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Step 6Plotting Your Faceplate: Layout
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The first step is to draw a line down the center of your foam core. This is your depth line. Next, draw a line along a long edge, 2 inches away from the edge (use another piece of foam core as a straight edge). This is your mapline.
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Where the mapline and the depth line is is the center of your mapline. Draw tick marks around the center of your mapline, coming out in either direction. Each tick mark is a "map unit" length away from the next. Half the tick marks on one side of the depth line, half on the other. Note - the depthline is half way between two mapline ticks.
Once you get your tick marks down, the distance between your left-most tick mark and your right-most tick mark should be equal to your mapline length minus one map unit length.
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Starting from your left-most tick mark and your right-most tick mark, draw two lines parallel to the depth line. These are your depth level guides.
Along both depth level guide, draw tick marks. Each tick mark is a "depth unit" length away from the next, with the mapline being 0. Draw as many ticks as you have depth levels.
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Once you have both depth level guides ticked out, connect them. That is, draw a series of lines parallel to your mapline. Once again, use another piece of foam core as a straight edge.
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The last step in plotting your layout is marking everything:
Mark the mapline tick marks from 0 to wires - 1 (for me, I numbered from 0 to 127). 0 is on the left side looking towards the projector.
Mark the depth levels from 0 to however many depth levels you have. The mapline is depth level 0, and the next parallel line is level 1, and so on...
Great! Now you're ready to plot some points.
The first step is to draw a line down the center of your foam core. This is your depth line. Next, draw a line along a long edge, 2 inches away from the edge (use another piece of foam core as a straight edge). This is your mapline.
(image 2)
Where the mapline and the depth line is is the center of your mapline. Draw tick marks around the center of your mapline, coming out in either direction. Each tick mark is a "map unit" length away from the next. Half the tick marks on one side of the depth line, half on the other. Note - the depthline is half way between two mapline ticks.
Once you get your tick marks down, the distance between your left-most tick mark and your right-most tick mark should be equal to your mapline length minus one map unit length.
(image 3)
Starting from your left-most tick mark and your right-most tick mark, draw two lines parallel to the depth line. These are your depth level guides.
Along both depth level guide, draw tick marks. Each tick mark is a "depth unit" length away from the next, with the mapline being 0. Draw as many ticks as you have depth levels.
(image 4)
Once you have both depth level guides ticked out, connect them. That is, draw a series of lines parallel to your mapline. Once again, use another piece of foam core as a straight edge.
(image 5)
The last step in plotting your layout is marking everything:
Mark the mapline tick marks from 0 to wires - 1 (for me, I numbered from 0 to 127). 0 is on the left side looking towards the projector.
Mark the depth levels from 0 to however many depth levels you have. The mapline is depth level 0, and the next parallel line is level 1, and so on...
Great! Now you're ready to plot some points.
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