u/negamuse — reddlx

What is the purpose of this rotated window?

A few years ago I was biking around Berlin and found this unusually placed window. I know enough (very little) about architecture to think "well, that's not distributing weight correctly to be functional so I guess it's a little architect's joke, haha, only in Berlin" and so on.

The other day I randomly came across a picture of Aarhus cathedral, not going to link a picture here but easily googleable, and you can see the same thing, arched windows rotated 135 degrees dotted around the high reaches of the exterior.

Googling around wasn't able to confirm the purpose so I ask here, why is this a thing? And is it only contained to these two buildings, or was it a wider practice?

My only guess of what it could possibly be for is casting a light onto the floor, that when taking into account the angle of the sun the shape of the shadow is then orthogonal to the walls at a particular time of day that is meaningful. Which seems insane, but that's all I've got.

Please, if you know the answer to this let me know, or if you have a good guess (but let me know you're guessing so I don't spread incorrect explanations!) Thanks

u/negamuse — 7 days ago

▲ 1 r/sewingpatterns

Requesting a pattern in this style

Hi all. I love this style of dress but as a longer bodied woman I can never find one to fit. (Why so few boho designs for the tall? Its heartbreaking sometimes.)

So I'm looking for a similar pattern I can hopefully adapt but I've no idea where to start. To my untrained eye, it looks to be at least based on a somewhat classic shape in itself, but I've got no sense of the language to even begin searching for it.

This'll be my first foray into dressmaking, having only done simple tees before, and probably a bit ambitious but it has to be easier than drafting it entirely from scratch! Thanks

u/negamuse — 1 month ago

▲ 23 r/BloodOnTheClocktower

World building: when does it click?

So I'm a new player, having played a few games irl and now moving to the app to try and build my skills up to be useful. Everybody I've played with has been super welcoming and for an online game with open lobbies? Best vibes I've seen.

I'm loving playing but the big difference I've seen between long term players is the ability to build worlds. Every game I've played I'm lucky if I get a full grim, and when it comes to voting I'm basically sat there listening to players who seem to be juggling all the info into separate mental worlds effortlessly.

So my question is, when did that ability come for you? Did it ever?

I'm guessing part of this is being familiar with the characters but also maybe my newbie instinct to be more secretive than I should be means I'm not being trusted so much and not getting solid enough claims to work from, which is fair.

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u/negamuse — 3 months ago

▲ 21 r/StarKid

Lucky cancellation ticket from the box office

I know for 99% of people here you'll already know this, but I happened to be in London yesterday and thought "what the heck, can't hurt to see if they have any returned tickets at the box office". They did, and I got to see my first Starkid show, right in the center of the stalls.

So if there's anyone sad they missed out on tickets while they were on sale and you're in or near London anyway, hey, give it a go, you never know.

(Not gonna review the whole thing, nobody wants to read that lol but I do just want to say I've been going to see musical theatre for literally decades and this was the second most energetic and solid good vibes performance I've ever been to.)

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u/negamuse — 5 months ago

▲ 14 r/boardsofcanada

The hexagons in the Prophecy video might be Chladni plates

There's a fun experiment you can do where you run sounds through a metal plate with fine sand on it and the resonance makes these different patterns. They're called "Chladni figures"

I think the "scary hexagons" that pop up in the video for Prophecy might be being made by the same kind of thing, either using hexagonal plates or just cropping in a hexagon from a different shaped plate. But I think possibly real hexagons because of how the patterns stay within the outline.

Pretty cool if this is how they made that effect, especially with how the lyrics are talking about resonance

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u/negamuse — 5 months ago