The question was:
What shape must a piece of wood be to cast (depending on how its held)
shadows of a circle, square or a triangle.
And the answers were:
Mihoshi> You're evil... Mihoshi surrenders. WAAAAAAAAAAH ;_;
*chuckle*
White Wolf> Um... I'm a bit baffled. I could describe to you a peice of
> wood that would do this.... (A cylinder with heigth and
> diameter the same, sliced from top side to bottom on other
> side.) But I don't see how this is a riddle?
Not quite, as it wouldn't cast a shadow of a square.
Lizue> How about a flat piece of wood with three holes cut into it (one a
circle, one a square, and one a triangle)?
wrong - that would cast a shadow with holes of light in it, not shadows
of the right shapes.
Joenikki> No, I'd have to be a cylinder h = d, then imagine a line
> accross the diameter of one round end, and remove all of the
> material from both sides of the line to the tangent of the
> other end.
Yup.
> __
> / \
> |----| Top (Yes, it's supposed to be round)
> \__/
> ____
> | | /\
> | | / \
> |____| /____\
>
> Front Side
> Joseph Palmer
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