Follow one keypress through Enigma’s plugboard and rotors and you see why it was unbreakable; strip the hull off a trireme and three banks of oars stop being a paradox; ride the Titanic’s anchor to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in real time and the depth stops being a number. The fourth just runs Tokyo’s whole rail network at a minute per second.
A 3D teardown that follows one keypress through the whole rotor path
→ youtube.com
A 3D animation that finally makes three tiers of oars make sense
→ youtube.com
The drop to Challenger Deep, in real time, on the Titanic's anchor
→ theawesomer.com
1,900 trains moving across 147 lines, at sixty times speed
→ greggman.github.io