wow, everyone did such thorough research!
I’ll try and contribute something (here) to that, although, can’t really imagine what _could_ be added at this point…
: )
My “research” (a part of an hour of looking at what ‘water wheel’ returns across a few image stocks) was more focused on how things look (with how they work being secondary, task at hand considered; so far the single eureka moment on the engineering side being the single support) and how the, what I’ve thought of as and named “irregularities” may actually have been intentional (@lexicolopolis I am too now convinced, after parsing through your shared findings, that the angles “offset” is indeed because of the bucket type… if or how would I incorporate that into the my model- not sure as of yet; @lucky I too believe the flow of the water to be left -> right; @ladymito I concur that keeping it simple, especially in the scope of creating a part in a greater whole, may as well be the north star, overriding the urge to represent mechanisms and such accurately. I am just a little surprised already (not having actually made a single vertex yet : ) how deep the water wheel rabbit hole can get opposed to the elegant and deceptively effortless looking representation as painted)
