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  2. Lofting - Wikipedia

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    A 1:1 scale construction drawing of a boat and its parts Lines plan A scaled-down version of a full-sized drawing often including the body, plan, profile, and section views Body Plan A view of the boat from both dead ahead and dead astern split in half Plan view A view looking down on the boat from above Profile view A view of the boat from the ...

  3. Technical drawing - Wikipedia

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    An exploded-view drawing is a technical drawing of an object that shows the relationship or order of assembly of the various parts. [13] It shows the components of an object slightly separated by distance or suspended in surrounding space in the case of a three-dimensional exploded diagram.

  4. Line art - Wikipedia

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    One of the most fundamental elements of art is the line. An important feature of a line is that it indicates the edge of a two-dimensional (flat) shape or a three-dimensional form. A shape can be indicated by means of an outline, and a three-dimensional form can be indicated by contour lines. [1]

  5. Contour drawing - Wikipedia

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    In a continuous-line drawing, the artist looks both at the subject and the paper, moving the medium over the paper, and creating a silhouette of the object. Like blind contour drawing , contour drawing is an artful experience that relies more on sensation than perception; it's important to be guided by instinct. [ 2 ]

  6. Thomas Hubbard Sumner - Wikipedia

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    As the circle has a radius of thousands of miles, a segment a few tens of miles long closely approximates a straight line. [ 4 ] : 449–453 Sumner published his findings six years later in 1843 [ 3 ] and this method of resolving a sight for two different latitudes and drawing a "line of position" through the two positions obtained was an ...

  7. Straightedge and compass construction - Wikipedia

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    [2]: p. 1 They could also construct half of a given angle, a square whose area is twice that of another square, a square having the same area as a given polygon, and regular polygons of 3, 4, or 5 sides [2]: p. xi (or one with twice the number of sides of a given polygon [2]: pp. 49–50 ).

  8. Diagonal method - Wikipedia

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    Diagonal method of a 3:2 image. The diagonal method (DM) is a rule of thumb in photography, painting and drawing.Dutch photographer and lecturer Edwin Westhoff discovered the method when, after having long taught the rule of thirds in photography courses, he conducted visual experiments to investigate why this rule of thirds only loosely prescribes that points of interest should be placed more ...

  9. Commentary (philology) - Wikipedia

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    In philology, a commentary is a line-by-line or even word-by-word explication usually attached to an edition of a text in the same or an accompanying volume. It may draw on methodologies of close reading and literary criticism, but its primary purpose is to elucidate the language of the text and the specific culture that produced it, both of which may be foreign to the reader.