Are there any computer software programs for making parabolic straight-line art (like the kind done with nails and wire on a wood board), so that I can create on the computer the entire skeletal layout, and vary each of the individual parameters (spine segment length, number of "nodal points" on a particular spine segment, and degree of any individual angle) then print it out? I can't seem to find one.
shareTry packages used by architecture students.
Better yet, do it yourself, you never learn making a computer do it for you
I used to make that type of thought up, painstakingly sketched, plotted out and hand-drawn artwork: as a preteen, teenager, young adult and through my 30s. During the computer programming and use boom of the 1980s through the 2000s, as a beginning programmer myself, I kept thinking that a comprehensive on-screen computer interface program could be written, but my language of expertise then was COBOL - strictly an English language text-based language that in no way lent itself to the visual arts type of programming I wanted to use to do the straight-line art that I knew could be made magnitudes of degrees easier than what I did by hand. And I kept expecting that someone with far more expertise than myself, who was thinking in the same way as me, would soon come up with one. But even to this day, I still have yet to come across this type of software, and I am baffled that this is still the case.
Again, if I had not blinked and gotten out of the programming profession for an instant to find the industry had raced away from me when I tried to return just one year later, and instead had continued to develop in that field, I would have myself created just such a program, if only for my own use and enjoyment.
But I'll keep looking - I hear tell that perhaps Adobe or another source which name eludes me right now might have something similar to this.
There just has to be, in this era of heightened computer utility.
Anyway, thanks again for your time in trying to help me.