[meteorite-list] preference question on scale cubes and a poll

From: Gary Fujihara <fujmon_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2013 17:44:04 -1000
Message-ID: <82CE9EA2-C820-481A-970E-6D67FE6702C6_at_mac.com>

Without the dot. The letters represent the abbreviation of North, South, East, West, Top and Bottom, and most people know or can guess this without the dot or period after the letter.

The hash marks detract from the aesthetic simplicity of a scale cube. Besides, I think printing hashmarks on a scale cube would necessitate oversizing the cube to be able to accommodate all delineations from 0mm to 10mm. Then the scalecube would not represent 1cm on each side. This would be confusing and harder to interpret. My 2?

gary

On Mar 3, 2013, at 5:38 PM, rexscates at comcast.net wrote:

> I am getting a bunch more made and I have a question on the dot (.) after each number
>
> 1. do people want the dot or not?
>
> basically every custom cube I made the people did not want the dot.
> At that time I asked around and people said yes no dot on next batch would be nice.
> I removed the dot and now people are asking why I don't have the dot and want it the old way.
>
>
> second question and this one might raise controversy if on the B side I made a metric hash mark series would people want that or not? before you say yes or no also know that I have to put a tiny hole (with the current way of plating them)so that hole would be on the side with the hash marks.
>
> for an example of hash marks go to scaleobjects.com
>
> I am also finalizing my phot cube designs and if anyoen wants any last input let me know by email rexscates at comcast.net
>
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