pweedas said...
This one's interesting. Not so much for the pattern itself, even though it is really good, but look at the symmetry in the areas where the crop is flattened.
I find it hard to believe that some plodders jumping around on swash boards would get the crop flattened in such a symmetrical way over such a big area. Specially if it involved a number of people. They would need to make a map of which way to flatten every bit of the crop and although they could do that, it's a bit hard to imagine they would bother.
Also, it's hard to believe that they could make such an intricate pattern in the dark without a small error in symmetry somewhere.
On the more free form images it would be hard to spot an error because we don't know what they intended, but on a symmetrical image, anything which is not symmetrical can be assumed to be an error. Can anyone spot any in this pic?
Very interesting.
Except that that's the whole point pweedas. They
do bother. After all, why just go around flattening out a rough circle? Any old plodder could do that. It takes a bunch of dedicated and clever plodders jumping around on swash boards to perform a lovely symmetrical pattern. So people set their sights high and do bother.
It is man made. Just because we here can't imagine how they could do it, doesn't mean someone else isn't more clever. As others have said in this thread, have a look at
circlemakers.org/ for example.
