The Parthenon
The Ancients
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The Parthenon and the Optics of Athens
The Parthenon in reality looks like a balloon model of the Parthenon because it's bulging and fast in different places. So subtle that our eye can't pick it up but further away the Parthen on looks perfect and corrected because of that. And if you think about it, we're talking about point of a centimeter difference but every single aspect of that has to be built into the entire structure. I haven't got a clue of how you would even start thinking about doing that. Well that’s why I am not an architect.
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