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This is the Caravaggio painting 'The Decapitation(or Beheading) of St John the Baptist'
He has been accredited with being a user of the Camera Obscura. His paintings certainly do have a mathmatical correctness about them.
This is the only painting he signed , he signed his name using paint he uses to represent the bloody outflow from the ongoing severance of the head.
Its the third painting he did that associates with chopping heads off. Nice. A bit of a fetish going on there , perhaps!
Always strikes me that artists of any time seem to paint images of the past , fact or fiction , in the style of thier present day .
The story of the shot/ painting is that Herod wanted rid of St John , aka Henry VIII style and reason , and a situation was created where he could legitimately present St Johns head on a silver platter to some woman who on dancing well was allowed to choose a present for the accomplishment .
Not suprisingly ??!! she chose St Johns head ! it is what any fullsome dancing girl would go for if she could chose owt in the world from a powerful and rich King...
Herod was then duty bound by the promise to deliver , damnation ,what a waste of a perfectly decent Saint , ah well ,he must have thought , what will be will be !
Off with his head!
Religion eh ...good stuff !
:-)
PS I did not take this shot , I lifted off Wiki , I just wanted you to see it for completion of what is at the St John the baptist cathedral
I thought I needed a better conic section, so I set up a different render with shadows and a white background.
This is duplicated because I needed one that would be a good size for posting on internet fora.
You know, I think I would really like to study geometry more deeply, best yet as the mathematics of computer graphics. But I would want to study it à la carte, just choose whichever topics seem interesting and fruitful to me, without having to do things in the order someone else decided was best. No prerequisites either. Because if I have to know the math before I can use it then I will never use most of it, because I won't find most of it to be worth my time until I have an application to which it is an essential tool.
That's how I think math and physics should be taught, as the tools you need in order to construct your own video game.
More than 700 fourth and fifth graders from four school districts in San Joaquin County converged on the Stockton campus of University of the Pacific for the sixth annual Math Steeplechase. They were split into teams of five to six students each and each team had to solve six complex mathmatical problems with only 10 minutes per problem. The best scoring teams and schools received trophies. It wasn't all just math. Students also were taken on a scavenger hunt on campus and also played games with Pacific athletes.
You don't need X-ray eyes, or super intelligence, or need to be a gifted visionary nor a scientist or mathmatical genius to realise that this is so.
Polymers can be practical and silly! They come in all shapes and sizes... We'll made silly polymers and then, scientifically, compared each in the most important areas: slimy, stretchy, smelly, gooey, and goopy. We're took polymers to the next level!
Polymers can be practical and silly! They come in all shapes and sizes... We'll made silly polymers and then, scientifically, compared each in the most important areas: slimy, stretchy, smelly, gooey, and goopy. We're took polymers to the next level!
The East Midlands STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathmatics) Partnership held their Student Journalist Awards at the National Space Centre Leicester on Wed evening.
In the picture are students from the Humphrey Perkins School, Loughborough with their teacher Kaisra Khan and Andrew Morgan, Skills and Communications Director of EMDA.
Here I have taken the ellipse and foci produced by the intersection of the plane through the cone and have used it to make a little animation showing an alternative method of constructing or defining an ellipse. That is, by measuring a curve such that each point on its surface is the constant sum of the length of two lines reaching from that point to its two foci.
You know, I think I would really like to study geometry more deeply, best yet as the mathematics of computer graphics. But I would want to study it à la carte, just choose whichever topics seem interesting and fruitful to me, without having to do things in the order someone else decided was best. No prerequisites either. Because if I have to know the math before I can use it then I will never use most of it, because I won't find most of it to be worth my time until I have an application to which it is an essential tool.
That's how I think math and physics should be taught, as the tools you need in order to construct your own video game.
I expect most people have heard of the conic sections, the circle, elipse, parabola and hyperbola which can all be formed by slicing a cone with a plane. I've just learned of this geometric method which can be used to find the two foci which are a separate way of defining or constructing an ellipse.
It turns out that if you take two spheres, such that they are tangent to the surface of the cone on a circle, and also tangent to the plane slicing through the cube at one point, those points where each sphere is tangent to the plane will coincide with the foci necessary to construct the same ellipse by finding the curve that is the sum of the distance from any point on the curve to the two foci.
In this image only the ellipse, its outer edge, and the small green spheres are left which mark the foci/tangent points of the spheres.
You know, I think I would really like to study geometry more deeply, best yet as the mathematics of computer graphics. But I would want to study it à la carte, just choose whichever topics seem interesting and fruitful to me, without having to do things in the order someone else decided was best. No prerequisites either. Because if I have to know the math before I can use it then I will never use most of it, because I won't find most of it to be worth my time until I have an application to which it is an essential tool.
That's how I think math and physics should be taught, as the tools you need in order to construct your own video game.
From the website: Difficult to capture on camera! A sky blue base with a strong golden-yellow shift (like Finn's beautiful hair!) and golden sparkles. Can appear a light teal (more green) or a more blue teal.
Eye Shadow Ingredients: mica, carnauba wax, titanium dioxide, iron oxide, yellow lake #5, tin oxide, ferric ferrocyanide, ultramarine blue.
Mathmatical is NOT lip-safe, but is vegan!
Personal Comments: Part of the "A Boy And His Dog" Collection. This is a bright and beautiful green, but I noticed a slight stain on my arm while washing off the swatch. I recommend wearing this over a base (such as NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk) to help avoid staining your eye. I also didn't see the golden-yellow shift from the description. The swatch was done over Urban Decay Primer Potion and Fyrinnae Pixie Epoxy, and taken outside in direct sunlight.
www.indieknow.net/2013/08/collection-spotlight-boy-and-hi...
Notre Dame de Paris ('Our Lady of Paris' in French) is a Gothic cathedral on the eastern half of the Île de la Cité in Paris, France, with its main entrance to the west. It is the cathedral of Paris and the seat of the Archbishop of Paris. Notre Dame de Paris is widely considered one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture. It was restored and saved from destruction by Viollet-le-Duc, one of France's most famous architects. The name Notre Dame means "Our Lady" in French. Notre Dame de Paris was one of the first Gothic cathedrals, and its construction spanned the Gothic period. Its sculptures and stained glass show the heavy influence of naturalism, unlike that of earlier Romanesque architecture.
Notre Dame de Paris was among the first buildings in the world to use the flying buttress [arched exterior supports]. The building was not originally designed to include the flying buttresses around the choir and nave. After the construction began and the thinner walls (popularized in the Gothic style) grew ever higher, stress fractures began to occur as the walls pushed outward. In response, the cathedral's architects built supports around the outside walls, and later additions continued as such.
The cathedral suffered desecration during the radical phase of the French Revolution in the 1790s, when much of its religious imagery was damaged or destroyed. During the 19th century, an extensive restoration project was completed, returning the cathedral to its previous state.
Here's an interesting tidbit of information I found on Gothic architecture -
Gothic architecture itself emerged in 12th century France and was originally called "French Style." It was the dominant style between the 12th and 16th centuries, but was later mocked by some as being "Gothic"(as in backward and barbarian). The Gothic style is characterized by mathmatic precision, symmetry and a desire to reflect the glory of God through awe-inspiring architecture.
Some of the most distinctive features of the Gothic style of architecture were the flying buttresses, used to support the height of the buildings, and pointed arches (which actually originated in Assyrian and Islamic architecture).
The East Midlands STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathmatics) Partnership held their Student Journalist Awards at the National Space Centre Leicester on Wed evening.
In the picture, Sarah Ahmed of the Nottingham Girls High School is receiving her award.
With her are, Des Coleman, (left) the BBC weatherman, who was the compere for the evening.
Julie Owen of 3M, sponsors of the event and Andrew Morgan, Skills and Communication director of EMDA.
Polymers can be practical and silly! They come in all shapes and sizes... We'll made silly polymers and then, scientifically, compared each in the most important areas: slimy, stretchy, smelly, gooey, and goopy. We're took polymers to the next level!