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The Ellipse Stick Trick
Here's a really quick way to layout a good-enough ellipse using just a batten: Ellipse from a Batten from Jim Tolpin on Vimeo.
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If a Tree Falls in the Woods…
...does it make a difference? Where it lands that is. If it does, you likely want to know how far it will fall in order to move…
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Biblical Furniture Plan
“They shall construct an ark of acacia wood two and a half cubits long, and one and a half cubits wide, and one and a half cubits…
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More Thales
Say you have a bunch of logs that you want to turn into beams...big beams...beams so big that you basically want to turn the round log into the…
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Thales Theorem Proof
Thales of Miletus In one of the recent posts we showed you how to get a right angle out of a circle, thanks to this guy. A…
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Euclid wearing work boots
Jim Tolpin and I both entered into this "Language of the Artisans" through different side doors. We each wandered about in amazement before we even realized the enormity…
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Affirmation
Making a Rudder for a Ship of War, by W. H. Pyne 1803 By the look on their faces, the folks at Braxton Brewery were not prepared to…
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That Snappy Sector Redux
A while back I noticed that a number of architect/builder’s sectors shown in manuscripts from the Renaissance era had the segmentation laid out along a diagonal line rather…
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What makes a right angle right?
In the last post, we saw how the triplet works its magic to allow three segmented line lengths to come together to form a right angle. When the…