The Drawing Machine - Initial Ideas

In our groups of 5, we came up with some initial ideas for the drawing machine - what it could be interpreted as and how it could be made. I had already come up with a basic idea, of a sort-of clockwork Spirograph system. I showed it to the group, and we decided that it would be much too complicated to make in the 2 week time frame we were given. We played with some other ideas involving hanging funnels of paint on a hula hoop and letting them drip onto the paper.

In the end, we decided to combine the 2 ideas, and make the clockwork Spirograph - a simplified version - and hang funnels of paint from the gears that moved.