When Arc becomes Line

............................................................................................................................. Vieuw: Astronomy Picture Of The Day Archive http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0905/iridescent_sladoje_big.jpg

A circumhorizontal arc. Horizontal rainbow. When rainbow takes a rest.

Windmills in the sideline of tour riders

Kinderdijkse windmills stand their timeless stand as tour skaters skate their marathon, double or half-marathon. If you want to see the whole lot:

link : http://www.weerstation-alblasserdam.nl/molentocht_alblasserwaard_2009.htm

Frozen lines

After 12 years the miracle has happened again: Hundreds of thousands of ice-skaters have left their marks in frozen lines

The only thing that really unites the millions of individual, presumptuous clayfooted Netherlanders is ICE and SKATING

Only then we are one people, one stupid happy family, with nothing showing on our faces but dumb grins and nothing but niceties , everyone helpful to everyone, sharing blisters, peasoup, sauages, chocolate milk and knowing one thing : only when it is deep frozen we master the waters of our wetlands, the eternally threatening SWAMP.

Hail to master FROST!

Flightlines and vanishing point

Flightlines represent a flighty perspective that has no vanishing points.

Soon enough though they will vanish....

Sunlight, straight lines of light.

I just call these sunlight-lines. Sun rays on a child's face.
Child taking first steps in the sunlight.

Poppy Lines for Ian Hristo

No, the poppy pod lower in this blog is not of the California Poppy. The picture shows you the Californian seed pod. (just about to burst). They are of the same family though,in fact everything is the same except for genus and species. Gardeners call the California Poppy : Eschscholzia to avoid misunderstanding.

..... California Poppy:Kingdom: Plantae, Division: Magnoliophyta, Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Ranunculales Family: Papaveraceae Genus: Eschscholzia Species: E. californica ..... Papaver: Papaver – Iceland poppy, Oriental poppy, Opium poppy, corn poppy . Eschscholzia – California poppy . .....

Opium Poppy: Kingdom: Plantae, Division: Magnoliophyta,Class: Magnoliopsida,Order: Ranunculales Family: Papaveraceae Genus: Papaver Species: P. somniferum

Skyline with Black Moon.

A black full moon at sundown. No. Can't be.

A skyline formed by the roofline of a three storeyed building's roof. A bird. Duck or dove, not sure.

To be true it is a lost balloon over the Hague City working a nipt escape towards the beach.

Up- and- Down- the- Wall Railway Line

The shortest railway line on earth. The Up- and- Down- the Wall Line. A tiny work of art by The Rotterdam artist Frans Stuurman

( http://www.galeriemokum.com/gallery/show_gallery?gallery_id=107 ).

Material: iron wire

The Trans Siberian Railway-Line. The Longest?

No. The T.S. R. is a network.

The Trans-Siberian Railway or Trans-Siberian Railroad (Транссибирская магистраль, Транссиб in Russian, or Transsibirskaya magistral', Transsib) is a network of railways connecting Moscow and European Russia with the Russian Far East provinces, Mongolia, China and the Sea of Japan. The Trans-Siberian railway is often associated with the main transcontinental Russian train that connects hundreds of big and small cities of the European and Asian parts of Russia. At 9,288 kilometres (5,772 miles), spanning a record 15 time zones and taking several days to complete the journey, it is the third-longest single continuous service in the world, after the Moscow–Pyongyang (10267 km, 6380 mi) [1] and the Kiev–Vladivostok (11085 km, 6888 mi) [2] services, both of which also follow the Trans-Siberian for much of their routes. The route was opened by Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovitch of Russia after his eastern journey ended.

Two Surf-Lines

Two surf-lines. The lower shows tourists on the beach near Krabi, Thailand, just seconds before the tsunami of 2004 hits the beach.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake

The upper surf-line shows children at the beach of Scheveningen gathering waste in exchange for free surf lessons.

How many white Lines?

How many white lines in this white rectangle?

> How many white lines in this rectangle?

> How many white lines?

How many miles to Babylon?

Three score and ten. Can I get there by candlelight? Aye, and back again. If your feet are nimble and light, You'll get there by candlelight.

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Holes of the Poppy Pod

So you see.... a neat little row of quadrangles under the flat cap; a circle with radiuses.

A little globe of a house with windows like in a skybox.

Wheel on the Poppy Pod

The ' lid ' of a poppy pod shows that the spikes of this ' wheel ' have lenght but also breadth. So you can't call them lines but linear they are and concentric in a natural circle. Spikes.

The number of spikes on each poppy pod's head is not consistant . This one has got 14 , but there are others with 11, 12 and thirteen.

Wonderful to see that when when the seeds are getting near being ripe little windows open up

right under the lid of the pod. A neat regular row of holes to let the seeds escape.

Those holes are in number always equal to the spikes.

Lenght without Breadth

In two dimensions, two different lines can either be parallel, meaning they never meet, or may intersect at one and only one point. In three or more dimensions, lines may also be skew, meaning they don't meet, but also don't define a plane. Two distinct planes intersect in at most one line.While Euclid did define a line as "length without breadth" , he did not use this rather obscure definition in his later development.______________________ < Lenght without breadth * *

Power-lines Collapse

Collapsing giants:

An electricity pylon or transmission tower is a tall, usually steel lattice structure used to support overhead electricity conductors for electric power transmission.

On Jan /12 / 1998 the power of nature prevailed over man -made power constructions. See what happened to the proud lines in the lower image : In Canada and North-East U.S. hundreds of Power pylons collapsed under the weight of glazed frost.

In Nov / 2005 the same thing happened in Germany. (upper image) Broken and collapsed giants

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In the material world the pure single line does not exist

All lines we see as lines are in fact no lines at all, but the intersection of planes, surfaces, flat or curved ; the contours af a cilinder or a sphere or any other object. No matter how thin a thread, it has substance, measurement, the only pure line is in our minds.

A stanza of four lines, the Rubáiyát.

The Rubáiyát of Omar khayyám

The author of the original collection of rhymes was

Ghiyáthuddin Abulfath Omar bin Ibráhim al-Khayyámi: Omar, son of Abraham, the tentmaker.

He was an 11 century mathematician. Died in his birthplace Naishapur in 1123. Edward FitzGerald, born in Suffolk ,1809, translated the work in four-lined stanzas or quatrains. In Five following Editions. Rewriting parts each time.

This 'quatrain' for the summer 's moment:

And look- a thousand Blossoms with the Day

Woke- and a thousand scatter'd into Clay

And this first Summer Month that brings the Rose

Shall take Jamshýd and Kaikobád away.

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( "Rubaiyat" (derived from the Arabic root word for 4) means "quatrains" ): ------------

Ah! The days of roses!

Single line drawings, Botticelli

Little known is the series of approx. 90 drawings made by Sandro Botticelli in the 1490-s to the Divina Commedia (Divine Comedy ) Divina Commedia by Dante. Dante Alighieri Done in single line with perhaps a silver point. As the vellum was not properly prepared, the drawings were fading rapidly. So a certain part is (often partially) inkted over by the artist and probably assistants.

In a way Botticelli was the first "Comic strip" artist ; his continuing story takes Dante, guided by the spirit of Vergilius Virgil , through Hell and Purgatory up to Heaven where the spirit of Beatrice take over the guide's task.

He could be regarded as the remote fore- runner of modern times ' strip' drawers such as Hergé.

Hergé : ligne claire

The image shows Dante and Vergilius approaching the gate of Hell , passing through it and starting the long journey up to Heaven.

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Stretching for Roses

Ah!!! The beanstalk has outgrown the rigid bamboo stick.

Now free to go it has passed the Lineair Recursive stage

and reaches for the roses. Fare well! Let it go!