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8 Jul 2024 06:13:52 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Spinner colony (again)  
From: Mike Horvath
Date: 13 Feb 2015 15:43:26
Message: <54de61ee$1@news.povray.org>
On 2/13/2015 3:20 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> On 13-2-2015 0:07, Mike Horvath wrote:
>> On 2/12/2015 3:28 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>>> I have been wondering about those six circular windows. While rotating
>>> do they not create a kind of blinking effect?
>>>
>>
>>
>> The effect is probably similar to the one experienced by farmers living
>> near and under wind power turbines. It is probably annoying. I could
>> replace the holes in the outer shell with a single cylindrical groove to
>> remove the effect, but it wouldn't make structural sense.
>
> If structural sense is the only thing that matters (and not a view to
> the outside) why not provide smaller holes set on different circular
> paths between inner and outer shells, so that they do not coincide?
>

I'm not sure I understand. Having holes of any kind would still produce 
blinking I think.


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