Another variation on my Vienna Ferris Wheel animation.
While checking around the web for info on the Riesenrad,  I came across a video on the official website, making the point that during construction, Ferris wheels don’t require support scaffolding.  Tension and compression forces are always in balance.
I’ve created a simple animation of this, by breaking up the [...]

3D Model of the Turning Torso, a 190m Skyscraper in Malmö, Sweden. Designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava the entire structure twists as it rises. The top of the building turned through 90 degrees clockwise with respect to the ground floor. 
 
The bottom two blocks used as office space, the top seven are apartments,  making this the [...]

A variation on my original Vienna Ferris Wheel animation. Sending the Gondolas in circles around a circular path, like a Spirograph.
Still working on the support structure for this…  might take me some time.
See the animation in Google Earth 170kB

Between October 31 and November 9  2000, the Cassini space probe took a series of global images of Jupiter.   NASA  processed and assembled these into a global Time-lapse movie.
This file creates an interactive 3d version of this movie by wrapping it around Google Earth as a series of time stamped  image overlays, and using GE’s [...]

This is a Google Earth Time Animation of the 110 year old Ferris wheel in Prater Park, Vienna - the Riesenrad.
The only survivor out of five similar wheels designed by Walter Bassett,  located in Chicago, Paris, London, Blackpool and Vienna.  During the Second World War the wheel was badly damaged, and the original 30 gondolas replaced with [...]