or annulus, which meshes with the planet gears.

Use the menu in the top-left to change the frame of reference, fixing the specified gear in-place.

forked from <a href='http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/'>mbostock</a>'s block: <a href='http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/1353700'>Epicyclic Gearing</a>

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