Non-circular gears

Gears are not always round. Non-circular gears were sketched by Leonardo da Vinci back in the 15th century. Such gears are designed to convert rotational speed in a nonconstant manner. They also look cool.

This project is a non-circular gears system generator: the central gear in orange has a certain shape, and all the other gears in red are built to accomodate it. All of them have a fixed rotation axis.

You can manually add more gears with the left mouse button, and delete existing gears with the right mouse button.


Engine

Ellipse
Ellipse
Heart
Triangle
Square
Pentagon
Random
Circle

Display