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Use a pantograph? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantograph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantograph Log scale is a linear fractal, self-similar.
by carapace 6y ago
Use a pantograph?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantograph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantograph
Log scale is a linear fractal, self-similar.
- jedimastert 6y agoThat would be useful for geometric scales, which I don't believe a logarithmic scale is
- carapace 6y agoI could be wrong, I haven't had enough coffee yet. Say you constructed a pantograph where the ratio of the "inner" point to the "outer" point was ... um ... log(5)? for a decimal scale? ( I think you could make a binary scale but I can't think what the ratio would be log2(1)? ) Anyway, you'd start with the pantograph's base and outer point at the ends of your ruler, mark off the inner point, and then repeat on each sub interval, and then again recursively until you ran out of room. Like I said, I could be wrong about this.