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1:17 PM, Tuesday July 28th 2020

Thanks for the critique! In the first part, I was trying to make the far side smaller than the near side, but the mechanics of that was a bit difficult, because I had to coordinate the motion with also making the degree larger. I considered starting with the minor axis, then the near side, then the lateral lines and finally putting the far side "inside" the two laterals, trying to make it tangent to both lines, while aligned with the minor axis. Would that make sense?

3:53 PM, Tuesday July 28th 2020

Yup, that makes sense, and would be acceptable. Alternatively you could place small points on the page to define the overall size of the ellipse you want to achieve (4 points, basically defining the minor and major axes between them) prior to drawing the ellipse, so you know what to aim for. That's more or less what you'd be doing by drawing the side edges prior to the far end.

10:59 PM, Tuesday July 28th 2020

Nice, thanks for the reply!

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