User talk:Osbie

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Software for showing how to tie knots
Thanks for your comments about the Buntline hitch article... Sorry for my delay in responding. Actually the first diagram (for the non-slipped variation) was drawn by someone else, I simply used a graphics editor (specifically GIMP) to modify the shape of the ends to show the slipped form. I've actually been meaning to learn how to use Inkscape to draw better knot diagrams, but I'm a much better photographer than graphic artist -- so mostly I've stuck to taking photographs of knots rather than drawing them. If you come across ".svg" images of knot diagrams those are vector graphics and are actually the best format to draw knot diagrams in, and that's what Inkscape produces. You could ask the creators of some of those images for advice on this topic. Hope that helps.

If you have any other questions regarding the Knots project or Wikipedia in general, feel free to ask. Regards. --Dfred (talk) 14:09, 8 July 2008 (UTC)