Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc (KBLB)

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Why spend a couple of hours getting your camera and pile in just the perfect position to disguise the amount of silk produced when you can photograph the pile from a vantage point approximately parallel to the ridge line, revealing a larger quantity of silk produced?

Your assuming that there is something devious about Kim's intent? Well that's way out of character for you to accuse Kim of that..

I assume KBLB desperately wants to disguise the actual quantity of silkworms produced in this crop.

Once again there is that assuming word again by none other than DimesForShares himself!

There is only one viewpoint where the ridgeline cannot be detected: perfectly centered on the pile from left to right and perfectly perpendicular to the ridge line. The only way significant depth can be hidden is from one precise viewpoint. And that only happens when the ridge line is perfectly straight.

Yeah it's called a one point perspective. There are also two point and three point perspectives. I know all about perspectives, camera views for 3-D modeling for perspective views and I taught architectural delineation courses and computer rendering, so thanks for the index card analogy. It was quite eye opening in it's simplicity. I also taught myself Photoshop which is used to facilitate correcting and enhancing the quality of the final computer perspective. My knowledge of Photoshop makes me seriously question your calculations. Your previous AI info about pixel size and your use to calculate the size is marginal at best. The jpeg was taken most likely with an I-Phone and by no one close to being a professional. I know the default settings on mine takes jpegs that dimensionally are huge.... meaning that the resolution is most likely quite high so that is probably true of this photo. A good rule of thumb that I would tell my students is use nothing lower than 300 dpi (dots or pixels per inch) which is what most likely gave you your conversion factor. Most likely this photo resolution is much, much higher making your calculations way off. Plus the photo doesn't show the floor cutting off the angled edges of the pile. One can only be assumed a height (there is that word again) at which I sure you had no problem taking a guess or two. You don't see the bottom of the pile so how do you calculate a width/diameter? Another assumption on your part. That's a lot of assuming going on don't cha think.

The fact is you have a rank amateur's knowledge of digital image resolution and perspectives all most likely courtesy of AI. I hope reading my posts will give you knowledge sorely missing. By the way take that index card and fold it one more time and put it where the moon doesn't shine. End of discussion.