Final Stats?

I used this picture to estimate the relationship of the tower to MF and Magnum and this picture to realize that the three of them are in line with each other (before late1 posted the link to the satellite picture).

ed. sorry - URLS again!
*** This post was edited by jdubya 12/14/2002 10:28:30 AM ***

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Front Seat Rider said:
I am not sure why anyone would think that you cannot calculate they way I did based on the photos.

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I can, because you're not taking into account the fact that it's a fish-eye lens. To accurately calculate you'd have to know the focal length of the lens and factor in the curvature of the image.

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I used the same photos as late1 and the first one jdubya used. I did not notice any lense distortion but that does not mean there is none. I said that my measurements were not exact due to inprecise measurements on my end and the 3 objects not being in a straight line exactly. I guess lense distortion would also change things a bit but I don't think that in that picture it would be too much. But you are right that it is a variable the I did not account for. I think we are close on the height estimate. If 52.2' per level (plus more on the 8th) is off, I think that it may be a tad high.

Also the very bottom level (from the ground to the first catwalk) is slightly higher than the other levels. Early on when there were about 3 levels done I scaled some close-up photos of the tower and got 55 feet for the first section and 51 for the others. Some say the highest section is also slightly taller than the others and I agree. Say it is also 55 feet-

Then you have eight sections at 55+51+51+51+51+51+51+55. That equals 416 right there. Add about 8 feet above the "odd-piece"(see here and you get 424 feet. Nothing highly mathematical here but it can't be too far off.

That could very well be true. I got my height for each level by using MF as a ruler adjusted for distance and then dividing that height by the number of levels below MF. If the first level is higher, which makes sense to me, then some of my other number could be off a bit. But we should still be close.

Can we all just agree that it is, in fact taller than 415' and therefore is now the tallest rollercoaster in the world, then wait for the announcement?

Since nobody knows the exact difference in elevation between the land that MF sits on, the land that Maggie sits on and the land that #16 sits on, it's all going to be a lucky guess.

Last time I went to Cedar Point I don't remember everything being perfectly flat!

Get out your Topo Maps!

I'm up for that.

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Hi all, Oldrider here:

Try this all you hi math wizards, go to the pics of the parts in the lot. Get a shot of a piece of track laying on the ground,using the size of a parking space as a guide to lenght, get the best measuerment .Once you have what you might concider an accurate number, apply it to the photos you have and you will see that each level of the yellow tower is 1 and 1/2 pieces of track tall.Multiply that times the sections and you should have a really good idea what the height is .

P.S. are they giong to measure it from the mud now or the slab later???
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