spring and flying machines

[eub]

(If these jar your sense of Seattle phenology, don't worry, they're a couple of weeks old.)

Asian pear leaves	lilac greenery bursts out so big-headed it looks ungainly	tulips in a sea of squill	trillium

tardigrade

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nineweaving posts:

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There follow six pages of analysis and diagrams, relating to the mathematics of wing-flap and the sinusoid curve, and culminating in the triumphant sketch (Fig. 6, above):

“Now, just as when man wanted to make a machine to run like a horse, he duplicated the horse’s legs circularly so as to form wheels which could run at much greater speed, so I propose to indefinitely multiply or duplicate the wings of a bird, arranging them into a wheel so that they may flap at any desired speed. In general, therefore, this machine consists of a series of aeroplannes, gliders, or wings, arranged to move circularly in a substantially vertical plane....By moving in a circular path, the racking due to reciprocating motion is obviated; and, as some gliders are constantly descending, the apparatus is never free to fall...

Comments

[3smallishmagi.livejournal.com]

I like how I like those in the same way I liked that other picture of yours I commented on.

silenceleigh and I were out together once and I had my camera out. She saw a photo and pointed it out. I saw she had a point but couldn't take the photo. She had to be the one taking it for it to work.

[eub.livejournal.com]

That's interesting. I can see a specific commonality between a subset of my pictures, having to do with composition, but I don't think any of these have that.

[mh75.livejournal.com]

Really nice, Eli.
Btw, do you know about
http://community.livejournal.com/naturesbeauty/profile

[eub.livejournal.com]

Thanks, and I didn't.