Version 10 of tkEngine

Is an animated display of an internal combustion engine. There are 3 different types of engines that are selectable by holding down the mouse button. The 3 different types are Flat4, Inline4 and V6. The default is the Inline4.

This program uses 3 animated gif images from a article on HowStuffWorks.com to and measures the current frame rate that can be displayed.

Version 1.1 is avaiable here [L1 ].

 # TkEngine Program V1.1
 # by Satoshi Imai
 # 1.1, 07-Jul-2002 modified by Fuhito Suguri
 # http://www.interq.or.jp/japan/s-imai/tcltk/tkengine.html 
 # Based on a article by Marshall Brain @ HowStuffWorks.com
 # http://www.howstuffworks.com/engine2.htm

The Homepage for tkEngine[L2 ] is in japanese but a translated version is available through bablefish here [L3 ].

MPJ A reformated version with the frame/sec in the title bar and scale to fit the PocketPC is available here [L4 ]. Note you still need the 3 images from the above version: flat4.gif, inline4.gif, v6.gif.

Here are the shots of it running on my Dell Axim (arm 400Mhz)

And here a picture of this code running on my desktop (1GHz ~ notice the frame rate differance in frame rates).