I fI remembered my trigonometry . . .

[ritaxis]

If I remembered my high school trigonometry I'd be having a lot easier time figuring out the wall mask cutouts I'm trying to make for the Sims 2. I keep getting numbers for the angles that feel just wrong to me. Also, curves. Damn it.

I think I will break out my mother's triangles and french curves, eventually.

Also: facebook has completely changed its layout, and is no longer useful to me at all. It was already annoying, though I got a laugh out of the offer to switch over to Cestina (Czech language). Please. I probably know a hundred words, if I remember them all at once, which I never do. And the grammar is a nightmare, as Frank will tell you over and over again.

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[thomasyan.livejournal.com]

Trig? Now you've got me curious. If you scan in a sketch of what you're trying to do, maybe we could help?

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

I finally cheated. I cut a quarter of a circle and resized the image with lock-aspect off to distort the curve, and then went back and erased and added pixels till I liked the looks of it. And for the straight diagonal pieces I'm just drawing lines from one point to another and letting the angles take care of themselves.

I was thinking at one point that knowing the angles first would somehow make everything easier. I don't know why. I think it's because I looked at what I was drawing and it made me long for my trig class. I loved trig, even if I can't remember any specifics forty years later . . .