Barbury Castle Crop Circle

In 2008, the following crop circle was discovered in Britain:

An empty circle lies in the middle, and then, in a jagged manner, a line moves outwards into larger circular segment, and so on to the end. The entire crop circle is composed of circular segments, leading outwards into an even bigger circular segment, for a couple of complete rounds.

Clearly, there must be a meaning to it, and it didn’t take long to solve. If you were to join those jagged parts together that would form a straight line, you’ll get this:

Notice that the black lines all follow the jagged, non curved, straight lines. The red line doesn’t, but divides the remaining part into two. The angle formed between any two adjacent lines is 36 degrees, or 1/10 of a 360 degree circle. This is not so conspicuous in this picture due to the way the photo is taken.

So what?

Well, the lines cut the all the circular segments into many sections. And if you start counting how many sections the circular segments have been cut into starting from the innermost circular segment, you get: 3141592654.

Which is also the value of Pi to the 10th significant digits.

If you look at the first picture, you’ll notice that there’s a dot beside the jagged line from the curved segment representing 3 and that representing 1. This refers to the decimal point.

A picture to illustrate this in a clearer manner:

It’s mind blowing because I tried to design something like that, but I couldn’t. Not to mention, to create one at the magnitude of a crop circle.