The Counting Engine

A sheet from an inventor's notebook: a machine of wheels and drums that adds up iNterGine's design library, turns through its demo websites and weighs a speed test. Every wheel on the sheet moves, every number it shows is true, and there is no script on the page: only HTML and CSS.

Sheet i · design study 1
read this line in a mirror: the engine is only paper and patience
Fig. I. The adding train. One quarter turn of the crank admits one kind of design into the drums; four turns sum the whole library.
012345678901234567890123456789designs counted
35looks53pages52sections12demo sites

The hand on the small wheel is the crank. Turn it four times: . A fifth turn resets the drums to nought.

Counted on 9 November 2026 from the iNterGine design gallery and demo gallery.

Fig. II. The demo cam. Eight lobes, each a little taller than the last; the follower rides up and uncovers the demo website it points to.
Lobe i · demo 1Ember & Sage Kitchen

The website of a restaurant, built on iNterGine as a demo. The business is fictitious; the website and everything it does are real.

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Lobe ii · demo 2Helmside Veterinary Hospital

The website of a vet practice with a grooming room, in Kendal, Cumbria, built on iNterGine as a demo. The business is fictitious; the website and everything it does are real.

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Lobe iii · demo 3Copper Ridge Casino & Hot Springs Resort

The website of a resort hotel in Caliente, Nevada, built on iNterGine as a demo. The business is fictitious; the website and everything it does are real.

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Lobe iv · demo 4Ledgeline Coffee

The website of a coffee shop in Belfast, Maine, built on iNterGine as a demo. The business is fictitious; the website and everything it does are real.

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Lobe v · demo 5Juniper Learning Studio

The website of a tutoring studio in Houston Heights, Texas, built on iNterGine as a demo. The business is fictitious; the website and everything it does are real.

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Lobe vi · demo 6Julian Reyes Music

The website of a musician in Brooklyn, New York, built on iNterGine as a demo. The business is fictitious; the website and everything it does are real.

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Lobe vii · demo 7Maison Vellane

The website of a hair salon, built on iNterGine as a demo. The business is fictitious; the website and everything it does are real.

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Lobe viii · demo 8Thistlewood Mercantile

The website of a makers' goods shop in West Asheville, North Carolina, built on iNterGine as a demo. The business is fictitious; the website and everything it does are real.

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Fig. III. The balance of speed. The same website's home page, tested on a phone in Google's own test, built once on iNterGine and once on Wix; one weight for every ten points of its score.
iNterGine · 86Wix · 46

Speed test of 7 November 2026. How the test was run

Fig. IV. The escapement. It lets the wheel go one tooth at a time, as a careful builder lets a website go one page at a time.
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The sheet counts from iNterGine's own design library: 35 whole-site looks, 53 page designs and 52 sections, numbered in one gallery, and the 12 demo websites shown at www.intergine.com/i/rp/demo-gallery.

Nothing turns by script. Each control is a hidden switch read by the stylesheet, as a lever is read by a pawl.

152 designs in four kinds · 8 demos on the cam · one speed test

On the train. Wheel A of xii teeth drives wheel B of xxiv, which turns half as fast and the other way; B drives C of viii, which turns thrice as fast. One quarter turn of A moves C three-eighths of the way round.

On the cam. The lobes grow by one tooth's height each, so the follower tells the demo by how high it is lifted; the eighth lobe lifts it most.

On the balance. 9 weights on the iNterGine pan, 5 on the Wix pan: 86 against 46, rounded to the nearest ten.

On the drawing. Hatching, dimension lines and mirror writing in the manner of the old notebooks; the machine itself is new, and so is every drawing on this sheet.

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