Mathematics,
set in motion.
Pendulum waves, Möbius strips, Chladni patterns and more, each animated live from its math.
A personal side project, made for fun.
Articulated form
Eight pivots on four circles.
Endless ascent
A staircase that loops back on itself.
Pendulum wave
Fifteen pendulums, fifteen speeds.
Interference
Two sets of overlapping circles.
Three-body problem
Three equal masses on one figure-eight path.
Möbius strip
A ribbon with only one side.
Gyroscope
A spinning rotor inside gimbal rings.
Rolling cube
A cube that rolls one layer at a time.
Rolling wave
Bars in a ring, turning one after another.
Tesseract
A four-dimensional cube, shown in 3D.
Impossible triangle
A triangle that only works from the front.
Spirograph
A circle rolling inside a circle.
Epicycles
Spinning arms that draw a curve.
Chladni patterns
Sand on a vibrating plate.
Kaleidoscope
Colored shapes in a ring of mirrors.
Rolling polygons
A polygon rolling along a line.
Iris mechanism
Nine blades that open and close a hole.
Trammel of Archimedes
Two straight tracks that draw an ellipse.
Phyllotaxis spiral
Seeds placed at the golden angle.
Articulated hexagon
Six pivots, a hexagon and two triangles.
Geneva drive
Turning smooth rotation into steps.
Miura fold
A sheet that folds in a single motion.
Branching rules
One rule, repeated, makes a tree.
Collective motion
A flock with no leader.
Gravity well
Orbits that shift a little every lap.
Prism
White light split into colors.
Peaucellier–Lipkin
A linkage that draws a straight line.
Math and physics,
animated.
Kinetic is a collection of small animations of ideas from math and physics: pendulums, linkages, orbits, optical illusions and more. Each one is drawn live in your browser.
Open a study to change its speed and main setting, or turn on guides to see how it works.
Kinetic is open source, created by mnove. Read the code, fork it, or contribute a study.
Browse the studies View the source on GitHub