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I need to buy a tool or gauge to draw spiral and ellipse. any info to share?
BTW: I bought a gauge from ebay for fibonacci.
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I use Paintshop Pro, which will draw ellipses really easily. It'll also do spirals via the "Effects ... Distortion effects ... Twirl" menu.
What are you trying to do?
What do you want the ellipse / spirals for?
There may be better ways ...
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data mining...
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Drawing a pickaxe might work better?
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Here's how to draw an ellipse[^]. The anchors are at the two focii.
As far as a spiral goes, there are various kinds, so you have to more specific. An online search will bring up diagrams and even videos.
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I know how to draw ellipse. but using gauge it is much easier, even quicker than drawing it on screen with computer graphics too 
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The mind boggles: "data mining" ... "spiral" ... whazzup ?
You can derive a "golden mean" spiral from the Fibonacci series easily [^].
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the neat thing I am looking for is from that Fibonacci gauge: if I fix two needles of it, the third needle is decided. so this can be easily used to do Fibonacci retracement in stock trading. that is in my mind....
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Read an interesting take today: fundamentals -> what, technicals -> when & how much.
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your link is great! thank you very much!
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When I was a kid there was a fantastic drawing kit for this. I think it was called 'sprirograph'. Yep, just looked it up.
Spirograph - Wikipedia[^]
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this link is very helpful
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Southmountain wrote: I need to buy a tool or gauge to draw spiral and ellipse. any info to share?
Based on the answers one bit of info might be that you should probably define more carefully what sort of "tool" you are actually looking for.
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this is the part I am not clear myself. but I did research and find something similar to ellipsograph..
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I still have no idea what you are trying to achieve, but, if you want to find some number of equally spaced points on the perimeter of an ellipse, it requires calculus/integration.
In my code, I use one of Ramanujan's approximation functions to get satisfactory results for ring/pendant design.
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Given the mention of the Fibonacci gauge, I'm assuming you mean 'draw' as in pencil an paper. Depends on how exact you want to be. There are a variety of technical drawing tools that can help like a French curve and a flexible ruler. There are also templates of various sizes that can be used. I think someone already mentioned that two thumb tacks and a loop of string will also give you an ellipse. They can also be constructed with a compass using four compass points constructing each arc independently and joining them. You might want to search for "technical drawing tools" to get a better idea of your options,
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With Windows 11 around the corner, I am pondering whether I should do a clean install or not, when it arrives. I kind of enjoy doing a clean install, but at the moment I have so much stuff on my desktop that it may take the better part of a day.
What are other members planning to do? Maybe this is a topic for a new survey?
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My way of upgrading Windows is to save up for a new PC.
One usually needs the new hardware anyway.
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If you can afford it - that's undoubtedly the best way to go!
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Yes. At a stretch I can maybe afford a new drive for my current machine to go with the new Windows! 
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When VMs are updated to support it, you might try it out for free by installing a trial edition in a VM (e.g. VMware player, which is free for non-commercial use). This wouldn't give you feel for its true speed, but everything else should work like normal.
That's what I did before migrating to Windows 10.
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Good point! Thanks!
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I agree on the VM approach, I always try new major releases in a VM first
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My inclination will be to go with a clean install. My current machine is running the manufacturer image it came with 18 months ago.
This of course assumes that it meets the hardware requirements for Windows 11  .
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Quote: This of course assumes that it meets the hardware requirements for Windows 11
You can test online for this. However, such a relatively new machine will almost certainly meet the requirements.
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