The Antikythera Mechanism. A marvel of ancient ingenuity or just an ancient joke to annoy archaeologists?
The Antikythera Mechanism was made around 200-100BCE. Evidence shows that they made it first try indicating they'd had practise; meaning this wasn't the only such machine in the world.
Discovered 2,000 years after being lost in a Roman shipwreck it has been a headache for science, and me, ever since.
My model is based on the ones available from
www.mogi-vice.com
WIP posted since someone took an interest when I mentioned it in the Greek Temple tutorial.
Image description stolen from my Facebook page. :)
21,887 vertices (currently)
Vertex count is not optimised.
