What do you know of something like this?

This should be in nostupidquestions.

Who would I ask and what would I say? I don’t know. So no. I’ve spoken to some about them, but get lost in irrational emotion. It’s very strange. So I just leave them to languish in the backrooms of my conscious.

It was and got modded

There’s no trouble here

Schizophrenia has pre-halucination phase that isn't that severe. As I love all humans I am concerned about your wellbeing. As they say prevention is better than cure. I would love for you to seek a doctor and get a diagnosis that there is nothing wrong with you, than for you to end up couple of years from now in mental facility.

Thanks for your concern, my health in all aspects has been cleared. Only aging joints lol

Look like a desk toy:


(Amazon link with video of it in motion)

Alternatively, the thing from _Event Horizon_:

Look up "gimbal lock".

What you have animated in a gimbal. Gyroscopes are often mounted on gimbals to demonstrate how they resist changes to their axis of rotation. This is why many people associate gimbals with gyroscopes. I guess many people don't know the term gimbal, or have forgotten it.

Anyway, as I said in a top-level comment, you should look up "gimbal lock" which is what happens when all the rings of the gimbal end up in the same plane.

The same thing can happen with 4, 7, or 100 rings. If they are allowed to "flatten out" to a single plane, you get gimbal lock, no matter how many rings there are. However, more rings don't actually give more degrees of freedom. 4 rings are enough to provide all degrees of freedom plus guarantee that you never get gimbal lock, but only if you ensure that the innermost and outermost rings are perpendicular to each other at all times.

As for the "meaning" behind it, sense of scale, or whatever you might be feeling, I have nothing to say. Gimbals can be built in all sizes.

Gimbals might be free-spinning or driven by motors, it depends on what they're used for, what their purpose is. Either way though, they usually don't move all that much, it's just shown in animation for demonstration purposes. (And in sci-fi because it's cool.)

For example, there are camera gimbals which are designed to keep a mounted camera steady while the gimbal is held by a shaky human. In that case the gimbal only rotates as a counter-reaction to the rotation of the handheld part. If you have a steady hand, the gimbal would hardly move at all.

I should note that camera gimbals don't look like those fancy rings, but mechanically they do the same thing.

I can't tell you any more than that (frankly that's all I know), but since you seen interested you should take your time to read up on it and watch YouTube videos about it.

appreciate it thanks. I'm familiar with camera gimbals and such as a steadying tool, but didn't connect that topic with whatever this is.

Hi. I'll be your "that guy" today. It's "axes" pronounced "ax-eez", not "axii".

::: spoiler explanation
"Axis" is from Greek, and the general rule is that singular "-is" becomes "-ēs" in the plural, which happens to apply here. We don't usually write the overline when it's adopted into English, so "axes", but with a Greek-derived pronunciation.

The rule you're thinking of is that Latin "-ius" usually becomes "-ii", but Latin or not, there's no "u", so we should avoid using that rule here.
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I was rewriting the word so many times I couldn't trust the word in any form anymore

This is exactly like the spinning mechanism at the end of 13 Ghosts. I've always thought it was pretty. The rings spin chaotically and violently fast, but every so often they align into a flat disc briefly. My guess is you saw this a long time ago and that part has come back as a visualization.

Let's just say it's a mechanical device. Otherwise it's too much of a spoiler. 😅