Random update: I am trying something new in metal ornamentation, something not built on discrete units. Because I have brain weasels, it therefore involves trigonometry instead.
Sad part is, I could make do with a compass and/or protractor. But I haven't got the latter, and I'm not sure I'd invest in the former, since I'd need arcs with a 0.5cm radius or less.
Screw it. Protractors are cheap and plentiful. Measuring (√5)/2 centimeters, on the other hand... I'm toddling off to the store.
Actually, ideally, I'd like to be able to use 3.3mm as a base unit... so yeah. Nothing like trying to work on a scale where the width of your pencil guide is a noticeable margin of error....
Also, protractors? Not as plentiful as I remembered. *shakes fist at stationery section of grocery store* Looks like it's time to either engineer a rudimentary compass, or break out cardboard for template angles.
Well, it could work too... any ornamentation that requires measuring the half the square root of five centimeters is pretty mental... in the positive and negative versions of the word.
Yeah... brainweasels. Those little niggly things in the back of your head that scream "THAT PICTURE ISN'T LEVEL!", "THE LAUNDRY HAMPERS AREN'T IN ASCENDING SIZE ORDER!", "YOUR "EQUILATERAL TRIANGLE" HAS A 63° ANGLE IN IT, YOU FOOL!" and so on. They're the little voices you have to fight off to avoid falling completely into OC(P)D territory.
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Screw it. Protractors are cheap and plentiful. Measuring (√5)/2 centimeters, on the other hand... I'm toddling off to the store.
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Also, protractors? Not as plentiful as I remembered. *shakes fist at stationery section of grocery store* Looks like it's time to either engineer a rudimentary compass, or break out cardboard for template angles.
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I have whatever the opposite of brain weasels is. I think. Or they've taken over.
Call help?
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