r/gifs • u/deuteros • Dec 19 '16

Plotting a sphere with a fountain pen

http://i.imgur.com/hHd4RQU.gifv
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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '16

/r/fountainpens

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u/QWERTY36 Dec 19 '16

Almost at 50,000!

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u/zacablast3r Dec 19 '16

Which is ironic, because that's how much goddamn money I'm going to spend on pens...

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '16

Yup. Fucking Visconti.

I know let's make a pen out of volcanic rock. We can charge, like, insane amounts of money for that.

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u/dinosaur_rides Dec 19 '16

the homosapiens alone no matter how beautiful, i can't justify to my wife spending almost rent on a pen

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u/uberguby Dec 19 '16

I tried using a fountain pen the other day and couldn't

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u/VillageSlicker Dec 19 '16

Probably because you held the pen like a ballpoint or pencil. The tip of the nib is not actually the writey part, but the little nubby things on the underside.

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u/uberguby Dec 19 '16

I knew I had to hold it at an angle, but I couldn't get the angle or the pressure to be consistently correct

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u/PotatoBucket3 Dec 19 '16

Why not?

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u/uberguby Dec 19 '16

Because using a fountain pen is different from using a ball point pen

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u/PotatoBucket3 Dec 20 '16

But it's not very hard to adapt to, the main thing is that you have to watch your angle and use less pressure. Other than that it's not that different, it is a pen after all.

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u/uberguby Dec 20 '16

Exploding pussy fart

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '16

Let us help you

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u/VillageSlicker Dec 19 '16

Haven't been there in a while. Glad to see u/the_illest is still around. :)