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Awesome! Explanation please? :)

dante in the uF chat room looked up the person who is famous for his photography of St Paul's Cathedral. Google is your friend.

Can someone explain why I get the word "other" printed on top when I input "450" into Balance the Books instead of getting the points and solving the puzzle?

Login error. Relogin and then input your answer.

In tomb,

So far, in the blanks, from top row to bottom:

Double or Nothing

Man on a Flying Trapeze

Flag

Sleeper

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Rock the Baby

Eiffel Tower

Flying Saucer

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Around the World

Two left. I can't figure out the trick that looks like a zig zag.

The zig-zag is BEHIND BARS. Fits the top one.

Something to think about.

Now in Leonardo's early writings we find him echoing the precise theory of perspective as set out by Alberti and Piero. He writes:-

... Perspective is a rational demonstration by which experience confirms that the images of all things are transmitted to the eye by pyramidal lines. Those bodies of equal size will make greater or lesser angles in their pyramids according to the different distances between the one and the other. by a pyramid of lines I mean those which depart from the superficial edges of bodies and converge over a distance to be drawn together in a single point.

He developed mathematical formulas to compute the relationship between the distance from the eye to the object and its size on the intersecting plane, that is the canvas on which the picture will be painted:-

If you place the intersection one metre from the eye, the first object, being four metres from the eye, will diminish by three-quarters of its height on the intersection; and if it is eight metres from the eye it will diminish by seven-eighths and if it is sixteen metres away it will diminish by fifteen-sixteenths, and so on. As the distance doubles so the diminution will double.

Not only did Leonardo study the geometry of perspective but he also studied the optical principles of the eye in his attempts to create reality as seen by the eye. By around 1490 Leonardo had moved forward in his thinking about perspective. He was one of the first people to study the converse problem of perspective: given a picture drawn in correct linear perspective compute where the eye must be placed to see this correct perspective. Now he was led to realise that a picture painted in correct linear perspective only looked right if viewed from one exact location. Brunelleschi had been well aware of this when he arranged his demonstration of perspective through a hole. However for a painting on a wall, say, many people would not view it from the correct position, indeed for many paintings it would be impossible for someone viewing them to have their eye in this correct point, as it may have been well above their heads.

This comes from UF, thanks and credit to EarlyWyrm:

Meet The Composers

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I was going to wait until we had more, but we're not making much progress on Composers. So far we have identified:

Song 3: Beethoven

Song 5: Mozart

Song 6: Bach

I'm trying to midi-fy the notes, and will keep updating until either everything is transcribed, or someone solves the puzzle:

http://bsctx.com/song1.mp3

http://bsctx.com/song2.mp3

http://bsctx.com/song4.mp3

http://bsctx.com/song7.mp3

http://bsctx.com/song13.mp3

WOW I went to the supermarket and you guys posted more than 10 pages !!!! arghhhhhhh

Monopoly board i was playing with my friends yesterday. and its still lying on my desk. Anyways the colors are the money so when u subtract everything its $320. Buy con. ave and four houses. For which the rent is 450

Damn, and I was stil trying to digest this brick about Herodotus and this Loki

comes out wth Monopoly Money ????? K'moooon ... I've only one word .... bitch

Just some humor to balance the tension ...

Cheers

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