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Addendum to Post “Geometry Vs Algebra Smack down”
An attentive reader asked: “What if you wanted to lay out the centers of the slats instead of their edges”. A great question as it is actually often…
That Snappy Sector
Another primary use of the sector is to quickly find or create a whole number proportional relationship between two dimensions--say the width of a box to its height.…
Algebra vs. Geometry Smackdown
So how do you go about evenly spacing out the slats on a design such as a headboard (as the example shown here by (and I'm not…
Just the Tip of the Iceberg !
Jim Tolpin smiled at me and exclaimed, “Just the Tip of the Iceberg” to describe our excitement as we first began…
Step Stool Redux
The Humble Step Stool strikes again (or here's what woke me up at 4am this morning): The sequence of ratios embedded in my well-worn step stool project examples…
Going ‘Round the Bend
This sketch shows an old boatbuilding scheme for figuring out how tight (used to be called “quick”) a certain thickness of wood will bend. (The wood is usually…
