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THE PROBLEM WITH THIS BACKYARD EXPERIMENT IS NO ONE KNOWS,because it'll prove him wrong.
i did a backyard experiment myself:
32/32.95 = 0.97 = 3% error
35/36.59 = 0.95 = 5% error.
if you make sure to take the picture head-on, i think it's safe to assume an error of about 5-10%
1. THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE TWO OBJECTS,
2.THE ANGLE OF THE CAMERA
3.THE HEIGHT OF THE CAMERA FROM THE GROUND,
4.the angle of the object from the ground,
which are all very important in perspective measurement.
see the angle of the camera and the height from which the photo is taken will be very different from other photos ,so this pixel scale can never be applied universally to other pictures which are of different objects with planes tilted at different angles to the ground and the observer.
I have given a much more accurate method of projection of planes to their proper position
and comparing the hull width besides the turret on the plane,
which is perpendicular to the line joining both the crew hatch covers on the turret ,
to a known width of the crew hatch
and proved beyond doubt that ARJUn turret width is more than 3100 mm ,however you measure it, then why this pixel magic again?
Hilarious.
Look at the measurements made on different planes that are at different distances from the observer,
The turret width is taken in pixels at the turret front.
BUT THE HULL WIDTH IS TAKEN ON A PLANE WHICH IS WELL IN FRONT OF THE TURRET, and compared with same pixel scale giving raise to all kind of erroneous measurements.
same as the explanation below.
See the size of the main gun barrel hole and the size of the head of the man on the turret, they appear to be same if you take direct pixel measurement ,
But we all know the main gun bore is just 120 mm and the man's head should measure significantly more than that(in fact close to double),
That is the error when you try pixel measurements of two objects located at two different planes that are at two different distances from the observer in perspective drawing.
SO PEOPLE MUST STOP USING SAME PIXEL SCALE FOR OBJECTS THAT ARE AT TWO VERY DIFFERENT DISTANCES FROM THE OBSERVER.
SO TO AVOID THIS HUGELY ERRONEOUS METHOD WE MUST USE THE PROJECTION OF PLANES METHOD
The shadow of the turret falls on the hull at the third blue line from the top.
it is the place where turret's side wall projection on the hull would fall.
The blue rectangle drawn on the TC's crew hatch cover represent s the true length of the hatch cover .
This rectangle is projected in the correct plane on the hull ,
found out by the downwards projection of the line joining the two hatch covers on the turret top,
to the top of the hull.
This is the perspective drawing as far as I know,
If the side skirts are not included in the 3800 mm width of the hull the red line indicates that about half of the hatch cover length is the actual width besides the turret on the ARJUN hull.
IF the crew hatch measures 550mm it is about 275 mm.
SO the width of the turret is 3200 mm-(275x2=500 mm)=3300 mm,
If side skirts are included in the width about 4/5 th of the hatch cover length is the actual width besides the turret on the ARJUN hull.
That is about 0.80x550 mm=440 mm
3800-(400x2=880 mm)= 2900 mm is the width of the ARJUN turret.
Even if you take a worst case scenario of 2900 mm turret width,
1450mm is the distance between outter most side wall of arjun side turret and the turret centerline,
1200 mm is the distance between the two crew hatch centers,
1200/2= 600 mm is the distance of Tc' seat edge from the turret center line,
So 1450 mm-600 mm=850 mm is the space available besides the crew hatch center and the outer most side wall of arjun turrret,
If people agree on this point we can have an objective debate,
This 850 mm is the distance between the outer turret wall of the arjun and the crew hatch hole center,
The two crew hatch holes are located at the same distance from the turret center line is my estimate,
SO even if we give out a margin of error of 200 mm in my estimate the space available for armor on the arjun's side turret wall is 650 mm.
Whether it is perspective drawing or perspektive drawing these rules are universal,
All objects must be projected to the apropriatre place to get any fair estimate,
The crew hatch covers are opened and standing vertically,.
The blue line joining the base of the two crew hatch covers represent the proper axis on which the covers are standing vertically,
SO if we have to project the width of the crew hatch cover to the correct position on the hull,
We should project the axis line joining the two crew hatch cover base on the turret top to it's correct position on the hull top,
That's what I have done.
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