In my article from two posts ago, I wrote that Gauss, who was a teenager at the time, constructed a regular heptadecagon. I ...

Drawing a perpendicular bisector using the ruler and compass on the screenIn high school entrance exams, math construction ...

Ken Nakagaki‘s Comppass takes brings an age old design tool into the modern era. “The initial idea came from simple curiosity. How would it feel to draw a square with a compass?” Nakagaki told Dezeen.

Okay, this is by far the most unique compass I have seen! For starters, it doesn’t even look like a compass and brings a whole new drawing experience to the table. ITO (糸) means thread in Japanese and ...

In maths, a construction is an accurate drawing. Besides constructing triangles, there are two main constructions which can be done using a ruler, a pair of compasses and a pencil: After the ...