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I'm always impressed by the "straightedge-and-compass"-flavoured techniques drafters of old used to rotate views of odd 3D shapes from pairs of 2D schematics, in the centuries before CAD software.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descriptive_geometry#Finding_t...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspard_Monge#1789_and_after



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