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Copyright: Clemente Perez (kLe) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 321 W: 103 N: 479] (1748)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-09-01
Camera: Canon EOS 400D, Canon EOS 17-85 EF-S, 67mm UV haze
Exposure: f/5.0, 1/50 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2007-10-20 3:55
Viewed: 362
Points: 10
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
On one of the gates of the "Sagrada Familia" temple in Barcelona we can find this square with numbers on it.
Actually it is not a sudoku game, but an artifice of recreational mathematics called magic square.
A magic square should use contain the numbers between one and n2 (n squared) and these numbers must be arranged in a way that the addition of each column, each row and the two diagonals gives always the same result.
The "magic square" (actually it is not a pure magic square) of the Sagrada Familia it based on a magic square created by the painter Albert Dürer in 1514, in an engraving called "Melancholia". This magic square of Dürer gives always a result of 34, using all the numbers between 1 and 16.
In the "magic square" of Barcelona four of the digits were reduced by one. It always gives so the total addition of 33, which was the age of Christ when he died. This is not a pure magic square because the numbers 10 and 14 are used twice and the numbers 12 and 16 are missing.
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interesting detail and good note,
TFS
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Hola Clemente,

Muy interesante ese cuadrado mágico. Estoy sumando todas las lineas, columnas y diagonales para conseguir el mismo resultado.

Un buen domingo para tí
Leonor

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  • pk4dk Silver Star Critiquer/Silver Note Writer [C: 41 W: 6 N: 48] (344)
  • [2007-10-21 3:24]

Excellent. Great detail and wonderful POV. Like comments as well.

Good note-i have one photo alike :)
Luci

Hola Clemente,

He visto muchas imágenes parecidas a esta y del mismo lugar y todas me gustan, creo que un motivo fotográfico muy interesante y que puede ofrecer grandes resultados, en esta ocasión incluir los números le da un aire diferente, espero algún día tener la oportunidad de capturarlos con mi cámara, aunque ya para entonces no serán tan sorprendentes.

Un saludo
José

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