Author Archives: dougaj4

Have you found this site useful?

Posted on 01/07/2012 by dougaj4

Here’s your chance to say thanks! My daughter needs support for her crowd funded film project; Just click http://www.indiegogo.com/DancingInFilm?a=553266 and have a look. Hey guys, So I’m emailing you all about a dance short film called ‘Emergence’ that I’ve been working on … Continue reading →

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The Daily Mail Song

Posted on 01/07/2012 by dougaj4

This has been around a long time, but I like it: Today’s count has 1,380,017 views, 16,914 likes, 208 dislikes. From this I deduce that either the overlap of the set of Daily Mail readers and the set of You … Continue reading →

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The Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore – Dimensions

Posted on 30/06/2012 by dougaj4

This post is a continuation from The Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence Different sources give a wide variety of different dimensions for the dome, but there seems to be reasonable agreement that the “across flats” diameter of the … Continue reading →

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Interpolation Update

Posted on 26/06/2012 by dougaj4

This post was prompted by a question at Eng-Tips.  The question was looking for ways to plot stress contours under a footing, which requires interpolation to find the depth where the stress is at the contour values, given stresses calculated … Continue reading →

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The Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence

Posted on 19/06/2012 by dougaj4

The dome of the Santa Maria del Fiore was the first dome structure of that size built since the Pantheon in Rome (126 AD) and the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople (537 AD).  Some sources say it is a little larger … Continue reading →

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