French curve

In a cad system it is an electronic 'French curves'.

It's as though it were all drawn with straightedge and French curve.

It's a home for everyone who's ever felt like a French curve in a T square world.

About 50 cars will rotate through the "French Curves" show.

Parsons then had to "fill in" the dots with a French curve to generate an outline.

It looked like a flattened-out teardrop with French curve wings and tail section.

A French curve may also be known as a Burmester curve.

A French curve is a template made out of metal, wood or plastic composed of many different curves.

They come so far up into the wind that the sail-mast spreads into a very taut French curve, and they lose way.

They flocked to the show of the design team As Four, above far left, whose construction was inspired by the draftsman's French curve.

Use of the French Curve from Integrated Publishing.

There are instruments for drawing circles, arcs, other curves and symbols too (compass, French curve, stencil, etc.).

French curve extrapolation is a method suitable for any distribution that has a tendency to be exponential, but with accelerating or decelerating factors.

Another common configuration is the gooseneck scraper, which has a shape resembling a french curve and is useful for scraping curved surfaces.

Drawing board technical drawing tools, such as set squares, shape templates, text stencils and French curves are used to make consistent marks on the paper.

She must have used a draftsman's french curve to design all the rococo curlicues that float across the surface of "Ornamentalia: The Prince."

He was surrounded with a myriad of artist's supplies-crayons, rulers, French curves, several large erasers-as well as a sea of crumpled pieces of paper.

Ms. Brodie spent months experimenting with various forms, eventually settling on one inspired by the French curve, a draftsman's tool from the days before computer-assisted design.

Two methods of drawing smooth curves in manual drafting are the use of French curves or flat splines (flexible curves).

Primary among these are the compasses, used for drawing simple arcs and circles, and the French curve, typically a piece of plastic with complex curves on it.

James Faerron's set, exquisitely lit by David Szlasa, uses a few white benches and a French curve to say everything that's required."

The equivalent of a ruler for drawing or reproducing a smooth curve is known, where it takes the form of a rigid template, as a French curve.

Weisstein, Eric W. French Curve from MathWorld.

Mural with Blue Brushstroke is regarded as Lichtenstein's first 'imperfect' painting due to the depiction of a carpenter's triangle and French curve.

Walt Disney Concert Hall, the new home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, is a French curve in a city of T squares.