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Michigan artist David Barr (1940-2015) created the 'Four Corners Project' [1] exhibited at the Smithsonian, where he inscribed a regular tetrahedron into a tran
by niftich 10y ago
Michigan artist David Barr (1940-2015) created the 'Four Corners Project' [1] exhibited at the Smithsonian, where he inscribed a regular tetrahedron into a transparent globe. In choosing his points, he used his personal criteria:
1: Each of the 4 areas needed to be untouched by western technology
2: One of the points had to be on Easter Island
3: Each of the 4 positions needed to be on land
His effort was written about in a 1982 issue of InfoWorld magazine [2], and the mathematical background is fascinatingly detailed in the paper 'Mathematical Geography and Global Art: The Mathematics of David Barr's "Four Corners Project"' by Sandra L. Arlinghaus and John D. Nystuen [3].
On a different website, Sandra Arlinghaus further details [4] David Barr and John D. Nystuen's math and even includes a link to a still-working .kml generator for Google Earth [5] that can be used to help with this task.
[1] http://boingboing.net/2016/03/29/the-amazing-4-corners-project.html http://boingboing.net/2016/03/29/the-amazing-4-corners-proje...
[2] https://books.google.com/books?id=DjAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA12&lpg=PA12 https://books.google.com/books?id=DjAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA12&lpg=P...
[3] http://www-personal.umich.edu/~copyrght/image/monog01/fulltext.pdf http://www-personal.umich.edu/~copyrght/image/monog01/fullte...
[4] http://www.mylovedone.com/IMaGe/Monograph1/PlatonicSolids.html http://www.mylovedone.com/IMaGe/Monograph1/PlatonicSolids.ht...
[5] http://montalk.net/coordinates.htm http://montalk.net/coordinates.htm
- madcaptenor 10y agoThere's at least one more distinct set of dry-land points, in Canada, Chile, Kenya, and Australia, which was found by Gram Zeppi in a Quora answer: https://www.quora.com/How-can-we-determine-whether-there-are-four-points-on-dry-land-forming-a-regular-tetrahedron-inscribed-in-the-Earth https://www.quora.com/How-can-we-determine-whether-there-are... . An approximate map, using Nairobi, Santiago, Brisbane, and Yellowknife (Canada) as the points: http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=nbo-scl-bne-nbo,+yzf-nbo,+yzf-scl,+yzf-bne http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=nbo-scl-bne-nbo,+yzf-nbo,+yzf-s... . (My interest is a bit different from Barr's, in that I'm trying to get the points to be near civilization, not far from it.)