On 17/08/2018 12:24, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> On 17-8-2018 12:15, Stephen wrote:

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>> What you say is so true.
>> I wonder how fast and at what elevation the ring arch would converge 
>> to a line.
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> The attached image is one of my early tests of the true scale Ringworld 
> model, with the shadow squares left out. It does not show the zenith but 
> you can partly extrapolate. It shows nicely I think why the Ringworld is 
> called the Arch by the natives.
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I get a similar view. I did an animation tilting the camera to the 
zenith. (The camera motion is not very good.)

https://youtu.be/hDSX1B8_8NI


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http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/thread/%3C4c24a930%241%40news.povray.org%3E/

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>>>> I remember it. :)
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>>> Still one of my references where Ringworld-building is concerned.
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>> No one's ever made a Discworld, have they?
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> Not that I remember. I think I wanted to start once, intending to use 
> elephant models of course, but it never got off the ground somehow.
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Making the topography would be interesting.

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Regards
     Stephen

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