Photo Contest - Run Around In Circles (5/5-5/11)

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This thread revolves around a photo contest themed on the geometric shape of a circle. Participants are invited to submit photographs that prominently feature circles, with specific rules regarding submission and photo editing. The discussion includes various interpretations of the theme and the nature of circles.

Discussion Character

  • Contest-related
  • Exploratory
  • Conceptual clarification

Main Points Raised

  • One participant shares a photo of the astrogater from the Enterprise, noting its circular features.
  • Another participant describes the effort involved in capturing a photo with a 300mm lens without a tripod.
  • There is a discussion about whether a spiral qualifies as a submission, with a clarification that it does not meet the criteria of being in a single plane.
  • Participants explore the topology of circles, with one expressing confusion over the number of topologically different kinds of circles present in a specific context.
  • A participant mentions a dish called 'Timballo di anelletti alla Siciliana', relating it to the theme of circles.
  • There is a playful exchange regarding the terminology used to describe a specific shape, with participants engaging in light-hearted banter.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants express differing views on what constitutes a circle and the criteria for the contest submissions. The discussion includes both agreement and disagreement on specific interpretations of shapes and their topological properties.

Contextual Notes

Some participants express uncertainty about the definitions and classifications of circles and related shapes, indicating a lack of consensus on these points.

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Run Around In Circles

This week, our theme is on the geometric CIRCLE. Your photo must show, as its main subject, something that has this geometric shape. It may contain just one circle, or multiple, overlapping, etc. circles.Contest Rules:

1. Any digital photo or digitally-scanned photo relevant to the theme will be accepted within the contest period. In case there's a gray area, or you're not sure if the picture is suitable, check with me first.

2. Please resize your digital photo to no more than 800 x 600 or 600 x 800 pixels. You may also crop your picture if you wish. You are also allowed to adjust the brightness and contrast of your picture but these should not dramatically alter the look of the picture. But other than those, any form of picture editing or modification is not allowed. This is a photo contest, not a picture editing/special effect contest. You may add a watermark or your name/nickname to the photo for identification purposes.

3. Upload your photos to any of the photo servers such as imageshack or photobucket. Then post it the relevant contest thread and link your picture using the img command. PM me if you do not know how. Alternatively, you may simply upload your image file to PF, and then have the full image displayed in your post.

4. Only ONE picture per member per contest. Once a picture is posted, it cannot be changed other than a total withdrawl by that member from that week's photo contest. Exceptions will be made for modification to comply with the rules, such as resizing.

5. At the end of the contest period, I will open a poll and every PF member can vote for the picture they like best.

6. Note that in case we have a large number of entries, I will do the polling in more than one thread. If that's the case, you can vote in each of the polling threads. The photos will be assigned in the polling threads in the order they were submitted.

7. The photo of the subject must be something that you took directly, not via in intermediary medium, and not taken by someone else. Unless otherwise noted, a photo of another photo, painting, print, etc. does not qualify.

8. You can use a picture only once. Once it is used in a contest, it cannot be reused in another contest.

9. Please post only pictures meant for submission in this thread. Photos not meant for submission must not be posted in the contest thread. Posting of more than one photos by a member may result in an automatic disqualification from the week's contest.

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The astrogater on the navigation console for the Enterprise, had a lot of circles . This is the original used in the series. The picture was taken at the Star Trek exhibit in Seattle.
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I was amazed to be able to click this with only a 300mm lens and sadly not even a tripod. The amount of laying down on the grass trying to stay still represents the effort gone into this picture.
 

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hyunxu said:
It's that a microscopic lens?

Close- it's a phase contrast aperture ring for a phase contrast lens, I think it came out of an Axiomat. There's no part number, just the designation 'f.Epiplan 100Ph', I picked it up off ebay a while ago and have never seen anything else like it- can't even find an image on the interwebnet. I like that there are no 'spider' supports- it's a clear ring mask on a mirrored piece of glass.
 
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one observes pretty many circles if one is beneath an R7 rocket with 4 boosters
(and if it's not being launched at the moment)
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AlexCaledin said:
and if it's not launched at the moment
:oldlaugh:
 
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Does the spiral count?
 
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Borek said:
Does the spiral count?

No. The line has to be in a single plane.

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ZapperZ said:
No. The line has to be in a single plane.

Archimedean spiral is in a single plane.

But I will look for something else.
 
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Final day to submit your photo for this contest.

Zz.
 
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I thought there were three tpologicallly different kinds of circle here. Then I thougt no, two. Now I see them. Now I don't. Three. Two. Three.
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What's that called, a Cheerionut? :woot:
 
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epenguin said:
I thought there were three tpologicallly different kinds of circle here. Then I thougt no, two. Now I see them. Now I don't. Three. Two. Three.View attachment 225574
Two. The flat-bottomed component of the topology doesn't count as a circle... :smile:
 
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jtbell said:
What's that called, a Cheerionut? :woot:

It's called 'Timballo di anelletti alla Siciliana' (anelletti = little rings); there are many pages about it on the net, mostly recipes for the many variations. I heard there is a type of pasta used only for it.
 
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berkeman said:
Two. The flat-bottomed component of the topology doesn't count as a circle... :smile:
Imagine a circle running round the top - the highest points. I struggle To imagine how it can be continuously defo Med into one of the ringlets, and vice versa.
 
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epenguin said:
Imagine a circle running round the top - the highest points. I struggle To imagine how it can be continuously defo Med into one of the ringlets, and vice versa.
You talk funny...

:smile:
 

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