Clockwork Waveplate - A half-wave plate model using gears by Gav

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Here's a clockwork model of a Half waveplate, and how it changes the polarization of light that's input to it.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waveplate
The labels are the extreme points of the Poincare sphere, and are Horizontal, Vertical, Diagonal (+45deg), Antidiagonal (-45deg), Right-handed circular, and Left-handed circular.
More info here:https://tinkeringsdotorg.wordpress.com/2018/08/31/clockwork-waveplates-polarization-calculations-with-gears/