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| + | When you draw in Inkscape, you are working with a flat, two-dimensional drawing surface. But, when you plot your drawing on an egg or other round object, you are subjecting your drawing to a transformation which will cause your drawing to change in appearance. For example, a horizontal line in your Inkscape drawing will have the same physical length when printed on paper regardless of it's vertical height in your drawing. That is not the case when you plot horizontal lines onto a sphere or egg. Horizontal lines in Inkscape becomes lines of latitude on a sphere. However, the physical length of each line of latitude varies with its latitude. Put differently, | ||
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Revision as of 15:54, 21 December 2010
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When you draw in Inkscape, you are working with a flat, two-dimensional drawing surface. But, when you plot your drawing on an egg or other round object, you are subjecting your drawing to a transformation which will cause your drawing to change in appearance. For example, a horizontal line in your Inkscape drawing will have the same physical length when printed on paper regardless of it's vertical height in your drawing. That is not the case when you plot horizontal lines onto a sphere or egg. Horizontal lines in Inkscape becomes lines of latitude on a sphere. However, the physical length of each line of latitude varies with its latitude. Put differently,
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