Kenneth W. Behrendt's Latest Opus

[Georg Künstler]

Hi ME,
I am struggling with myself, if I should pass more Information to you,
or first patent it.

What I see from your description is that you always look at it as a round System. In your example with the ball, the ball has one Connection Point on the deepest Point.

In the Hamster Cage with the dowels this ball has 2 Connection points
If you remove some air from the Ball then you have n-Connection Points.
To Keep the ball rolling you must invest energy, that I can agree.
You have to turn the Hamster Cage from outside.

What I am discribing is a tilt function !! A fall over function !!
A Body will fall over also if you move the ground.
The moving ground is represented by the Hamster Cage.
Put a Quadrat in the hamster Cage and turn it, it will tumble.
Put a octagon in the Hamster Cage and turn it, it will tumble.

A octagon itself is a rigrid Connection that will not work.
Here you have to do something in Addition.
Kens construction has movable feets,
they are moved, compressed by the weight of the complete construction.
A deforming inwards, by doing this, the Center of mass is shifted sidewards.

In German we have a sentence

siegen durch nachgeben

hopefully translated right with

win by giving in

[ME]

I am struggling with myself, if I should pass more Information to you,
or first patent it.

I don't know... you were in the process of explaining some missing factors in Ken's wheel design.
The only thing this comment says to me is that this new-found principle of yours does not explain things in the en-passant way as you think it would.

Of course you could spend more time and effort, but then again "Your wheel is your wheel and not Ken's wheel. ".
I guess it's better to start a new topic if you want to elaborate on your progress as it drifts a bit out of topic.
I'll try to find some time to create a simulation of an octagon tumbling inside a doweled wheel (-and for my own sake hope it actually performs how I think it will-)
When you have a new topic I'll promise to decorate it with that result.

siegen durch nachgeben

Sounds good.
When you tie down, screw tight, lock and fix everything then eventually nothing will move and no one gets anywhere... some slack and flexing is a necessity.
Hold on tight to your dreams though - ELO. https://youtu.be/H2Bci4IYAFY