Thursday, April 18, 2013

Automatons and clockworks

With this I am looking into the idea of having a object that was meant to represent life in a lifeless form i.e. a doll, but then I am giving life to it through the form of clockwork.

I began to look at the mechanics of clockwork and various types that were available.




After I looked at images of clockwork and such I started to look into gears and such that are used within real life mechanisms.




Once I had gone through this I started to look into Automaton

The word "automaton" is the latinization of the Greek αὐτόματονautomaton, (neuter) "acting of one’s own will". It is more often used to describe non-electronic moving machines, especially those that have been made to resemble human or animal actions, such as the jacks on old public strikingclocks, or the cuckoo and any other animated figures on a cuckoo clock.


Here is a video on Clockwork Automaton




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