#3151: Window Screen
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[The text for the first panel appears above the panel itself.]
This weekend,
I had to make an oversized screen for a porch window.
[Cueball is looking out through a window with a straight bottom, slanting sides and a curved upper edge.]
[In each of the remaining panels, the text appears within the panel but above the illustration.]
[Cueball is shown pondering various problems involving geometry, engineering, and angles. There is occasionally text around them, which is illegible.]
It involved countless tiny problems, each somehow way harder than it should be.
Oblique angles. Curved edges. Noncoplanarity.
[Cueball with hair, looking at the same window covered by a bordered mesh.]
... I solved them all.
I measured precisely. I did trigonometry. I made custom parts.
And it fit perfectly.
No gaps, no ripples.
[Cueball is revealed to be sitting at a computer, typing a message. He still has hair.]
I know that your foundation normally limits its purview to physics, medicine, peace, chemistry and literature.
However, if you review the attached photo showing how well the screen fits into the...
(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)
Title text:The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine or Home Improvement or DIY