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Published: 2006-03-23 06:46:45 +0000 UTC; Views: 506; Favourites: 3; Downloads: 28
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While cleaning my room I found my stuff from my high school geometry class. One of the things we did in there was draw "line designs" which emphasized making curves from straight lines. This is just a practice star I made over spring break in about an hour to get me back in the feel of creating line designs. I hope to make more complicated (and original) ones soon, but that depends on schoolwork =/Ball point pen (because it looks much cleaner and more contrasty than the pencil one I tried).
6.5" from top-most point to bottom-most
Note: the preview image just looks like a grayscale star. Full view for individual lines.
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This has an interesting feel of 3D... though with this shape it looks more like it was... 6D? No, probably not...
It reminds me of something we used to do, too... not exactly this, but it seems a bit similar.
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Hmm.. I think 3d would suffice (I hope I haven't fallen into the 6th dimension.. that would just be craaaaaazy!)
Something you used to do when? (or where? how? ...one of those is the question I intend). Point being: I used to draw them for my high school geometry class, but I've also heard of them being done with string. Is that what you did? Or am I going down an entirely different way of thinking?
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Yes, one of the things we did (as children) was with string. Another is - but really different - creating patterns with such special tools... you pinned it in one point, put your pencil into another and swirled it (or how to describe it...). It wasnยดt straight lines, but the finished result was actually a bit similar.
Sorry for being not so clear.
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I never got to do a string one but they always looked so pretty.
A Spirograph ?! Oh my goodness I loved those! I could never get them to work right (stupid gears would always move the way they weren't supposed to) but I loved looking at them and designing them and all (I'm such a geometry geek 
Yeah... this was made with a compass and ruler. ...but now I want a Spirograph
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Yes, it was something like Spirograph (I'm from the Czech Republic, so I guess it was called somehow else...) It's a great thing!
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(That's why I included the pix. I have no idea what it's generic name is.. wikipedia just calls it a "geometric drawing toy.") They're awesome ...and one of few ways I can tolerate math
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Math can be sometimes a really amazing thing - when one knows what to look for. You seem to know.
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I read your comment while taking a break from my cryptology homework (very math-intensive) and it made me laugh. There is much math I don't know, I just appreciate it more than most.
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I meant you seemed to know what good things to look for in math; and still I think you do.
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I figured that was what you meant, but I still appreciated the laugh
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Oh, I remember these! I used to really like doing them, thanks for reminding me.
Would be nice to see some of your own designs too!
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No problem.. glad to find someone else who actually enjoys them
I'm officially on winter break now! woot! 
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Sounds good, I'm on winter vacation as well - and loving it! Finally time to do all these textile projects, although I should of course write some essays too...
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I save all my projects until vacations too.. then get upset when I don't have time to finish them all, lol. Three cheers for winter vacays anyway!
...except for the essays part... that sucks
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oh yes, the essays... got almost 3 to go yet
But Christmas is coming, and that's gotta be a good thing!
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I'd say just get them over with and out of the way but then I'd be a hypocrite, lol
Christmas *is* coming! I can't wait... this time of year makes me so happy
Merry early Christmas!
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