Today a friend of mine made me realize that roundabouts have “perfect” road markings around them and i started wandering how a machine would go about making a circle without a compass-like system. So i tried google but every result led to either a janky home made compass or some sort of hand-drawing technique. I assume it should be possible to draw a circle knowing the radius in an analog system without a compass but i can’t figure out how. Plus i don’t know how the physical structure of a roundabout is made to be round and that is even weirder to think about.
TLDR: How are roundabouts and round road markings made?


The tripods they look through have always allowed them to measure things in a way that results in elevation, distance, and some other stuff too.
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Thank you!