{"id":25186,"date":"2024-04-19T11:55:08","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T16:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=25186"},"modified":"2024-04-19T12:00:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T17:00:29","slug":"the-plumb-bob-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=25186","title":{"rendered":"The Plumb Bob Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

UC#3<\/strong> has asked the near-impossible of WLBOTT<\/strong>. He wants us to make “plumb bobs” interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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UC#2 might want to pivot on his research to fully investigate the origins and use of plumb bobs in ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman construction. Full Fulbright guaranteed<\/p>\nUC#3<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Challenge Accepted!
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Etymology<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plumb in plumb bob derives from Latin plumbum (‘lead’), the material once used for the weighted bob at the end. The adjective plumb developed by extension, as did the noun aplomb, from the notion of “standing upright”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[But what about the “bob?”<\/em>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Determining center of gravity of an irregular shape<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students of figure drawing<\/strong> will also make use of a plumb line to find the vertical axis through the center of gravity of their subject and lay it down on paper as a point of reference.<\/p>\nWikipedia<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Lifelike Heads<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Lifelike Heads: Discover Your Inner Artist as You Learn to Draw Portraits in Graphite<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This book is the perfect guide for creating lifelike representations of the human head in graphite. Experienced artist Lance Richlin<\/strong> begins by explaining drawing tools and materials, shading techniques, and the important anatomical structures of the head.<\/p>\nAmazon<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

AI has some “alternate” views of the Lifelike Head<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oh, Grow Up!<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Wooden Mannequins to Help Us Out<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Scott Eaton’s Bodies in Motion<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Scott Eaton<\/strong> has some beautiful images of Bodies in Motion on his web site<\/a> and Facebook<\/a> page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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WLBOTT Dept. of Plumbage & Vertical Compliance<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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UC#3 has asked the near-impossible of WLBOTT. He wants us to make “plumb bobs” interesting. UC#2 might want to pivot on his research to fully investigate the origins and use of plumb bobs in ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman construction. Full Fulbright guaranteed UC#3 Challenge Accepted! Etymology The plumb in plumb bob derives from Latin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,39,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curated-absurdity","category-random-acts-of-wlbottness","category-technoblott"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25186"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25276,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25186\/revisions\/25276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}