Amazing Here?s a fun thing for architecture and design nerds: somewhere on the internet, someone is sharing super mesmerizing GIFs of traditional Japanese joinery. Passed on for hundreds of years, Japanese joinery features intricate interlocking wooden joints that hold up without the nails and screws we depend on today.

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? The Joinery (@TheJoinery_jp) May 25, 2016

As Spoon & Tomago reports, the project comes from a Japanese automobile marketer who became fascinated with these traditional joinery techniques and began collecting all sorts of wood joinery books. When he found those books to be lacking in comprehensiveness and clarity?2D diagrams certainly fell short in explaining the complicated joints?he proceeded to make his own 3D animated illustrations using Fusion360, a mechanical design software. Take a look at a few he's made so far, in a quest to create the "complete 3D guide to joinery."
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? The Joinery (@TheJoinery_jp) October 5, 2016

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? The Joinery (@TheJoinery_jp) July 6, 2016

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? The Joinery (@TheJoinery_jp) June 29, 2016

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? The Joinery (@TheJoinery_jp) June 27, 2016

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