Vegas Sphere UPDATE: we fixed it!

Engineer here. I have no doubt that there are several versions of the drawing for this wall between the architectural drawings, engineering drawings, contractors drawings, as built drawings, and they may very well show different alignment due to differences in font used or other architectural, engineering, or construction changes made to this wall.

With all those lines of digits, I assume the fire extinguisher is there in case of pi row maniacs.

You know, I'm kinda even happier about them putting back that small 2 that was omitted before than about the big fixed PI digits image.

As a graphic artist that does a lot of design work for physical spaces, I am eternally grateful that nothing I work on is ever going to receive the same level of scrutiny as this, haha. I've done so many hacky little cut-and-paste jobs and (even as a math nerd) I can absolutely see myself making this same shortcut. I know that if this was my workplace, for some reason the only version of that pi wall design that anyone could give me is an (outdated) version that's been flattened and outlined, (i.e. the text isn't editable anymore). Given the change of font on the updated website, this might actually be the case 😂

You MUST make a long video on the sphere. Im sure there are a lot of easter eggs there. I hope they get in touch and officially invite you to make a video with them.

It's so satisfying that they've changed it, no doubt as a response to your audience. Sidenote; The developers and designers of the site got started waaaaay before the final design for that wall (or indeed most things within the building) was finalized. So yes, they've undoubtedly used an earlier InDesign/Illustrator/cad file. We developers tend to use early design files/mockups during development and it's shocking how often those files end up being part of the final version. I've been a web developer for over 20 years now and even though the final TODO is always to clean up old mockup imagery, there's always something that is missed. It's usually not that big of a deal though.

And of course to honour Matt they have renamed the older version "The Parker Pi".

I am almost disappointed you didn't went on and estimate the length of that corridor based on that photo. I was sure that it was where this was going.

WOW! I did not anticipate this happening! I am glad they cared enough to address this.

The restoration of the missing '2' digits in the arches is so satisfying! May the gods of mathematics bless all involved in this effort who somehow are still active despite the building project having been completed.

It's all well and fine that they fixed the website, but what about all the damage it caused? How many interstellar spaceships will miss their targets because someone relied on this version of Pi?

You should show the Feynman-point. It has to be somewhere on that wall, because it's just after the 762nd digit, where you'll find 6 consecutive 9s.

I'm a vegas local and I was hoping I could just swing by on the way home from work and walk in and try to convince staff to let me take a picture of that premium suite, but it looks like you need a ticket to even enter the building. the next event is something called "the sphere experience," which does actually seem pretty cool, the next showing is oct 29th but tickets are a bit expensive lol. I'm glad someone else local was able to get a picture. still might check out the experience this weekend tho

Matt Parker is so strong that he influenced them to change their website

I find it pretty funny that they made an entire new image for the website when, at least in my eyes, they could have just had the right edge fade to black to imply that the text continues off the page until it wrapped around for the second line

I still think the spacing between numbers might not always be perfectly even, for the sake of making them align at the right edge.

As a graphic artist, I think they just grabbed some interesting looking numbers and thought "no one's going to check that!" And as a graphic artist having been in the field for over 35 years, I know they always do.

You need the tail end of the wall too - to see if they truncated the design when they changed the wall length or if they wrapped the text correctly.

You know you’ve made something amazing when communities on the internet want to fix the tiny details ❤️

I was so sure this will happen. Congratulations for having such an influence!