Arda Gündoğdu
Hazım Berkay Aytekin
Zeynep Keserli
A pantograph (m Greek roots παντ- ‘all, every’ and γραφ- ‘to write’, from their original use for copying writing) is a mechanical linkage connected in a manner based on parallelograms so that the movement of one pen, in tracing an image, produces identical movements in a second pen. If a line drawing is traced by the first point, an identical, enlarged, or miniaturized copy will be drawn by a pen fixed to the other.
Applications:
Drafting The original use of the pantograph was for copying and scaling line drawings.
Sculpture and Minting A 3D version of the pantograph was built to be used in sculpture (19th century). The same mechanism is still used to reduce the size of large relief designs for coins down to the required size of the coin.
