(08-21-2010, 02:18 PM)Deekun Wrote: As for the exact location please re-read and think in terms of multiple dimensions not 2D side view as you are looking at it. You are skipping one very precise word that will clue you in as to how to draw it precisely. Just imagine you are a home builder and the home owner is telling you step by step how they want the home to be built... soon enough you will reach the conclusion.
Hello Deekun
I have put some thought in to this. Since I work with computer graphics it was easy for me to quickly visualize what you are describing here. It is true that we are working from 2D angles, however as I did some quick experiments, the result came out the same. See below...
Here we see a green pyramid that I created with a 51 degree slope, same as the Great Pyramid (GP). In front of it I have a 2D representation of four equal sized triangles.
(perspective view)
Here is the same setup, but viewing it directly from the side (orthographic view):
(ortho view)
Now here are the same 2D triangles projected on to the pyramid. Note: you cannot simply rotate the stack of triangles using the bottom as a pivot point and get the same results, they must be projected. If this is what you were implying was the correct configuration I must disagree, because in that setup the pyramid face is no longer equally divided in to four triangles, and creating a pyramid out of them would not work.
(perspective view)
Looking again through the orthographic view, we see that it is identical.
Here is the result of rotating the triangles rather than projecting them, you can see where the problem arises. (It was my hope initially that this would resolve the discrepancy between Ra's description and what we observe... alas, no).
Is this what you had intended to convey, or did I misread?
Love and Light,
L.