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escapement

A free animation — play it in your browser, no install. Machines, drawn as dots. Canvas 2D, no dependencies.

by @TonkaTuff · TonkaTuff/escapement on GitHubLANG JavaScriptHOSTED ON TONKATUFF.GITHUB.IOUPDATED 13 Sep 2026

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Machines, drawn as dots. Gears meshing at the ratio of their teeth, an anchor escapement letting the wheel slip a tooth every half swing, pendulums in a wave and in a cradle, a harmonograph drawing, a radar going round. Loaders that look like something. Canvas 2D, no dependencies, one script.

Sixth of the TonkaTuff libraries, after Ephemeris (the sky), Coriolis (the weather), Swarm (living things), Ignis (fire) and Swell (water). The dots are sized the same way, so all six sit together on a page.

Every canvas.gear on the page mounts itself.

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