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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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
