Что я видел

[cema]

Photos from a phone. No postprocessing, so-so quality.

A door in Glouster, MA.


Fall in an office park.


Inside MIT Stata Center (hosting EECS department and more). Beautiful meaningless architecture.

This is inside the building, yes. Beauty is in the eye etc, but meaning is how usable it is. Not very. I wanted to get down to the ground floor from the fourth by stairs. One led me only to the third floor. Another led me to a point in between the third and fourth floors where a small elevator deck was located. I got down by elevator, but what would I do in case of a fire?

A Lisp machine in MIT Museum. Should have used a real photo camera.



Bottom line: the phone camera sucks. Just 2M pixels, poor optics, and little control overall.

Update. More photos in the comments.

Comments

[eta-ta.livejournal.com]

Or, that's easy.
When you're inside the room, and there is a fire and smoke around you, you can't see where the lever or a knob on the door is. Also, when panicking, people tend to collect at the door, with little space for the door to open into the interior of the room. So the fire exit doors by code are swinging OUT of the affected room and INTO the safe enclosure. They also have bar hardware, which you don't have to see in the smoke - you just push at the bar, and it releases the door (or the panicky people behind you push YOU into the door, and it still opens). The bar is long enough (reaches across the door, which by code is a minimum of 34" wide), so in whatever spot you happen to push it, even if you';re close to hinge side, the door will open and let you into the fire-protected enclosure.

[cema.livejournal.com]

Yes, I remember those doors at fire exits. One of the first impressions from the US. (Another one was a different design of the toilet.)