A pantograph is a mechanical linkage connected in a special manner based on parallelograms so that the movement of one pen, in tracing an image, produces identical movements in a second pen.
If a line drawing is traced by the first point, an identical, enlarged or miniaturized copy will be drawn by a pen fixed to the other. The pantograph was invented by Cristoph Scheiner.
If a line drawing is traced by the first point, an identical, enlarged or miniaturized copy will be drawn by a pen fixed to the other. The pantograph was invented by Cristoph Scheiner.
The applet above demonstrates how the pantograph works. Move the blue point (hinge) and draw any shape.
Questions:
1.) What do you observe?
2.) What is the relationship between the blue figure and red figure?
3.) Justify your answer in 2.
4.) Prove that your answer in 2 will always hold.
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A lovely applet thanks but as it stands the transformation will be a non-linear one as the yellow, blue and red points are not collinear. Please take a look at various pantograph designs at:
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Thanks
Mark