Math Photo: Shadows and Triangles
The sun sometimes turns rectangles into triangles. A nice Sunday morning image.
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Math Photo: A Most Mathematical Building
Here are some images from Harpa, in Reykjavík, Iceland. Harpa is home to the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and the Icelandic Opera, and is one of the most mathematical buildings I have ever seen. The face Read more…
3 Comments
Alan · December 13, 2010 at 7:50 pm
Interesting… The two triangles and the gate can form a pyramid of some sort. I wonder how the graph of the area of the triangular pyramid as the sun moves from sunrise to sunset and back. Would there be a break in the graph?
Ahmed Gouda · December 14, 2010 at 5:04 pm
The Crack in the sidewalk and the wall can make two similar triangles, or if you imagine it to be a plane a similar Triangular pyramid. This feels like an average “rate at which the volume changes if…” question.
Milagrios Metivier · May 28, 2011 at 10:56 pm
Excelent optical view! El sol refleja la sombra en forma de triangulos formada por los hierros.
So good!! 😀
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