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ramblin_rosie) wrote2013-09-09 08:41 pm
ramblin_rosie) wrote2013-09-09 08:41 pm
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Help me out here, friends...
... because I just can't get this math to work out right.
I'm trying to do a poster-sized calligraphy piece with title, three columns of text, and a fairly intricate border that has to be done linearly and laid out in a spiral (straight line up one side, across the top, down the other side, across the bottom, etc.)--kind of like ribbon. I have a roll of watercolor paper, so I can cut the piece to whatever size I need. And I'm currently figuring 1.75" margins to leave room for the border and 2" total space for the title, though those numbers are somewhat flexible; if I dispense with the border, I'd figure 1" margins. The border pattern is 1/4" wide, with the first/outermost round currently centered at 1/2" from the edge of the paper, and I've left 1/16" space between rounds. I could potentially increase the size and/or spacing, but I can't decrease either at all and still be able to keep the detail using the pens I have.
If the piece is 18" wide, my longest column of text is 27". That can't change much unless I widen the piece significantly (as in maybe making it 30-36" wide--some of the lines I can't break are close to 4" long!).
If I've done the math right, the total length of the border design is about 310". That seems to be too long for three rounds in any case, but in no case that I've tried to crunch numbers for is it long enough to go all the way around a fourth time. In fact, it isn't even enough to go all the way up the left side a fourth time.
And I am giving myself a headache trying to get everything to come out even!
I'm trying to do a poster-sized calligraphy piece with title, three columns of text, and a fairly intricate border that has to be done linearly and laid out in a spiral (straight line up one side, across the top, down the other side, across the bottom, etc.)--kind of like ribbon. I have a roll of watercolor paper, so I can cut the piece to whatever size I need. And I'm currently figuring 1.75" margins to leave room for the border and 2" total space for the title, though those numbers are somewhat flexible; if I dispense with the border, I'd figure 1" margins. The border pattern is 1/4" wide, with the first/outermost round currently centered at 1/2" from the edge of the paper, and I've left 1/16" space between rounds. I could potentially increase the size and/or spacing, but I can't decrease either at all and still be able to keep the detail using the pens I have.
If the piece is 18" wide, my longest column of text is 27". That can't change much unless I widen the piece significantly (as in maybe making it 30-36" wide--some of the lines I can't break are close to 4" long!).
If I've done the math right, the total length of the border design is about 310". That seems to be too long for three rounds in any case, but in no case that I've tried to crunch numbers for is it long enough to go all the way around a fourth time. In fact, it isn't even enough to go all the way up the left side a fourth time.
And I am giving myself a headache trying to get everything to come out even!