"Animated Engines"

Animated Engines



"I have loved mechanical things since I was a kid.  Engines in particular have always intrigued me.  All my life I’ve pored over books, studying cutaway diagrams, hungry to understand how things worked.  These pages are an attempt to share that magic.



Some of the animations are rather large, so you may need to allow a few extra seconds while each page loads.  These pages use animated GIF files, so they require a fairly recent browser -- any but the oldest browsers will do.  If the main illustration at the top of each page isn’t moving, you’ll need to update your browser for the full effect.



I hope you enjoy  visiting my engine pages as much as I have enjoyed creating them"






I was trying to describe how a four stroke engine worked to my son the other day... A picture really can be worth a thousand words (and a number of badly drawn images on napkins ;)



There are a number of other engine animations, along with a How To, if you’re interested in doing something like this yourself.



(via MAKE: - Animated Engines)