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Re: guillemot forms
By:Nick Schade
Date: 1/5/1999, 9:46 am
In Response To: guillemot forms (John Waddington)

You can either look a the drawing in the book to sketch an approximate shape, using the offsets as guidance, or go just leave off those two forms as they will not make a big difference in the long run.

You can just use the offsets as is. They will provide a couple points of reference. You don't need to make the strips conform exactly to the form.

> I have been printing out the Guillemot forms from the offsets in Nick's
> book. I used a spreadsheet then copied the resulting graph to CorelDraw
> for scaling. Most seem to be fine, but I was wondering what others did
> with form 1/2 and form 16.5, which have too few numbers to make anything
> except something roughly resembling a diamond shape. On all of the other
> forms the plotted points were frequent enough that I could round off the
> straight lines to make the curve fair. The biggest problem is on the top
> of these two forms, where the graphs give me sharp points, where they
> should be round. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

> John

Messages In This Thread

guillemot forms
John Waddington -- 1/4/1999, 7:33 pm
Re: guillemot forms
Kenneth Paul -- 1/5/1999, 4:57 pm
Re: guillemot forms
Nick Schade -- 1/5/1999, 9:46 am
Re: guillemot forms
Robert Woodard -- 1/4/1999, 7:40 pm
Re: guillemot forms
John Waddington -- 1/5/1999, 7:46 am
Re: guillemot forms
Ross Leidy -- 1/5/1999, 8:50 am