Two robotic hands reach out of a flat panel, cross eachother, controlling two knobs which determine their movement, one in the X direction for one hand and the Y direction for the other, and the other one for the opposites.

The title's great, but I couldn't do much with this in 5 minutes. Anybody got a better spin?
-- RayfordSteele, Mar 05 2003

The inspiration http://www.halfbake...ert_20Etch-a-Sketch
[RayfordSteele, Oct 05 2004]

First, learn all this math. http://www.math.dar...le/java/SpiroGraph/
[snarfyguy, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]

Then, look at this toy. http://www.yesterda...ows/toys/ty1379.php
Now, get to work! [snarfyguy, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]

Escher-Sketch sketch http://www.geocitie...e/eschersketch.html
one of many possibilities [FarmerJohn, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]

Escher Web Sketch http://www-sphys.unil.ch/escher/
Java applet for drawing Escheresque tesselations. [AntiQuark, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]

Escher's Ketch http://www.halfbake.../Escher_27s_20Ketch
I fell for the bait, too. [beauxeault, Oct 05 2004]

5min does not an idea make, apparently. Ahwell.. Title is prime, though. :)
-- JackandJohn, Mar 05 2003


I like it - although the hands coming out of the screen should be drawing another Etch-a-sketch with two hands coming out of the screen... etc.
-- lostdog, Mar 06 2003


This sounds like a tool to help you design birds-intertwined-with-fish tessellations. Instead of just one scraper, it has about 36 spaced in a grid and moving in unison, so anything you draw gets repeated in the right sort of pattern, thereby automatically intertwining the shape with itself.
-- AO, Mar 06 2003


AO: sounds like a super Spirograph. Remember those things? I'll try to find a link.
-- snarfyguy, Mar 06 2003


amazed this has not been done before. +1

anyone brave enough to attempt a drawing?
-- po, Mar 07 2003


I’m imagining Escher-Erase. A computer game with two crossing hands holding erasers. The object is to erase the other hand before it can erase yours, with a partially erased hand becoming progressively non-functional.
-- pluterday, Mar 07 2003


I can try to draw one of these variations at a meeting or tomorrow.
-- FarmerJohn, Mar 07 2003


//...at a meeting...//

You people with jobs are so lucky...so much free time!
-- pluterday, Mar 07 2003


Still pondering ways to better capitalize on the potential here. If anyone else comes up with something better, (nudges a dozing RT), feel free to steal the title; it was borrowed, anyways.
-- RayfordSteele, Mar 07 2003


Very nice [FJ]!
-- bristolz, Mar 07 2003


Fun link [AQ].
-- FarmerJohn, Mar 08 2003


[Farmer] its not how I pictured it at all - but thats a brilliant drawing. add it to the art calendar if I may.
-- po, Mar 08 2003


po-sitively OK by me
-- FarmerJohn, Mar 10 2003



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