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    Guild Adept Slylok's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by thomryng View Post
    Well, I found the Wulff net on Wikicommons, but I still had to put together the circular "frames" by hand. The bits for the individual degrees proved a bit tricky, as the actual distance between the ten-degree arcs on Wulff net are not a fixed distance apart. I ended up rotating a series of copied lines between .9 and 1.15 degrees for half a hemisphere and then copying and flipping them.

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    wow, i can see how that would be tricky. I actually did the frame first and then the projection lines. how did it turn out for you?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Slylok View Post
    wow, i can see how that would be tricky. I actually did the frame first and then the projection lines. how did it turn out for you?
    Not perfect, but not horrible: Click image for larger version. 

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    Thom Ryng

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    "The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is very nearly reasonable, but not quite." (G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy)

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