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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wait... My mind was going the other way. Reducing the width of the building is just going to reduce the height needed to achieve the necessary slope.

But this looks like a flat foot anyway, so it would only need 3 inches of drop over 12 feet. Though you probably wouldn't go that flat.

As I side note, I also looked at the shadow more closely. Based on the sun position, Fox came by with with their helicopter right at, or shortly after, noon. That seems like too much of a coincidence to not be intentional. They wanted to catch the shadow at it's longest point.[/quote]

Shadows are not longest at noon.z[/quote]

They are if you're trying to maximize area of the shadows on the neighbor's property. [/quote]

Wrong. Shadows are longest at the beginning and end of the day. Do you get outside much? [/quote]

Did you look at the orientation of the houses?

Yes, the shadow would be longer at other times but much of it wouldn't fall on the neighbor's property then.[/quote]

You clearly don't understand how shadows work, and now you are claiming you know how they would work. [/quote]

The homes are mostly north/south of each other. Actually, the neighbor's house is a little northwest. The So the shadows are longer in the morning, but much of them don't fall on the neighbor's property, with the neighbor's own house and tree also shading the front and backyards. In the afternoon, the shadow mostly misses the neighbor's house.

If you want a sort of "worst-case" photo on the shadows, it's around noon in the winter. A little after so the shadow casts on the front yard and the sun is a little lower, but not so late that the trees block the sun (or for the shadow's direction to shift out of the yard).[/quote]

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