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  2. Compass (drawing tool) - Wikipedia

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    The pencil holder, thumb screws, brass pivot and branches are all well built. They are used for scribing circles and stepping off repetitive measurements [5] with some accuracy. A reduction compass or proportional dividers is used to reduce or enlarge patterns while conserving angles. Ellipse drawing compasses are used to draw ellipse.

  3. Vitruvian Man - Wikipedia

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    Inspired by the writings of the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius, the drawing depicts a nude man in two superimposed positions with his arms and legs apart and inscribed in both a circle and square. It was described by the art historian Carmen C. Bambach as "justly ranked among the all-time iconic images of Western civilization ". [ 1 ]

  4. Engineering drawing - Wikipedia

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    (For example, a sketch of a hole that is clearly not round still accurately defines the part as having a true round hole, as long as the label says "10mm DIA", because the "DIA" implicitly but objectively tells the user that the skewed drawn circle is a symbol representing a perfect circle.)

  5. Straightedge and compass construction - Wikipedia

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    If we draw both circles, two new points are created at their intersections. Drawing lines between the two original points and one of these new points completes the construction of an equilateral triangle. Therefore, in any geometric problem we have an initial set of symbols (points and lines), an algorithm, and some results.

  6. Technical drawing tool - Wikipedia

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    Traditional and typical styli used for technical drawing are pencils and technical pens. Video of a 1930s dotted-line drawing pen. Pencils in use are usually mechanical pencils with a standard lead thickness. The usual line widths are 0.35 mm, 0.5 mm, 0.7 mm and 1.0 mm. Hardness varies usually from HB to 2H.

  7. Pencil (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    The Apollonian circles, two orthogonal pencils of circles. Any two circles in the plane have a common radical axis, which is the line consisting of all the points that have the same power with respect to the two circles. A pencil of circles (or coaxial system) is the set of all circles in the plane with the same radical axis. [9]

  8. Technical drawing - Wikipedia

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    The drafter uses several technical drawing tools to draw curves and circles. Primary among these are the compasses , used for drawing arcs and circles, and the French curve , for drawing curves. A spline is a rubber coated articulated metal that can be manually bent to most curves.

  9. Sketch (drawing) - Wikipedia

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    A sketch (ultimately from Greek σχέδιος – schedios, "done extempore" [1] [2] [3]) is a rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not usually intended as a finished work. [4] A sketch may serve a number of purposes: it might record something that the artist sees, it might record or develop an idea for later use or it might be used as a ...