I’ve run into a strange question, and it seems like the proceedings might make for a good opportunity for me to refine a description of the incorporation of data into architecture. I was looking at a particular equation and it occurred to me that many people might not easily grasp the logic of it, whichContinue reading “Shopping for a Pyramid”
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A Few Further Comments on Tikal’s Palace of Vertical Grooves
Some of these comments might not have lasting value – the difference is interesting between the first version I wrote of the previous post, and the second version I wrote the next day after some new possibilities were realized – but it seems possible for some progress to be made and more observations to beContinue reading “A Few Further Comments on Tikal’s Palace of Vertical Grooves”
The Palace of the Vertical Grooves, Tikal: Foreword
The Palace of the Vertical Grooves, Tikal Encouraged by what I believe may be major successes in the interpretation and understanding of the Bat Palace at Tikal, I decided to take another look at “The Palace With the Vertical Grooves” at Tikal, also known as the “Palace of the Facades With Vertical Grooves” and StructureContinue reading “The Palace of the Vertical Grooves, Tikal: Foreword”
Bat Palace, Tikal: Further Explorations
For convenient reference, Andrews’ plan of the Bat Palace again. Room 3: I was looking more carefully at Room 3 of the Bat Palace last night. I’m intrigued with it because it of its raw ratio between total height (room ht 258 cm + vault height 1.67 m = 4.25 m) and length of 6.76Continue reading “Bat Palace, Tikal: Further Explorations”
The Bat Palace, Room 10
In the previous post, we looked at the layout and basic data for the rooms of the Bat Palace at Tikal, and explored the question of this Mayan structure’s mysteriously recurring width measurement of 1.73 m. In my experience, such redundancy in Mayan designs is rare, suggesting the measure recurs because the architect has anContinue reading “The Bat Palace, Room 10”
A Breakthrough at the Bat Palace at Tikal?
Talking about some of the wondrous mathematical discoveries made at Tikal (that is, working with data from Tikal) tends to make me wistful for the site. One should hope to find more of their splendid “Wonder Numbers” lying about in the architecture. I’m skeptical that we’ve found all of them. From the data that IContinue reading “A Breakthrough at the Bat Palace at Tikal?”
Wereshnefer vs Piwalker: Round One (Postscript Added)
In the previous post, we took a first look at the 30th Egyptian Dynasty coffer of Wereshnefer, courtesy of photographs and data from the Metropolitian Museum, including pixel measurements I took of one the photos of the coffer lid in hopes of being able to extrapolate further data from the width and height provided. CofferContinue reading “Wereshnefer vs Piwalker: Round One (Postscript Added)”
Short Reports 3
Alan Green Many thanks to seanoffshotgun at GHMB who posted links to some of Alan Green’s videos on YouTube. I haven’t looked at the one on the Fine Structure Constant yet – that could be stretching the limits of ancient technology a bit and I have (probably sordid) tales to tell about Michael Morton’s explorationsContinue reading “Short Reports 3”
The Vesica Piscis Revisted
I’ve been looking at a lot of things since last post. I’m still trying to grapple with ancient metrology as described by some classical ancient authors. There has been robust discussion on GHMB featuring such luminaries in metrology and mathematics as as Jim Alison, Mercurial, molder, and magisterchessmutt, aimed at seeing how much truth thereContinue reading “The Vesica Piscis Revisted”
Short Reports 2
For the second round of Short Reports, we seem to have some diverse topics that, in a timely fashion, may have some interconnection. The Mysterious Eclipse Year Even for as much as we are learning about the Eclipse Year and how it may be represented and recorded through measure and proportion, it continues to holdContinue reading “Short Reports 2”
Luke Piwalker 