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caryatid · Boot Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 22 Location: UK

Could be Sente self-censoring until he trusts us more? Perhaps not very likely, but always a thought.

**Posted:** Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:11 pm

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mafalda_quino · Boot Joined: 25 Oct 2004 Posts: 20 Location: London, UK

Doing a google image search i came across a picture of London that reminded me of the one in IndexB.
I played around with it a bit (brightness/contrast and flipped it) and came up with the following, which make me fairly certain that it is indeed London.

**Posted:** Wed Oct 27, 2004 10:23 am

ustice

GREAT FIND! So it is confirmed that this London after all. Looks like the picture on google my be from the opposite angle. Any chance of locating the building.

**Posted:** Wed Oct 27, 2004 1:31 pm

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i dont see how that confirms london tbh....just skylines and sunset....

**Posted:** Wed Oct 27, 2004 2:48 pm

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mafalda_quino · Boot Joined: 25 Oct 2004 Posts: 20 Location: London, UK

**Posted:** Wed Oct 27, 2004 4:18 pm

Salkunh

its not the same....the perspectives are all wrong imo....

On the perplex original that you've put the red around the tall building is about half a mile or so behind the block of buildings also in the red...on the ones you've found and played with they are on the same axis if anything it looks as though the tall building in your copies is further in front of the other ones.

It also lacks the height of the other buildings entirely. they should at least be able to be seen shouldnt they?

**Posted:** Wed Oct 27, 2004 4:53 pm

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Nik_Doof

also, sorry to debunk...

the skylines in no way match up, i've composited the two images on top of each other, the background is the red box you marked of the match, and the front (the grayed area) is the picture u supplied...

Now, matching the tower to the tower, and look....theres a tower missing to the left of the picture, and also a few levels there...

**Posted:** Wed Oct 27, 2004 5:01 pm

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mafalda_quino · Boot Joined: 25 Oct 2004 Posts: 20 Location: London, UK

Oh dear...wrong again!
i noticed the differences between the pics, i just thought that maybe since the distance between the two shots is different, and the first one was taken circa 1998 the landscape could've changed slightly...Anyway! back to lurking for me i''spose! Embarassed

**Posted:** Wed Oct 27, 2004 6:53 pm

ustice

Don't forget that this is a difference perspective too. things are not going to match up perfectly. actuyally, I think that this if from opposite perspectives.

On second look, I don't know... it doesn't quite work... I thought so at first but there are too many discrepancies.

**Posted:** Wed Oct 27, 2004 11:06 pm

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Nik_Doof

if it was slightly off then maybe it could be right, but on that pic we're missing a entire building....so i dont think so.

**Posted:** Thu Oct 28, 2004 4:12 am

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I agree. I think it probably will be London, especially as the building in the foreground looks like the one I work in (it isn't, the design is similar though), but the photo comparison is not conclusive; vastly different angles and as Salkunh said, the two buildings in the red box are quite far apart, by miles I would say. Distances to tower blocks can be very deceiving.

It would be nice to know if it's London, but I think it will become clear in time, unless anyone comes up with any comparable picture in the meantime. So don't stop trying! Very Happy

**Posted:** Thu Oct 28, 2004 7:24 am

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Shoulder?

**Posted:** Thu Oct 28, 2004 8:44 am

phi · Boot Joined: 14 Jun 2004 Posts: 43 Location: Around

I mentioned this in another thread but I'm fairly sure that the picture is of london's south-east looking east, from somewhere in the battersea dog's home / Elephant & castle area.

I think the point of the image is, that the architecture combined with the �50 note points to the cube being in London.

Nohting deeper than that I'm afraid

**Posted:** Thu Oct 28, 2004 1:01 pm

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Ence · Greenhorn Joined: 19 Oct 2004 Posts: 4

I don't think they match up either.

If you brighten up the picture on the perplex site, there is too much detail in the buildings for it just to be a digitally created image. It must be a photograph of a real city. And as the project is based in London, they probably just stuck their camera out the window and photographed the view of London? Just an idea.

The building in the bottom right of the photo seems to be one of those big buildings with columns at the front. There are loads of these in London but if you look closer it seems to have a big glass arch on top, running the length of the building. Kind of like the arches you get on shopping centres in the UK (although I don't think it's a shopping centre).

Could it be a railway station or something? Can anyone else think of a building in London that looks like this? Or any other building in a major city?

I've attached the close up...

**Posted:** Fri Oct 29, 2004 7:08 pm

frantastic · Boot Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 12 Location: London

pink elephants

**Posted:** Sat Oct 30, 2004 5:10 am