What the fuck is this? This is not a mother fucking game. Don't come in here with your weak ass circle measure like this is a fucking joke. Don't show up like you are ready to throw down. Do you know who I am bitch? Do you comprehend the mess you just started? I am a metrology engineer motherfucker. While you were sitting there, with your snide ass giggles like you just one-up-ed me, I was warming up my $45,000 vision inspection system.[1]
That's right, you just done started a war. You came in here to challenge a man that just got his fancy new machine back from NIST traceable 3rd party calibration TODAY[2] and was looking for an excuse to warm it up. You just tried to sucker punch am man who just so happen to have his mother-in-law at his house staying the week. I ain't got nothing to lose little man. That's right son, you walked up on a man who has raw talent to spare and all the time in the world. I may not have the drawing in person but I can sure as hell turn what I got into process image.[3] Then use a vision inspection system to bring it back into the computer. Then take that image and reverse engineer it into a 2d drawing. Then do some relative circularity measurements from my rendering. Take this shit bitch.[4]
Wait, what was that? Did you just challenge my core methodology? Oh no you didn't. Don't try to tell me I am making things over complex: taking an image file from the internet and printing it out, then turning it back into digital with some fancy 3D camera measurement system, then reverse engineering that into an engineering drawing. This isn't about GR&R and the process weakness of digital -> modified digital-> physical -> digital again -> 2d print -> relative measure. Motherfucker, did you miss the part about my mother-in-law? This is as complex as I can make it because that is the point motherfucker, I got a mother-in-law AT MY FUCKING HOUSE! This war will never end. EDIT: Yeah, it has been an hour. So what? I'm still here man with a little circle doodle. All I hear is some <chirp> <chirp> like you got better things to do. Well I don't bitch, I'm still here. MOTHER-IN-LAW, I ain't never going home. EDIT2: Oh shit. /u/kevie3drinks[5] responded with some week ass movie screen screen grab. I'm still not going, this isn't over. EDIT Final: I don't have a good apology for taking over OP's thread so I offer this. If Op sends me a PM, I will give him my address so he can send me his drawing. Then I will provide him with a proper measure that accounts for the waves in the paper, lighting, and camera setup. EDIT LEAVE MY POOR INBOX ALONE!: I thought I was done but I guess not since I work up to a bunch of messages. First off let me come out and say that in no way was my measurement accurate. It was total BS as was how I said it. Seriously people, you can not take a picture of circle at an angle, send it as a medium resolution image across the internet, then modify it, then print it out, then scan that printout into some fancy machine, then reverse engineer that into a drawing, and then final make assumptions about the circle from the drawing you made. It is total nonsense. Someone said my science was 3/10, that is way too kind. Total BS. My joke was that it was funny how serious we were going to take measuring this circle. If you notice my first post in the thread you will notice that I haphazardly put a reference circle next to the drawn circle and said it looked close. Then /u/kevie3drinks[6] posted a response with a even crazier response, at that point I said fuck it - going big and crazy. To be honest I figured a 3rd level comment of something in a small thread was going to get just a few views. Then /r/bestof[7] hit and things went crazy. The funny ones were people talking the accuracy of measuring seriously and that somehow I did some great disservice to the cause of truth by not taking into account the angle of the picture. That was the point, nothing I was doing was accurate or serious in any way. It was 100% delivery and 2% substance. Hell, I didn't even look at the final numbers before I posted then screen grab. The whole point was to be as silly and complex as possible. This is the type of thing that people that work in labs do to amuse themselves. It was great seeing lots of legit attempts to measure the circle and a few other metrology/calibration folks in the thread having some fun. The most disturbing hate mail I got was from people saying I should lose my job for abusing the company equipment. Seriously folks, it is just a super fancy camera system. Taking a picture on a camera is not abusing the machine, that is what it does. Perhaps it was not the best way to use it. BUT, I hope you remember from the post that I just got this thing serviced and I needed some excuse to test it out before trusting it for critical applications. TL;DR Sometimes it is not about the truth of what you are saying that matters, it is the presentation. You can be the best scientist or engineer out there but if you can not present your ideas in a way that captures your audience then you have nothing. Get your math right but don't forget that the communication is the most important part.