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These beautifully engineered roller-skates (or quad-skates
as
they now seem to be known) have a few small
modifications.
On the outside of each boot, a circular hole about two
inches
in diameter has been cut out of the fabric to reveal the
wearer’s anklebone (not the bone itself, obviously),
and
above and below the ankle are
metal cuffs running all the way around the boot. Mounted
to
the two cuffs just over the hole is is a small assembly
comprising a miniature felt-tip pen and a tiny brass
spirograph set with interchangeable wheels. The
spirograph
itself is powered by a tiny chain drive connected to the rear
axle of the skates, geared extremely low. As the skater
moves, their ankle is gradually adorned with beautiful
hypotrochoids and epitrochoids.
On the underside of the skates are clips holding alternative
spirograph wheels and different colour felt tips so you can
add to the design mid-journey. The deluxe version has an
led
downlighter on the mechanism so that you can amaze and
enthral night-time passers-by with your ankle art.
Spirograph
https://www.youtube...watch?v=B6tXe7Qkb_w
For the uninitiated [wagster, Apr 05 2020]
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Distinctly weird, and notably Steampunk, but a croissant for using the euphonious // hypotrochoids and epitrochoids //. |
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A wonderful idea from the most excellent wagster.
Great to see you back again. Maybe I'll hang
around a little longer now. [+] |
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Beautiful indeed. (I thought this was one of yours xen. I
forgot that wags was here again.) Yay. |
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Conceptually and artistically stunning but this will need a very very special felt-tip holder. |
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No, no, a sharpened - probably hollow - stylus is needed for subcutaneous injection of the pigment. |
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I did consider making this a tattoo idea, but I thought that
would be too silly. I obviously need to get back on my
game. |
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There should be some sort of inertial input mass
lever--for tight turns and spins the patterns become
more complex. |
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Sounds like an application for tiny brass-and-steel gyroscopes. |
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And a mechanism to adapt to a, human distributed shape, working muscular appendage. There's going to be some overwriting. |
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And pain, of course. Pain is important ; it reminds you you're alive ... |
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// it reminds you you're alive ..// |
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Do you occasionally forget? That would explain a
few things. |
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We used the second person, "you". We do not include ourselves in that, as there is no requirement. |
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