Tavmjong Bah wrote:
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 07:22 -0600, Aaron Spike wrote:
And lastly if the tooth profiles are important to you, please check out lib2geom. lib2geom is a 2d geometry toolkit being developed for use in inkscape. I've written a little toy program for generating gears with proper involute tooth profiles. These gears still lack the proper undercutting or addendum modifications for gears with small numbers of teeth.
Playing with gears looked like too much fun to ignore. I've used Aaron's python routine to make some gears that I have animated for a clock. See:
Wow! This is absolutely what I am looking for (although not animated). Actually I got inspired to make gears when taking a look at gallery section http://www.xara.com/gallery/ of the web site of Xara Xtreme http://www.xaraxtreme.com/, which is as to my understanding being developed with the Inkscape team. This detailed clock is really amazing, and I wonder if this isn't possible using Inkscape.
Thanks,
Claus