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http://507movements.com/
Great reference.

Copyright information:

The owners of 507movements.com hold the copyright to the layout and animated illustrations on this site. The animations may not be reproduced without permission. This includes conversions of the animations to other formats. Permission will not be given to reproduce the animations on other websites.

They can only claim copyright for what they did themselves on the website. The images as well as the whole concept are from Henry T Brown's 1868 book. And they don't own any copyright on the movements!

Just another example for a downright stupid copyright claim.

slowtiger wrote:They can only claim copyright for what they did themselves on the website. The images as well as the whole concept are from Henry T Brown's 1868 book. And they don't own any copyright on the movements!

Just another example for a downright stupid copyright claim.

Phew! Thank goodness! I already created a few of those gizmos using physics and motors in ASP without ever seeing that site, good reference though. Now I have some inspiration for more "Rube Goldberg" devices.

[edit] They are using browser CANVAS animation. THAT'S why they have the heavy handed copyright. They don't want people stealing the web code driving the animation (canvas animation is a pain in the ARSE).

Oh man... <sigh>. I LOVE stuff like this. Specifically I love recreating machines like this in ASP using physics. Not even practical, just for "fun" like when I was kid with legos and Erector sets. I could spend all day recreating some of these gizmos... if I didn't have real work to do.