Million Dollars...baby
I had a million dollar idea and I'm going to write it here trusting that nobody is going to steal it. ...I hope you're sitting down for this! Ready? It's a Sistine Chapel puzzle! But wait, there's more! This isn't going to be some ordinary run of the mill jigsaw puzzle. This is going to be a scale model Sistine Chapel puzzle that will cover every square inch of any room in your house. They're going to have to be custom made to fit your room, but it will transform that room into your own priceless replica of the Sistine Chapel. The technical challenge of it will be to size it up to any shaped room. I'm thinking I can do it by getting a 360 degree panoramic picture from the center of the chapel. That will be the template. Say, for instance, the chapel is in the basic shape of a cube. I will take the cube and fit it into a sphere (with all 8 corners touching the sides of the sphere) and then extrapolate onto the sphere whatever is visible from one point inside the cube. Then once I have that sphere (which will be severly distorted because of perspective) I can resize it to accomodate your room (which will be a different sized cube than the chapel itself). The only real problem is that the room will be wickedly distorted unless you are positioned in the right spot. Now I know that hardly anybody is looking forward to spending years peicing together a puzzle that big, so for a few extra bucks I will send you the puzzle slabs already put together (but jigsawed so it will look like you spent a thousand hours on it). Then you just glue them to the wall and commence the praying. The Sistince Chapel is really the tip of the iceberg though. I could do Grand Central, Taj Mahal...anything! So, million dollar idea? I'll be laughing all the way to the bank! I just have to open a jigsaw workshop or something. Who's with me? Jan?