Rollway Oddworks

One striped marble travels through twenty mechanisms, moving levers, paddles, bridges and pendulums by contact. Watch automatically. Drag to turn the view, tap a mechanism to inspect it, or use View controls in Adjust. Pause and Restart are always available.

Assembling the machine

The machine could not start

Gravity takes the long way.

A little further.

Twenty mechanisms. One marble. A chain of small consequences, driven by gravity and contact.

Pace

Sound

View

Look closely

Drag to turn, scroll or pinch to zoom. Tap a part to look closer. All view controls are also above. With the machine focused: Space pauses, arrows turn, + and − zoom, Home returns to the whole machine.

The receiving bowl ends each circuit. The complete machine then resets. A missed catch is reported before restarting. Motion pauses when you leave this window.