[Blindmath] Drawing a family tree

[Sharon Clark]

Dick,

Thanks for this explaination. I never realized that the family tree is
opposite of a real one. 

Sharon 

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Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 12:31 PM
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Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Drawing a family tree

Pranav,

I have attached a zip file containing a png bitmap drawing of a physical
tree, along with an svg rendition of the same drawing. All of the leaves
have been stripped away in both versions making the limbs clearly visible.
Emboss them and you will know what a physical tree looks like.

Be aware, however, that when people create charts commonly called family
trees, the charts are typically very stylized versions of an actual tree,
often with the root at the top and the limbs and the leaves at the bottom.
In other words, a family tree chart is often upside down as compared to a
real tree in nature.

Dick Baldwin

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Pranav Lal <pranav.lal at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to draw my family tree in SVGDraw01. Well, what does a 
> tree look like in 2 dimentions? Is it a long line representing the 
> trunk and smaller lines coming out of that line at different heights 
> that represent the nodes?
>
> Note:
> If this is off topic for this list, I apologize and could someone 
> please point me to a forum where I could ask such a question?
> Pranav
>
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