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Pottery Wheel Spin: Flywheel Momentum & Clay Centering (2D)

2D kick-wheel physics: flywheel angular momentum I·omega keeps the wheel spinning between kicks, a damped-oscillator model centers a wobbling lump of clay, and a volume-conservation pull model grows wall height while thinning the wall as you throw a vessel.

Build & Play2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

This 2D companion strips the 3D throwing scene down to the mechanics driving it: a flywheel obeying I·omega angular-momentum bookkeeping (kick torque in, bearing friction out), an off-center lump of clay whose wobble follows a real damped-oscillator equation that the centering-force slider visibly speeds up or slows down, and a volume-conserving pull model where the vessel's wall height grows only as its thickness thins, exactly as real clay redistributes under a potter's hands.

⚙ Under the hood

2D kick-wheel lab with a real I·omega flywheel model, a damped-oscillator clay-centering wobble, and a volume-conserving wall-pull model where thickness thins as height grows.

pottery wheelangular momentumflywheeldamped oscillatorclay centeringvolume conservation

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install