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Thu, 17 Jul 2008

Topkapi

Topkapi Cupola

One of the cupolas in the Topkapı Sarayı in İstanbul, Turkey. In one of the inner rings is a certain asymmetry. I wonder why?

posted at: 01:05 | path: /photos | permanent link to this entry | 9 comments


Posted by Someone at Thu Jul 17 01:41:11 2008
The asymmetry is there on purpose : the makers of this masterpiece beliefed that only god is perfect and to drive that point home, they made sure their work wasn't...

Posted by Loic at Thu Jul 17 02:02:10 2008
I wish that those guys were still around, they would make awesome software developers.

Posted by Someone at Thu Jul 17 08:14:52 2008
@Loic : not sure. Good software developers are generally lazy and all about avoiding repetition. Quite the opposite I'd imagine from the workers on that cupola?

Posted by Anders Feder at Thu Jul 17 10:35:09 2008
OTOH, surely they picked the name "Top-K API" for a reason?

Posted by Quim at Thu Jul 17 12:39:10 2008
Perhaps knowing where is the north would give us an additional hint. Agree with Someone that this could be a reason. Still, they were trying to be 99.99% and this is why the position of that asymmetry might still indicate something.

Posted by Luis Medinas at Thu Jul 17 16:36:34 2008
By curiosity... is that real or it's multifractals ?
It looks great!

Posted by Lennart at Thu Jul 17 16:42:25 2008
The upper left tile is the real photographed tile. The other three are just mirrored copies.

Posted by Tobias at Thu Jul 17 18:22:18 2008
The flash glare gives it away, if anything. Besides, didn’t they also have Penrose-tile-like tiles somewhere in Topkapi?

Ya and the rain-gutter of the Kaaba, and the paper gowns of the early Sultans.

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