11 August 2024
It seems like a skeletal crusing send and in some way it’s. Apart from that it walks. Like a large worm.
Strandbeests are created via Dutch physicist became artist, Theo Jansen, who has labored on them since 1990. He named them strandbeest which accurately method “seashore animal” in Dutch. They’re local to the Netherlands.
Strandbeests are powered handiest via wind. Some more recent “species” can use the wind to retailer compressed air in onboard PET bottles — a wind abdomen for the animal — which is later used for energy.
Yearly Jansen experiments in summer season and designs new ones in iciness in a continuously evolving procedure. Even though the beests have existed for greater than 30 years they become identified handiest after he posted movies on YouTube a few decade in the past. Since then the beests were on excursion. They got here to the U.S. in 2014-2016.
And but they continue to be most commonly unknown, particularly to folks like me who are living some distance from the seashore. I realized about them final week on this 11-minute video that tells their tale.
Talk over with Theo Jansen’s Strandbeest web site for more info. His Steadily Requested Questions are particularly helpful.
p.s. Should you’re curious, two animations display how the legs transfer.
Motion of a unmarried leg. Understand that one bar is fastened and the smallest bar rotates.
Motion of 6 legs:
The golf green circle presentations the rotating axle that powers the legs.
