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three legs, because two would topple and four would argue about which floor is level
means A three-legged stand used to steady a camera, instrument, or other object that needs to hold still.
from From Greek 'tripous,' literally 'three-footed,' joining 'tri-' (three) and 'pous' (foot) — the same 'pous' that walks through 'octopus' and 'podiatrist.' The Greeks had real tripods long before cameras: bronze three-legged cauldrons and stands prized as prizes and temple offerings, most famously the seat at Delphi from which the Pythia delivered her prophecies. The word reached English through Latin 'tripus.'
- ancient flex
- Greeks awarded bronze tripods as prizes and temple offerings
- stable math
- three points always define a single flat plane
- oracle seat
- Delphi's priestess prophesied perched on a sacred tripod
- name origin
- Greek 'tripous' literally means three-footed
- never wobbles
- why cameras, surveyors, and stools choose three legs
manfrotto 055 — world's best-selling camera tripod since 1974, over 10 million units sold
gitzo systematic — professional carbon fiber tripod, costs $800-2000, used by nat geo photographers
gorillapod — flexible ball-jointed tripod with bendable legs, launched 2004, 5+ million sold