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[logansrogue]

Someone smart, explain this to me: maths shit

ETA: Interesting article... http://shroud.typepad.com/topics/2003/09/the_strange_ima.html

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[annasbeta.livejournal.com]

::boogles mind::

Sorry I have no clue. Will keep looking at it though to figure it out.

[tommmo.livejournal.com]

The big red triangle inclines less sharply than the small green one. If you look along the overall diagonal edge, you'll notice that the line isn't straight, on the first it corners in slightly, and on the second it corners out slightly.

Because the second one corners out, the overall shape takes up a little more space than the first one. Since the two shapes are made from the same pieces, the space has to come from somewhere, which is where the little gap at the bottom comes into things.

I don't know if that was clear enough. It makes sense to me, anyway :)

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

OH! I almost had it!! Cause I saw that the inclines were different in the other picture! And my artist mind thought, "That's different, that line, therefore that's probably where the extra space comes from." But I didn't know how to explain that, I thought that I was just wrong! :)

[davinator.livejournal.com]

The triangles inclines are different because the slopes of the diagonals on each _is_ different. The red one rises 3 grid blocks for eight horizontal blocks, that's a slope of 3/8 = 0.375. The green one's slope (called "rise over run") is 2/5 = 0.4. So the slope on the green triangle is steeper than the red one, your eyes were right.

[shimmiwyld.livejournal.com]

It's basically a 'restricted space with use of angles' problem. Red triangle gives freer movement with different heights whereas the green triangle gives limited movement thus not allowing the other shapes to interlock as they are meant to.
Try fitting the green triangle in the red one, now count the space left over. No matter what you do it's the triangles that manipulate what happen to the combined shape.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Wow... you're smart. *awe*

[shimmiwyld.livejournal.com]

*pets the pretty Nacey* Maths Geekoid, coming through! 8)

[octopedingenue]

In a very interesting book I just finished reading, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach, there's a chapter with a lot of stuff about a slightly crazy doctor in the early 1900s who nailed corpses to a wooden cross to try to determine if the "blood" stains on the Shroud of Turin were accurate. A lot of his data, though, is being debunked by a modern pathologist who studies dead bodies and also uses live volunteers (he ties them to a cross with leather straps).

[http://users.livejournal.com/lothar_/]

That gets an OMGWTFBBQ. ^_^;;;;;;

[mix-o-choc.livejournal.com]

Gaah! Tis Witchcraft! *lol*

[davinator.livejournal.com]

I've seen a variety of evidence both ways on the shroud. Should it be a fake, most dating seems to place it in the Renaissance period. Because the head is measured to be disproportionately large compared to the body, it's theorized the body was done by someone knowledgeable in anatomy and able to read the Scriptures and the face was then done the only way a skilled artist of the day could do it - a self portrait.

This means two amazing possibilities exist: either the cloth is the burial shroud of Christ, or it's the product of the only man in Italy during the Renaissance likely scientifically/anatomically knowledgeable and artistically talented enough to produce such a work, and therefore a _self-portrait_ ... of Leonardo da Vinci.

Either would be cause for awe.

[akire-yta.livejournal.com]

heya

message from Cait (stuck at work and can't access stuff) - she's got a headache, and can't make it tonight.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Hey. Can I ask you something? You know that utterly scrumptious picture of Angelina Jolie? Do you have a bigger version of it? If you do, could you send it to my nacey iinet email address? *bats eyelashes*

[akire-yta.livejournal.com]

hey nancy, finally got the reply (damn lj)

which utterly scrumptious picture of angie?

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

The one where you can see her nipples. *ducks and blushes furiously*

[akire-yta.livejournal.com]

what nipples? we don't have visible nipples here...

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner. *le sigh*

[akire-yta.livejournal.com]

she is a very very purty little girl, isn't she?

of course, Lucy Lui does a lot more see-through top stuff, but thats a drool for another bucket