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Measured Distances Across the UVU Plaza

Aerial satellite photo of a university campus with red and blue circles, yellow and blue measurement lines and labels reading 143 yards, 137 Yards out, 78 yards, Bartholomew and Hall of Flags

What This Image Shows

An aerial satellite photograph of the campus, overlaid with a red circle, a larger blue circle, and yellow and blue measurement lines running out to labelled points. The buildings are named on the map — Engineering and Transportation Technologies, the Woodbury School of Business, the Department of Information Systems — with the Hall of Flags marked at the bottom.

The measurements are the content: 143 yards to one pin, 137 yards out to another, and 78 yards repeated at three points around the central red circle, with a purple pin labelled Bartholomew. Those distances are the inputs every acoustic and trajectory argument in this cluster depends on, and putting them on a single sheet is what makes those arguments checkable.

The named buildings matter too, because the dispute over where the shot originated is a dispute about which of these structures had a line of sight to the stage and which of them anyone was seen on or near. The candidate positions are examined at Shooting Locations and Losee Center; the acoustic use of these distances is at Acoustic Two-Event Split, and the plaza itself at Courtyard.

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