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Mechanical Watch (Bartosz Ciechanowski)

  • Alexandre Storelli

Alexandre Storelli

05 May 2022 • 1 min read
Mechanical Watch (Bartosz Ciechanowski)

Beautiful page that explains step by step how a mechanical watch works. Interactive animations help understand and are a pleasure to the eye!

A fellow HN user noticed that the code running the WebGL animations is human readable and is available at https://ciechanow.ski/js/watch.js.

Mechanical Watch – Bartosz Ciechanowski
Interactive article explaining how a mechanical watch works.
Bartosz Ciechanowski

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