Bruce Sterling @brucesThe Clickspring guy points out that there are no "absolute measurements" in his work. For years now, he's been hand-building an ancient Greek Antikythera Mechanism just to eyeballing it
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Jeff Zugale - Z Factory@bruces I just watched this last night, I’ve been following this build from the beginning. Utterly fascinating in all respects.
WTPlant@bruces great project and so in depth that i seem to recall there was a big gap in the project videos because of his coauthorship of scientific research about the mechanism stemming, in part at least, his work building it.
Joel Baxter@bruces an epic video series; hard to believe how much work and time he's put into it. The cherry on top was when he coauthored a paper on a new interpretation of part of the artifact: https://bhi.co.uk/by-the-light-of-the-moon-a-lunar-calendar-on-the-antikythera-mechanism/
Aaron Sawdey, Ph.D.@bruces I mean inasmuch as the device is basically a geometric proof made out of brass, that makes sense. You only need relative measurements for that thing. It'll work the same way no matter the scale factor.
Allpoints@bruces I've been watching that build for quite some time. Respectfully, classifying that as "eyeballing it" doesn't give credit to the amount of skill and relative measurement happening there.
Shlee fooled around &