Student Solves Sol Lewitt Drawing Assignment in Pseudocode

She just analyzed the syntax tree of the sentence. Where I'm from, that's a normal school day in middle school. Of course this is a long and convoluted sentence, but the process is not more complicated, it's just longer.

Re: Student Solves Sol Lewitt Drawing Assignment in Pseudocode

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Post by raverbashing » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 6:31 AM UTC

jzelinskie wrote: post #4

FOURTH LINE is missing a colon and there are dashes missing all over the place! That pseudocode would never compile!

Well, as I like to say, pseudocode is for pseudoprogrammers

But in this case it it appropriate

Re: Student Solves Sol Lewitt Drawing Assignment in Pseudocode

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Post by Camillo » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 6:33 AM UTC

I ran OCR over the text (using the first website I could find that takes image urls directly), so you don't have to.

A quadrangle which is formed and enclosed by four lines, the first of which is drawn from a point halfway between a point halfway between the center of the wall and the upper left corner and the midpoint of the left side and the upper left cor- ner to a point halfway between the midpoint of the top side and the upper right corner, the second line from a point halfway between the start of the first line and a point halfway between the midpoint of the top side and the upper left corner to a point halfway between a point halfway between the center of the wall and the lower left corner and the mid- point of the bottom side, the third line from a point halfway between a point halfway between the start of the first line and the end of the second line and a point halfway between the midpoint of the left side and the lower left corner to a point which is on an axis between the lower left corner to a point halfway between the midpoint of the right side and the upper right corner where a line drawn from the center of the wall to a point halfway between the midpoint of the right side and the lower right corner would cross that axis, the fourth line from a point equidistant from the end of the third line, the end of the second line and a point halfway between a point halfway between the center of the wall and the midpoint of the bottom side and a point halfway between the midpoint of the bottom side and the lower right corner to a point halfway between the start of the second line and a point where a line would cross the first line if it were drawn from the midpoint of the right side to a point halfway between the midpoint of the top side and the upper left corner.

-Sol LeWitt, 1974

Re: Student Solves Sol Lewitt Drawing Assignment in Pseudocode

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Post by Camillo » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 6:39 AM UTC

Camillo wrote: post #9

I ran OCR over the text (using the first website I could find that takes image urls directly), so you don't have to. A quadrangle which is formed and enclosed by four lines, the first of which is drawn from a point halfway between a point halfway between the center of the wall and the upper left corner and the midpoint of the left side and the upper left cor- ner to a point halfway between the midpoint of the top sid…

BTW, the text as given on the page is incorrect and cannot be parsed. It also doesn't match the solution.