[time-nuts] Example of clocks interlocking with each other

Bob Camp lists at rtty.us
Sat Sep 14 13:46:52 UTC 2013


Hi

Google "Orbital Resonance". The same process works for *very* large systems, and you can lock at interesting ratios like 2:3 or 1:2:4  in addition to 1:1.

Bob

On Sep 14, 2013, at 9:34 AM, Tim Shoppa <tshoppa at gmail.com> wrote:

> A frame-by-frame analysis of the metronome video could show the frequency
> and phase of each of the 32 metronomes as a function of time.
> 
> Is there a non-youtube version of the video using a well-characterized
> video format? I'm not sure I would trust the youtube video codecs to keep
> time correctly, music videos there have horrible lip-sync problems (putting
> on my "AV Club" hat).
> 
> Tim.
> 
> 
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Magnus Danielson <
> magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org> wrote:
> 
>> Fellow time-nuts,
>> 
>> This little nice example of clocks interlocking just passed by my
>> web-browser:
>> 
>> o9.com/5947112/watch-32-discordant-metronomes-achieve-synchrony-in-a-matter-of-minutes?action_type_map={
>> "10153226568265094":"og.likes"}&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map={"10153226568265094":159320750875948}&action_ref_map=&fb_action_ids=10153226568265094
>> 
>> It shows 32 metronoms that interlocks.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Magnus
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