P3D Two prize winners?

[Tom Deering <tmd@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Speaking of http://www.deering.org/winner1.gif, Bruce says:
>The judging committee has, upon reviewing the evidence, concluded that
>Deering's "swoopy colored lines" in a "polar-coordinate circular slide
>rule" narrowly meet the contest's cryptic criteria of human-powered,
>non-Bercovitz/Spicer violating, far-point distance at least from 1
>foot to infinity base calculation.

Yeah!  Wooo-hooo!  <throws laptop down in victory dance.>  I'm having a
fireplace installed so I'll have a mantle upon which to display my half of
the Springsteen prize.  Of course, I'll have to give half of my half to
John Bercovitz.

>This is not however first-rate
>work - it is a passing grade merely.  I certainly have no intention of
>using the thing, and neither does anyone else I assume.

Yeah, it's junk.  But it's useless *because* it meets the contest criteria.
The "1 foot to infinity" part is just too much depth. Just can't jam all
that good math onto a little wheel.  (And the log scale did nothing except
make the 1/30 crowd hopeful.)

HOWEVER, I did develop a couple nice charts that are thouroughly useful for
Kodak and Realist users.  Real nice, in fact.  I might laminate these
little babies and sell them at NSA in Green Bay.  Or save yourself the $50
and print them out yourself.

http://www.deering.org/curves.html

These graphs will win the next Springsteen Award, if he words it right.
You'll like em.  (Note: I wrote this message before I heard about the new
contest.  Oops.)

>each winner will receive one half of the stereo card.

(When Bruce says he'll split it in two, I assume he means *horizontally*!)

Tom Deering
Holder of the Springsteen Trophy for Applied Stereo Mathematics



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