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Orrery

I love orreries.

An orrery is a mechanical device that illustrates the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons in the solar system in heliocentric model. They are typically driven by a large clockwork mechanism with a globe representing the Sun at the center, and with a planet at the end of each of the arms.

So when I hopped to Rendervisions Islands to see what Pandora's cooked up recently...

orrery at rendervisions

How did I miss this before?

Cool.

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It's funny because I built that orrery lamp way back at the beginning of March but most people don't notice it. Occassionally, I see someone look up and then gasp in surprise that they could have missed that huge spinning thing up there.

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