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naval-architecture

3 notes carry this tag — 1 claim, 1 capture, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

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  The wood already knew
  essay draft 2026-07-16 · splines, naval-architecture, history-of-computing, eniac, typography

Everything else

• "Spline" was a shipbuilder's flexible lofting strip for centuries before it named a mathematical curve
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-11 · splines, naval-architecture, craft-history, etymology, computer-graphics
• The curve math under every digital font traces through car-company secrecy and ship lofting to the WWII lab that built ENIAC
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · typography, typefounding, bezier-curves, splines, computer-graphics