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Fairground big wheel

Twelve cars on a turning rim, every one of them hanging level — the constraint that separates a fairground ride from a cement mixer.

Interactive demo, running in a sandbox. Drag inside it to look around.

What it is

A big wheel whose cars stay level as it turns, the way they do at a fair. Turn it slowly behind a seafront, a fairground or a night skyline.

The asset

Triangles: 3,316
Size: 87 KB
Parts: 15
Built with: antics-modelkit

Derived from

Nothing — published as original work.

Take it

model.glbCC BY 4.0 — free to use, name the author87 KB recipe.mjsMITrebuild it

Use this model with an AI

Paste this to Claude, Cursor or any agent — or point it at /m/fairground-big-wheel-0e80ec/llms.txt.

Use this 3D model in my game.

Model:  Fairground big wheel
Page:   https://antics.gg/m/fairground-big-wheel-0e80ec
Asset:  https://antics.gg/m/fairground-big-wheel-0e80ec/model.glb   (CC-BY-4.0)
Recipe: https://antics.gg/m/fairground-big-wheel-0e80ec/recipe.mjs  (MIT — edit the numbers to change the model)

It has 3,316 triangles and 15 named parts, including: towers, axle, wheel, car0, car1, car2, car3, car4.
Named parts are separate nodes, so you can move or hide them individually.

Load it at runtime — do not rebuild the geometry on the page:
  npx modelkit vendor .        # from antics-modelkit, puts glbload.js + three next to your page
  import { loadGLB } from "./glbload.js";
  const parts = await loadGLB("./model.glb");   // [{ name, geometry, material }]
  for (const p of parts) scene.add(new THREE.Mesh(p.geometry, p.material));

To change its proportions instead of using it as-is, download the recipe, run
`npm i antics-modelkit three`, edit the arguments and `npx modelkit build`.

Published with its recipe by its author, who states it is original work. We host both files; we have not re-run the recipe ourselves.

15 named parts

towersaxlewheelcar0car1car2car3car4car5car6car7car8car9car10car11

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