Better Way To Make A Ramp
-
My portrait by a very cool guy!
(had with him some very funny threads on the ZBC forum in the past) 
I believe a compatriot to you (same island)
-
I have a few ruling pens. Cantankerous things. Now that we have Photoshop and Render engines. .. they have gone the way of the AirBrush, The Speedball nib and the and the french Curve. Funny. .. drafting stores still charge for them like they were still in demand.
But we digress. . .
-
its one of those curvy drawing thingys as shown in the above post. We call them French Curves. . .they come from the same place as French Toast & French Fries - -- America!
-
-
I know what is it , but want to know why this is named like that
Maybe something like "System D" ? (don't know if that exist on the new world?)
-
We digress too far ............
PS: Pilou are you the rider or the camel ? -
Sometime I am no sure
-
It's a 'French-curve' probably because you invented it... with the 'letter', 'kiss' and so on ?
-
Maybe, I must make some investigations, if i found something pertinent about that, i will put it here
In French these tools are named "Pistol" or "Parrot" (pistolet, perroquet)
-
@unknownuser said:
In French these tools are named "Pistol" or "Parrot" (pistolet, perroquet)
that makes sense. . .
ils sont fous ces gaulois!
-
[quote="Pilou"]@ Arjun : thx for Hindi lesson language
/[quote]My pleasure!!
btw why people use @ arjun?? on facebook i also saw this what's the meaning of @ arjun?? and why not Arjun?? -
It indicates "at" Arjun meaning they are addressing that part to you.
-
@gaieus said:
It indicates "at" Arjun meaning they are addressing that part to you.
so isn't straightaway writing Arjun a better option??
-
This is just a forum "habit" or "custom". Just like adding smiley's.
-
whoa whoa hohoo hooho
people have really become nostalgic about french curves here man!!! well i'm was not really good at french curves in my Architectural Drawing subject in my second year.specifically the solid geometry thingyyy.. we had to draw conical sections and still find french curves really cumbersome i have a 12 piece set...I'm like ...try this one... oh no it doesn't work.. ok..try this one...the curve is slight imperfect .....okay try this one...this one is also crappy!! 
.....why do we use french curves at all??? -
Pardon the bump on a digression that is over two weeks old, but I had to comment because I used to use those tools too. I have a set of ruling pens and compasses of different sizes and a small set of French curves.
And I used to have a K&E log-log, duplex-vector slide rule. It had 20 scales, a magnifying slider, and a leather case with a belt-clip.
@arjunmax09 said:
...why do we use french curves at all???
Because we cannot do it freehand. Or we cannot afford someone with the skill to do it freehand.And because we did not have computers or paper-tape-driven plotters, or any of the other things that have been tried because French curves are so hard to use.
If doing it the hard way is the only way and if it must be done, then you do it the hard way.
The Apollo missions went to the Moon based on calculations done with slide-rules; they did not have calculators or computers. But they got it done.
FWIW,
August -
@unknownuser said:
The Apollo missions went to the Moon based on calculations done with slide-rules; they did not have calculators or computers. But they got it done.
Or least the government faked it all on a sound stages --all with just slide rules, french curves and super-8 cameras. But they got it done!
-
@unknownuser said:
Or least the government faked it all on a sound stages --all with just slide rules, french curves and super-8 cameras. But they got it done!
Yep. It was all part of a centuries-old conspiracy to fool everyone into denying the evidence of their eyes and letting "authorities" convince them that the world is round.
-
We go to the moon but we can't know why these tools are named "french curve"!
That is strange bizarre
-
@unknownuser said:
We go to the moon but we can't know why these tools are named "french curve"!
That is strange bizarreThe only Frenchman in the discussion is the one who has names like Parrot and Pistol for the different shapes. I think that answers the question. I suspect that in 19th Century architecture they were indispensable for designing French-styled embellishments.
Advertisement