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2005 Photography competition entries

Boeing 747 Invariance
Colin N Jones: 'Boeing 747 Invariance'

Colin N Jones
'Boeing 747 Invariance'

The depicted polytope shows the smallest region in which we can guarantee to keep the velocity of a Boeing 747 during landing: "the minimally invariant set of the longitudinal axes of a Boeing 747".
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