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5 Jul 2024 07:56:37 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Spinner colony (again)  
From: Mike Horvath
Date: 24 Feb 2015 18:54:59
Message: <54ed0f53$1@news.povray.org>
On 2/24/2015 5:11 PM, Alain wrote:
>> I got some very good suggestions in this post:
>>
>> https://forum.geogebra.org/viewtopic.php?p=139143#p139143
>>
>> The problems now are that:
>>
>> 1. Should I collect the light from the direction the ship is heading, or
>> extending from the rotating ring? The ship will not be facing the sun
>> 100% of the time.
>> 2. I'm running out of room to place the mirrors.
>
> Place the mirrors on pivots, with some actuators, mounted on rails that
> run the length of the hull.
> That way, you can place the mirrors in the most effecient way.
>

What sort of pivots? Wouldn't that cause the mirrors to point away from 
the agridomes? Do you mean tracks of some sort?


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