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  • Designing ANSI with graph paper

    From Daniel@3:633/280.2 to All on Mon Jul 14 18:45:37 2025
    Hey folks -

    I've been speccing out a new door for rubik's cube technique, solution algorithms, scramblers, etc. And while most of the work is in populating
    the database file, I decided to do much of my UI design on graph
    paper. Often times, when my mind is on design, I'm not usually in front
    of a computer.

    My printer has built-in forms, one of which is graph paper. The squares
    are ten-by-eight with each containing small squares in an eight-by-eight configuration. It seemed rather convenient.

    After going over many versions of various screens, it dawned on me tonight
    that the columns and rows aren't perfectly square on the screen, but
    rather rectangular. I don't know if this is universally the case across
    all aspect ratios.

    Would it be a fair approximation to design my drawings such that the rows are one across and two down? Outlining a standard BBS screen would take eighty-by-fourty-eight squares.

    When I draw a square using line glyphs, for instance, it is five wide
    and two down, not counting the corners.

    Thanks

    D



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