Cleaning years and years of accumulated shit out of my room. Any ideas what this does? It's sort of a beautifully simple and seemingly useless item. I couldn't ask for something more difficult to look uppic.twitter.com/rA8vRk06CZ
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Replying to @cameronconcarne
Pretty sure it's for drawing parallel lines. Idk how I know this
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Replying to @cameronconcarne
Ok i remember my grandpa had a whole bunch of stuff like this in a drawer just for doing science b4 computer graphics
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Replying to @_StevenFan @cameronconcarne
French curves, stencils, a bendy plastic thing for drawing smooth curves, protractor, compass, rulers, and something like that Also had a pocket slide rule
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I kinda miss this tech in a way. I did a bit of it in the physics labs run by the old school professors. No arbitrary precision and auto fitting models. They made you linearize your data, fit the line, and estimate the parameters and error. Cool for creating intuition.
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Seeking via neuroscience and psychology informed dharma.