{"id":761,"date":"2010-05-26T18:25:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T22:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=761"},"modified":"2010-05-26T18:25:43","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T22:25:43","slug":"a-clockwork-eye-from-the-secret-laboratory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/26\/a-clockwork-eye-from-the-secret-laboratory\/","title":{"rendered":"A Clockwork Eye from the Secret Laboratory"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Clockwork<\/a><\/p>\n

Click the image to see it animate!\n

I’ve been working on this mechanism – well, it’s a 3D model, so it’s not a real<\/em> mechanism – for the past few days. In ways that are known only to my Kickstarter backers<\/a>, this is a part of the next stage at my Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual<\/em><\/a> web site.<\/p>\n

It’s unusually steampunkish for me but that makes sense because this object is just the eye of a mechanical character who’s much older than anything else in Retropolis. A character who was built in the earliest days of the Mad Science we know and love. I added an eyebrow as a backplate for the band drive – and after much agony I figured out how to set the objects up in 3DS Max so that the whole thing animates when you turn its drive wheel.<\/p>\n

The iris mechanism here is based on a real, working design that was featured at Boing Boing<\/a> a few days back. The original forum thread (with many revisions!) is here<\/a>. My version is based on one of the earliest of them – I wanted to start with something simple before I got all baroque about it. Which I felt was likely.<\/p>\n

Anyway what this means is that I’m working maniacally on some new stuff for the Thrilling Tales<\/em> site. And now… to that I shall return.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been working on this mechanism – well, it’s a 3D model, so it’s not a real mechanism – for the past few days. In ways that are known only to my Kickstarter backers, this is a part of the next stage at my Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual web site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thrilling-tales","category-works-in-progress"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}