Category: Applied math
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Answers To “Is This Picture Level?”
A few weeks ago, I asked a few questions about a picture of me on the Turner Riverlink. I even offered a reward for the best answers. Here are my answers. First Question NO, the picture is not level. The photographers’ usual reference point for getting a picture level is the horizon. One of the…
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My Midnight Rainbow Quest – Tougher Than I Thought
I just looked a little deeper into some rainbow geometry and discovered that this challenge could be a lot harder than I first imagined. But for those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about, here’s a little history – The Facebook Quiz This all started with one of the little quizzes I…
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Quiz: What Paper Size?
Here’s another math problem inspired by real life! Each correct answer could earn you five dollars ($5) off any of our products or services (to redeem in person, just print and show your certificate). Good luck!
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Reflections – My Answer To "What's Wrong . . . Ver. 2"
I recently posed the question “What’s Wrong With This Picture”blog about a modified landscape photograph of a foggy sunrise in Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge in Goodland, Florida. It turns out Deborah Gray Mitchell, one of the commenters, was right; the image was upside down. To be more precise, I flipped the image vertically…
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Using Multiple Moulding Widths In One Frame
revised 12/31/2021 This article is the first of the “Weird Wood” seriesintro. In it we show how to build a picture frame using four strips of moulding that aren’t all the same width. Figure 2 uses a different width for each piece of moulding. But we were forced to use only three different sizes in…