Here I have some really awful examples of parabolic image recreation (see
p.gen). The first I made with full reflectivity- that sphere does NOT
exist in that poistion, what you see looks like a re-creation of it, via a
parabolic mirror. The second has transparency so as you can se the real
sphre, smaller and lower, and in the third I made a horrible line drawing
of what is going on.
-S
5TF!
This would probably have the best effect as a stereoscopic image. I've seen
one of these in the Boston Museum of Science and it's pretty cool, but depth
perception is needed for the full effect.
- Slime
[ http://www.slimeland.com/ ]
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So, is the upper "cover" a parabolic mirror, too?
I remember seeing one of these at Brentano's books in the early 70's.
Cool job.
Tom A.
You can still buy these things:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/parabolas.html
Catseyeman
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> stm31415 wrote:>>> #3>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------>>> So, is the upper "cover" a parabolic mirror, too?>> I remember seeing one of these at Brentano's books in the early 70's.>> Cool job.>> Tom A.
Thanks a bunch for making this model. There's no doubt now that "real"
images are generated by POV - cool!
You can still buy these things:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/parabolas.html
Catseyeman
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