Versatile Art Tool.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIX, Issue IX, 30 August 1902, Page 516

Versatile Art Tool.

While it is possible for draughtsmen and other artists to draw with great accuracy certain figures by means of the ordinary instruments of their craft, there are other figures which they cannot draw in this way, and the consequence is that such fig-ores, when drawn, are. rarely as faultless as they should be.

To illustrate, it is easy to draw straight lines or simple curves with the ordinary rule and compass, but there are curves more or less complex which it is impossible to draw in this way.

Now, however, an instrument has been invented by means of which, it is said, even the most complex curve can be easily drawn.

This is in many respects like an ordinary rule. It differs from it, however. in that it can be readily adapted to suit any figure that is to be drawn.

Thus an artist can draw even the most difficult curve by shaping this instrument so that it will give him the correct measurements.