Animated Gif’s have a bad reputation of being resource hogs that typically do nothing more than suck up bandwidth and create distractions on the web. However, over at “World of Technology” they’ve collected a few great examples of how a simple animated GIF can explain a complicated technical mechanism better than any volume of text.
I’ve embedded one here, but hit their website for more including radial engines, a sewing machine, and a maltese cross mechanism.
World Of Technology: Complicated Mechanisms Explained in simple animations.
