How does the word "spline" mean curved (and why not just usethe word curved)?
Garrett Wollman wrote, on Mon, 06 Oct 2014 04:50:01 +0000:
In woodworking, a spline is a long (and perforce rigid) bar of material used to join two grooved work pieces (essentially acting as a two-sided "tongue"), running cross-grain and providing greater strength than a simple butt joint by greatly increasing glue surface area. I suspect the same sense exists in metalworking as well. With that as a starting point, I find the woodworking use of "spline" here. http://www.woodworkersjournal.com/re...tsWithSplines/ I wonder if the woodworkers know that a "spline" means a curved line? http://autocadtips.files.wordpress.c...ader.jpg?w=640 http://help.autodesk.com/cloudhelp/2...886CB2A345.png |
How does the word "spline" mean curved (and why not just usethe word curved)?
David Howard wrote:
Garrett Wollman wrote, on Mon, 06 Oct 2014 04:50:01 +0000: In woodworking, a spline is a long (and perforce rigid) bar of material used to join two grooved work pieces (essentially acting as a two-sided "tongue"), running cross-grain and providing greater strength than a simple butt joint by greatly increasing glue surface area. I suspect the same sense exists in metalworking as well. With that as a starting point, I find the woodworking use of "spline" here. http://www.woodworkersjournal.com/re...tsWithSplines/ I wonder if the woodworkers know that a "spline" means a curved line? http://autocadtips.files.wordpress.c...ader.jpg?w=640 http://help.autodesk.com/cloudhelp/2...886CB2A345.png I didn't read everything above.. but maybe the use of spline by woodworkers is more closely related to the "splint"--like you would use on a broken finger. |
How does the word "spline" mean curved (and why not just usethe word curved)?
Bill wrote:
David Howard wrote: Garrett Wollman wrote, on Mon, 06 Oct 2014 04:50:01 +0000: In woodworking, a spline is a long (and perforce rigid) bar of material used to join two grooved work pieces (essentially acting as a two-sided "tongue"), running cross-grain and providing greater strength than a simple butt joint by greatly increasing glue surface area. I suspect the same sense exists in metalworking as well. With that as a starting point, I find the woodworking use of "spline" here. http://www.woodworkersjournal.com/re...tsWithSplines/ I wonder if the woodworkers know that a "spline" means a curved line? http://autocadtips.files.wordpress.c...ader.jpg?w=640 http://help.autodesk.com/cloudhelp/2...886CB2A345.png I didn't read everything above.. but maybe the use of spline by woodworkers is more closely related to the "splint"--like you would use on a broken finger. How about this--to "spline", to smooth or set straight. Everybody happy? ; ) Bill |
How does the word "spline" mean curved (and why not just usethe word curved)?
Bill wrote, on Mon, 06 Oct 2014 02:08:32 -0400:
I didn't read everything above.. but maybe the use of spline by woodworkers is more closely related to the "splint"--like you would use on a broken finger. That might explain why the woodworker's "spline" is straight, while the draftsman's spline is decidedly curved! http://knowledge.autodesk.com/suppor...63F68-htm.html http://autocadtips.wordpress.com/201...ders-mleaders/ I wonder how a woodworking draftsman handles the confusion when he has to draw a draftsman's splined leader to a woodworking spline? |
How does the word "spline" mean curved (and why not just usethe word curved)?
David Howard wrote:
Bill wrote, on Mon, 06 Oct 2014 02:08:32 -0400: I didn't read everything above.. but maybe the use of spline by woodworkers is more closely related to the "splint"--like you would use on a broken finger. That might explain why the woodworker's "spline" is straight, while the draftsman's spline is decidedly curved! http://knowledge.autodesk.com/suppor...63F68-htm.html http://autocadtips.wordpress.com/201...ders-mleaders/ I wonder how a woodworking draftsman handles the confusion when he has to draw a draftsman's splined leader to a woodworking spline? If this a problem for him, then he should sort nails: The nails to use on the east side of the house in one pile, and those for the west side of his house in another pile. The latter was the sort of the punch line to a joke that went around last week or so. |
How does the word "spline" mean curved (and why not just use theword curved)?
On Monday, October 6, 2014 12:13:00 AM UTC-5, David Howard wrote:
In woodworking, a spline is a long (and perforce rigid) bar of material used to join two grooved work pieces (essentially acting as a two-sided "tongue"), running cross-grain and providing greater strength than a simple butt joint by greatly increasing glue surface area. I suspect the same sense exists in metalworking as well. With that as a starting point, I find the woodworking use of "spline" here. http://www.woodworkersjournal.com/re...tsWithSplines/ I wonder if the woodworkers know that a "spline" means a curved line? http://autocadtips.files.wordpress.c...ader.jpg?w=640 http://help.autodesk.com/cloudhelp/2...886CB2A345.png A spline, in caning chairs, etal., is a "reed" used to hold cane in place, as with pressed in cane. It's flexible, so it can be installed in/on straight and curved grooves/runs. A caning spline is usually seen, once installed, so it is part of the "decor" of the caned application. Sonny |
How does the word "spline" mean curved (and why not just use the word curved)?
"David Howard" wrote in message ... Garrett Wollman wrote, on Mon, 06 Oct 2014 04:50:01 +0000: In woodworking, a spline is a long (and perforce rigid) bar of material used to join two grooved work pieces (essentially acting as a two-sided "tongue"), running cross-grain and providing greater strength than a simple butt joint by greatly increasing glue surface area. I suspect the same sense exists in metalworking as well. In the boat-building craft, a spline is a long thin strip of wood with very uniform bending characteristics. It's used in a process called lofting. In the days before computers did all this, the designer produced a table called a table of offsets, and the builder laid out the lines of the boat full-size on a large flat surface (often in the loft of the boat shop, hence the term lofting). The boat builder laid out the coordinates of points on the surface from the table of offsets, and then used the spline to fair the lines of the boat into fair curves. The builder would try to locate the spline so that it ran through all the points, holding it down in place with weights called ducks (hence the phrase "get your ducks in a row"). Because the table of offsets contained coordinates to no better than a sixteenth of an inch, and also because there were sometimes errors in the table, the builder would nudge the spline a bit here and there to end up with a fair curve that went through the points as closely as possible. Only from a fair curve could you bend a plank to match the lines of the boat. Tom |
How does the word "spline" mean curved (and why not just use the word curved)?
"tdacon" wrote in
: "David Howard" wrote in message ... Garrett Wollman wrote, on Mon, 06 Oct 2014 04:50:01 +0000: In woodworking, a spline is a long (and perforce rigid) bar of material used to join two grooved work pieces (essentially acting as a two-sided "tongue"), running cross-grain and providing greater strength than a simple butt joint by greatly increasing glue surface area. I suspect the same sense exists in metalworking as well. In the boat-building craft, a spline is a long thin strip of wood with very uniform bending characteristics. It's used in a process called lofting. The original definition of spline (according to the OED) was simply a long thin strip of wood - used to keep two boards aligned and flat (the cross-grain application Garrett describes is more modern - and depends on modern glues, I think). A later definition is a spline was a rigid bar used to lock two pieces together - typically a wheel on an axle or something similar. Today we'd usually call that a key. Because spline stock tended to be long and relatively thin, the name transferred to the lath used in lofting for shipbuilding, as David says. By extension the same name came to be used for small lead strips which would hold a curved shape - today we call these flexible curves (and they're usually plastic-covered). Curves laid out with a spline (i.e. a flexible curve) were logically called "spline curves", and in the early days of computers mathematicians trying to analyse such curves by computers came up with math functions to represent the curve as a series of short segments; those functions in turn came to be called splines. By a further extension, the particular curve created by a spline function is also called a spline. Probably more than anyone cares to know :-) John |
How does the word "spline" mean curved (and why not just usethe word curved)?
On 6/10/2014 1:13 pm, David Howard wrote:
Garrett Wollman wrote, on Mon, 06 Oct 2014 04:50:01 +0000: In woodworking, a spline is a long (and perforce rigid) bar of material used to join two grooved work pieces (essentially acting as a two-sided "tongue"), running cross-grain and providing greater strength than a simple butt joint by greatly increasing glue surface area. I suspect the same sense exists in metalworking as well. With that as a starting point, I find the woodworking use of "spline" here. http://www.woodworkersjournal.com/re...tsWithSplines/ I wonder if the woodworkers know that a "spline" means a curved line? http://autocadtips.files.wordpress.c...ader.jpg?w=640 http://help.autodesk.com/cloudhelp/2...886CB2A345.png Word Origin and History for spline n. |
How does the word "spline" mean curved (and why not just usethe word curved)?
On Mon, 06 Oct 2014 09:20:25 -0700, tdacon wrote:
The builder would try to locate the spline so that it ran through all the points, holding it down in place with weights called ducks (hence the phrase "get your ducks in a row"). I had always thought that lining up your ducks came from shooting them with a gun. Who knew? |
How does the word "spline" mean curved (and why not just usethe word curved)?
snidely.too wrote, on Mon, 06 Oct 2014 12:22:31 -0700:
A draftsman's spline is a flexible ruler, originally formed (AIUI) by shaving down a standard wooden spline until it was thin enough to be flexible. That explains why a woodworking spline, which is straight, would be applied to a draftsman's spline (which is decidedly curved). |
How does the word "spline" mean curved (and why not just use theword curved)?
On Monday, October 6, 2014 5:33:06 PM UTC-5, John McCoy wrote:
Curves laid out with a spline (i.e. a flexible curve) were logically called "spline curves", ..... Getting off subject, a little, but similar.... Long ago, I saw a carpenter use a metal Venetian blind slat to draw a straight line, 90 degrees to the front edge, across and up a counter top, with continuous (curved corner) back splash. I thought that was a neat trick to get that accurate curved layout/alignment line. Since then, I'd gotten a Venetian blind slat for when I need to sketch a similar curved line. Sonny |
How does the word "spline" mean curved (and why not just usethe word curved)?
On 10/6/14 11:52 PM, Jim Pierson wrote:
On Mon, 06 Oct 2014 09:20:25 -0700, tdacon wrote: The builder would try to locate the spline so that it ran through all the points, holding it down in place with weights called ducks (hence the phrase "get your ducks in a row"). I had always thought that lining up your ducks came from shooting them with a gun. Who knew? Maybe it does, or maybe it comes from ducklings following their mother, as Snidely said. It seems unlikely to come from the name of weights used with splines, though. According to Michael Quinion at World Wide Words, the oldest known example of "getting your ducks in a row" is from 1889, in a newspaper. http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-duc5.htm But at Google Books I can't find any uses of "ducks" for spline weights before 1939. Instead they were called "weights" in print. No doubt drafters called them ducks earlier than 1939, but I can hardly imagine that the term was sufficiently widely known in 1889 to be used metaphorically in a newspaper. (Of course, "I can hardly imagine" isn't proof.) -- Jerry Friedman |
How does the word "spline" mean curved (and why not just use the word curved)?
"Lewis" wrote in message ... Don't believe that for a second. Got a reliable source on that? What part don't you believe, and upon what basis? Tom |
How does the word "spline" mean curved (and why not just usethe word curved)?
On 10/6/2014 2:10 AM, Bill wrote:
Bill wrote: David Howard wrote: Garrett Wollman wrote, on Mon, 06 Oct 2014 04:50:01 +0000: In woodworking, a spline is a long (and perforce rigid) bar of material used to join two grooved work pieces (essentially acting as a two-sided "tongue"), running cross-grain and providing greater strength than a simple butt joint by greatly increasing glue surface area. I suspect the same sense exists in metalworking as well. With that as a starting point, I find the woodworking use of "spline" here. http://www.woodworkersjournal.com/re...tsWithSplines/ I wonder if the woodworkers know that a "spline" means a curved line? http://autocadtips.files.wordpress.c...ader.jpg?w=640 http://help.autodesk.com/cloudhelp/2...886CB2A345.png I didn't read everything above.. but maybe the use of spline by woodworkers is more closely related to the "splint"--like you would use on a broken finger. How about this--to "spline", to smooth or set straight. Everybody happy? ; ) Bill No need. All they have to do is look at http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/spline?s=t to find that spline (like many words) has multiple meanings depending on context. |
How does the word "spline" mean curved (and why not just usethe word curved)?
On 10/6/2014 1:32 AM, David Howard wrote:
Bill wrote, on Mon, 06 Oct 2014 02:08:32 -0400: I didn't read everything above.. but maybe the use of spline by woodworkers is more closely related to the "splint"--like you would use on a broken finger. That might explain why the woodworker's "spline" is straight, while the draftsman's spline is decidedly curved! http://knowledge.autodesk.com/suppor...63F68-htm.html http://autocadtips.wordpress.com/201...ders-mleaders/ I wonder how a woodworking draftsman handles the confusion when he has to draw a draftsman's splined leader to a woodworking spline? Probably the same way he distinguishes, multiples of "two" intersecting lines running "to" infinity, "too". |
How does the word "spline" mean curved (and why not just usethe word curved)?
On 10/6/2014 12:13 AM, David Howard wrote:
Garrett Wollman wrote, on Mon, 06 Oct 2014 04:50:01 +0000: In woodworking, a spline is a long (and perforce rigid) bar of material used to join two grooved work pieces (essentially acting as a two-sided "tongue"), running cross-grain and providing greater strength than a simple butt joint by greatly increasing glue surface area. I suspect the same sense exists in metalworking as well. With that as a starting point, I find the woodworking use of "spline" here. http://www.woodworkersjournal.com/re...tsWithSplines/ I wonder if the woodworkers know that a "spline" means a curved line? http://autocadtips.files.wordpress.c...ader.jpg?w=640 http://help.autodesk.com/cloudhelp/2...886CB2A345.png A spline is ALSO a curved line. You do realize that many words have many different meanings.... Consider, leaves, race, etc. |
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