Thread: Curves - any learning resources?

too many people replied for my brain to handle.

I guess, what curves go wth other curves.... thinking of roman columns and 1600's cathedrals??? ??

I also am not sure what you want Clinton, but is it something like this...

Gothic Geometry

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Originally Posted by Clinton1

I actually can't explain what I want to do...
The best I can do is say... how the hell do you figure out the curve between the curves?

e.g. my hollows and rounds set a set series of curves... but which ones complement each other into a cohesive whole?

I don't know how to get to this... matching curves to curves?????

I should answer that "it's easy-peasy" but in reality it's not.

You need to develop an eye for what is pleasing.

George Walker has written extensively in Popular Woodworking about designing with curves and what works and what doesn't -- after all the ancient Greeks worked most of it out over 2000 years ago.


Given that you are playing with hollows and rounds, I very strongly urge you to get a copy of George R. Walker and Jim Tolpin's By hand and Eye (Lost Art Press).
I say this because the type of curve you use to connect two other curves depends on whether the curves are on
a crown molding -- which is typically mounted above eye height so that you look up to it.
waist molding -- which you look down on to, but only slightly down, or
around floor level -- where you are definitely looking down.

what works in one orientation will be out of place in another.



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