Inverse Square Law in plain English here

[movingex]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mtreini...pool-strobist/
http://strobist.blogspot.com/2007/06...-distance.html

[Dobick]

From the strobist article!!!!

But the Inverse Square Law still makes my eyes glaze over. Not that it is necessarily so hard to understand. (Although it is for many.) But because it just sucks all of the life and soul out of lighting.

Kinda like showing up at the hotel on your honeymoon night with one of those biological/plumbing textbooks from high school to make sure you can exactly figure out the precise plan for the evening's activities. Yeah, it may be accurate. But where's the creativity? Where's the experimentation? Where's the fun?

[The Philos]

It's really not that hard to understand:

I = Pr^-2

Then again I teach high school math.

[Dobick]

Personally, I have never had a problem understanding the concept, but I understand when people do. I just thought the quote above was absolute classic.

[movingex]

Originally Posted by ThePhilosopher

It's really not that hard to understand:

I = Pr^-2

[Daniel Bates]

Or,

I = 1/(Pr^2)

[bondarnes]

Not being informed to the highest degree of accuracy, I hesitate to articulate for fear that I might deviate from the true course of rectitude.

[Dobick]

Originally Posted by bondarnes

Not being informed to the highest degree of accuracy, I hesitate to articulate for fear that I might deviate from the true course of rectitude.

In short sir, I am a very dumb fish and do not know sir!

Wow -- that was a very ugly flashback all of a sudden, next thing you know, someone will be busting into my room at midnight with facepaint on telling me my buddies are dying, all while having the apocolypse now soundtrack blasting from some 15" cerwin vegas at the end of the hall way!

[Daniel Bates]

Y'all are both gonna get smoked!


Funny thing is, I actually know exactly what you're talking about...

[Dobick]

Daniel, do they still soap the hallways and ride the gumbies?

[Daniel Bates]

I would assume so... I didn't join, I just lived close to a bunch of 'em.